Amin Shennan.
Now at TM R&D, MMU and CourtIQ
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Amin Shennan

Generative AIComputer VisionMedical Imaging

Most AI problems aren't really AI problems. They're data problems.

That idea is behind most of what I do. I'm Amin, an AI engineer and researcher based in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. I teach computers to understand pictures and video. Start wherever looks interesting.

The Researcher

Helping AI learn about a condition it has barely seen.

I'm a Graduate Research Assistant at TM R&D, Telekom Malaysia's research arm, and master's student at Multimedia University since March 2026. Before that, a B.Sc. in Data Science at MMU.

what my research is about2026 – now

Some babies are born with clubfoot, where the foot turns inward. It's treatable, and catching it early matters.

AI could help doctors check it faster, but AI learns from pictures, and for a rare condition there are very few. So I'm using AI to create realistic new ones, and working with orthopaedic doctors to keep only the images they agree look right.

If it works, the next person building a tool to help these children won't have to start with almost nothing.

AI-generated baby foot, dorsal view, showing curved lateral borderDorsalCurved lateral border
AI-generated baby foot, lateral view, showing rigid equinusLateralRigid equinus
AI-generated baby foot, plantar view, showing medial creasePlantarMedial crease
AI-generated baby foot, posterior view, showing empty heelPosteriorEmpty heel
AI-generated baby foot, anterior view, showing lateral head of talusAnteriorLateral head of talus
None of these feet are real. They come from an early test, where an AI made them from written clinical descriptions alone: one for each of the five views doctors photograph, showing the sign that view is used to check. None has been checked by doctors yet; that comes next.
how doctors measure it

Six signs, each scored 0, 0.5 or 1

Doctors grade clubfoot by rating six signs on the foot; the total shows how severe it is and how treatment is going. So an AI image can't just look like a baby's foot. Each sign has to be there at the right level, or a tool trained on it learns the wrong thing.

Drawings of the six Pirani signs, each shown at score 0, 0.5 and 1: curved lateral border, medial crease, talar head, posterior crease, equinus rigidity and empty heel
HCTM (UKM) · TM R&D

A problem from real doctors

The research was proposed by doctors at Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (UKM), and it's sponsored by TM R&D.

ISIRA 2026 · UTeM · Aug–Sep 2026

Reviewing other people's research

I was invited to review five papers for a research conference, my first time on the other side. It changed how I write my own.

publications · in progress

My first paper is on its way

A Framework for Synthetic Data Generation and Quality Evaluation in Healthcare AI Development: A Concept Paper

Google Scholar ↗ORCID ↗ResearchGate ↗
The Engineer

Teaching computers to watch sport.

Computers can already see a match. I'm teaching them to understand it.

the company · futsal first

Match video in, analysis out

CourtIQ is a Malaysian startup that turns ordinary match recordings into heatmaps, player movement and performance breakdowns for court sports.

my role · Sep 2026 – now

Finding the moments that matter

As an AI and computer vision engineer, I work on action spotting: finding the exact moment of every goal, shot or tackle in a full match.

  1. 01 · data

    Clean footage in

    Building the pipeline from labelled footage to training data, split so tests are honest.

  2. 02 · models

    Train and compare

    Fine-tuning the models and benchmarking them against each other.

  3. 03 · tuning

    How sure is sure?

    Deciding how confident a model must be before it calls a moment.

  4. 04 · analytics

    From moments to numbers

    Turning detected moments into match stats, like who scored and who assisted.

A whole match goes in. The moments that matter come out, each pinned to the exact frame.temporal action spotting · annotation pipeline · fine-tuning · threshold tuning
  • Sep 2026 – nowAI & Computer Vision Engineer, CourtIQ.
  • May–Oct 2025AI Automation Engineer, Aurorise AI. Building the systems that let small businesses take bookings and reply to customers automatically.
The Analyst

Where my career started: making data make sense.

Before AI, I was a data analyst. It's still where most of the real work happens.

AFC dashboard, Results page: wins, draws and losses for each team, with filters for tournament, edition, stage, group and date
The Results page: every team's wins, draws and losses, filtered by tournament, stage and date.
  • Jul–Oct 2023Data Analyst, Asian Football Confederation. My first real job, and a football fan's dream. I built a dashboard that brings live data on players, teams and matches into one place, and people at the AFC were using it before my internship ended.
  • Nov 2023 – Jan 2024Data Analyst, SRKK Group. Reports for a company's finance and operations, from pulling the raw data to the final dashboard.
  • 2024–2025Freelance. Written reports and the presentations that go with them, plus small data projects for clients.

