👋 Hello! I'm Omar. At one point I made a living as a software engineer, in the computer graphics / geospatial industry, first at Cesium, then at Snapchat.

Since June 2024 I have been working as a science writer / independent researcher on memetics1. My work is currently funded by a grant from Analogue Group & a grant from Kanro.

I also teach & mentor as a volunteer at CodeDay. And host a monthly "Presentation Night", a non-academic lecture series where anyone in the community is invited to learn something & come teach us.

I live in Ithaca, NY. I grew up in Egypt.

1 It's the science of how ideas spread (comes from "gene" -> "genetics", "meme" -> "memetics"). See: