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إياد ملاح
Data & AI · Game Design · Sleight of Hand
English·Français·العربية
A student putting machine learning to work on famine warning and healthcare forecasting, building games that 900,000+ people have watched — and performing the occasional impossible thing with a deck of cards.
01 / About
I build technology that looks after people — and games that remind them they're not alone.
I'm Iyad Mallah — Lebanese, and still in school. I chase the version of AI that earns the hype: at GE Healthcare I built forecasting that helps medical equipment reach the patients waiting for it; at Quantcube in Paris I'm prototyping satellite-and-economic-data models that flag food insecurity and humanitarian risk early enough for someone to act.
The rest of me belongs to game dev and magic. I've recruited and led some 30 developers across two teams and five countries — building a community-formation world engineered with game theory, and an Unreal Engine 5 movement game with realistic momentum physics that has pulled 400K+ views on TikTok, with another 500K+ on my edit account. I compose and produce my own music, perform guitar live, and have practiced sleight of hand since I was nine — because wonder is a transferable skill.
And the year I spent teaching English and computer skills to construction workers taught me more about people than any dataset ever will.
02 / Experience
Two summers, two countries, one rule: if a model's prediction doesn't help somebody act, it's just math.
Studied food production across Brazil, Ukraine, and the US, developing and testing a model that predicts potential food shortages worldwide from farmers' crop yields — AI built to spot hunger before it becomes a headline, so the people who can intervene get a head start.
Built an AI model helping GE predict distribution channels for life-saving machines into emerging countries, with anomaly-weighting logic that kept the forecasts honest — because behind every prediction is a hospital waiting for equipment.
Founded a software development company and personally recruited and hired every member of a distributed team spanning Turkey, the US, Romania, England, and China — shipping two games and building the online communities around them.
Shadowed the firm from the inside — watching how capital decisions actually get made, and learning how much of finance is really about reading people.
Taught weekly English and computer-literacy classes to construction workers for a year — because the people who build a city's skyline deserve to be taught its tools too.
Mentored my school robotics team, preparing members for national challenges — passing down the same obsession that got me here.
03 / Selected Work
04 / Programs
Summers spent collecting tools — machine learning, entrepreneurship, the science of emotion, and one very cold mountain.
A week in the Swiss Alps built to test us: trained for and climbed Dents du Midi — 10,688 feet of it — conquered a fear of tight spaces in the caves beneath the mountains, and canyoned through glacier-cold river water. Resilience, it turns out, is trainable.
Studying the science of emotion — how feelings drive decisions, teams, and communities. I brought the cards, naturally: close-up magic was my icebreaker of choice on campus.
Where the two halves of my work formally met: data science taught as something you ship, not just study.
Led a team from raw idea to finished product and pitched it live to YPO entrepreneur judges — placed top 3. The smart pacifier project above was born here.
Built a housing-crisis model for California predicting home-purchase costs for low-income families — machine learning pointed straight at the affordability gap.
My first formal deep-dive into machine learning — the summer the math behind the magic finally clicked.
Learning to speak fluent AI before it was a job title.
My first university summer — where the supervised stock-prediction project began, and where I learned that rigor is a habit, not a talent.
05 / Craft
01
Python, Lua, GDScript, Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints. Machine learning, forecasting, prompt engineering, and UI/UX design — code is the fastest lever I know for moving real-world problems.
02
My first passion. Two games, two teams: a community-formation world built on game theory, and an Unreal Engine 5 momentum game with realistic physics that has drawn 400K+ views on TikTok. Games are empathy engines — they let people practice being human, together.
06 / Off the Clock
The spreadsheet version of me is upstairs. This is the rest — the cards, the strings, the songs.
01 · Since Age 9
Studying magic since I was nine, in the lineage of Dai Vernon, David Berglas, and Shin Lim. I have performed at birthday parties and at a Harvard summer program — but mostly, magic is how I turn strangers into friends. And yes: the favicon of this site changes when you are not looking.
02 · Since Age 9
Playing guitar since I was nine — Trinity College Level 5, performed on real stages, still practicing like I am behind. I write and produce my own pieces end to end; a few of them live in the next section.
03 · 500K+ Views
Half a million views of pure visual rhythm. Editing taught me pacing, tension, and payoff — the same grammar as magic, just on a timeline instead of in your hands.
04 · Outside
PADI Open Water diver, tennis player in defiance of the heat, Duke of Edinburgh Silver — and one Swiss mountain at 10,688 feet that taught me resilience is trainable.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
For the learning that only happens when you leave the comfort zone — again, and again, and again.
Cyberpunk 2077
Stay loyal to your values, even when the whole city is telling you not to.
Persona 3 Reload
It romanticises ordinary life — and makes every single day feel worth counting.
07 / Compositions
Original pieces — written, performed, and produced start to finish. Guitar in hand since age nine; the production habit came later and never left.
Arrythmia
Original — written, performed & produced by Iyad Mallah
Encanta Del Hueco Mundo
Original — written, performed & produced by Iyad Mallah
Montagna
Original — written, performed & produced by Iyad Mallah
Ghosttown
Original — scored for one of the studio's games
08 / Contact
If it involves building things that look after people — or a deck of cards — I'm interested. Reachable in English, French, and Arabic.
contact@iyadmallah.com