What it taught meThe gap between a working model and one that actually gets used is almost always about how the data is structured and communicated, not the algorithm.

The Builder

Things I've built to learn.

Projects from university and my own time, each starting with a question. All of them are on GitHub.

Can a computer tell a real photo from a fake?A model that sorts pictures into real, AI-made or edited. It's right about 95 times out of 100.Try it ↗Can AI read a science paper for me?My final-year project: an AI that turns a long research paper into a short summary, trained on 200,000 papers.See it ↗Can a computer understand Arabic sign language?Arabic is my first language, so this one was personal. It finds the hand in a picture, then reads the sign, and compares four kinds of neural network to see which reads it best.See it ↗Can a camera find you a parking spot?From a single image of a car park, it counts the cars, finds the empty spaces, checks who parked badly, and even sorts cars by colour.See it ↗What's a footballer worth?Many players in the FIFA 22 data had no release clause listed. I estimated the missing values for 19,239 players from their stats.See it ↗Is this review happy or angry?A team project that reads 23,486 online shop reviews and decides how each customer felt. My part was one of the three models we compared.See it ↗
Community

A home for Sudanese students at MMU.

I'm Sudanese, and in 2023 there were 70+ of us studying at MMU with no structure representing us. So I founded the Sudanese Cultural Society (SCS), with a constitution, committee and roles from the start, because I'd seen student clubs collapse when their founder left.

2023–2024 · while I led it
60 → 300+participants during my year
~400at our largest event
RM2,500raised together for Sudan

Cultural events, educational sessions and charity drives. Official representation to the Embassy of Sudan, onboarding new students every semester, and work with Sudanese societies at other universities.

2024 – now · after me
2K+followers on Instagram
1K+at its biggest event so far
33committee members today

After one year I stepped down, as the constitution said. The presidents after me took it much further.

24/25Ahmed Elshareif25/26Altyeb Abdalmahmoud
scsmmu.my ↗
The SCS committee together at MMU
SCS committee at MMU
Traditional Sudanese dress on stage at a cultural night
a cultural night on stage
Amin Shennan speaking with a microphone at the SCS welcoming night
welcoming night
Anyone can start something. The harder question is whether you built it to last, or built it to need you.from my LinkedIn, on handing SCS over

Speaking and teaching

I enjoy explaining things, whether to a hall of students or one person at a time.

behind most of these

Presentations & PowerPoint

I design my own slides, from the first draft of the deck to standing in front of the room.

Amin Shennan presenting
to Sudan's Minister of Higher Education · 2024

Speaking for Sudanese students

The student speech during his visit to Malaysia, raising the problems Sudanese students face.

tutoring · 2024

Teaching machine learning

One-to-one tutoring in machine learning fundamentals, from the basics up.

to students at MMU, UoC and IUKL · 2023–24

Society events

Speeches at SCS events, including the Sudanese iftar, and representing the society at other universities.

Off the clock

When I'm not working, I'm usually outside.

Where I recharge.

favourite weekend

Hiking & camping

Trails, a view at the top, and a night in a tent. My favourite so far: Gunung Datuk in Negeri Sembilan.

Amin Shennan sitting on the summit of Gunung Datuk
at the summit, 885 m
Amin Shennan rock climbing up a limestone wall on a rope
on the rock face
Amin Shennan smiling under a helmet lamp inside Gua Tempurung
inside Gua Tempurung
Amin Shennan on the pitch in a pink kit during a night match
match day
The team in pink kits with medals at the MMU Super Cup
MMU Super Cup
on my nightstand

Reading

I love reading. Two books, if you want to know me better.

reading now
موسم الهجرة إلى الشمالSeason of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
the one I keep recommending
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
10+sports tried so far
  • What I play most often these days.
  • Right back. I was captain of the team. It's also the game behind my first job, at the AFC.
  • Keeps me healthy, and clears my mind.
  • A place to slow down and appreciate the easy times.
  • Camping
  • Caving
  • Rock climbing
  • Bouldering
  • Tennis
  • Badminton
  • Golf
what I do regularlytried, and enjoyedclick a sticker for its story