Lina Masri

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Staff Data Scientist at Accenture | ex-Emirates Group

Accenture
Abu Dhabi, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
8+ years experience
London Business School Dubai
English, Arabic
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Overview

Based in Abu Dhabi. I work on fraud detection at Accenture. Caught $3 million of fraud in the first year of the new models. Taught SQL to 88 non-analysts. Before that: Emirates Group and Swvl.

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Skills
graph analyticsanomaly detectionPythonSQLLightGBM
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Co-writing a case study about fraud detection - looking for a co-author

Project
A case study about fraud detection - looking for a co-author
Skills needed
Python, Frontend
Time commitment
Weekends
Outcome
Small product with real users

No money involved, just a good project. Async-first.

Abu Dhabi, UAE · remote OKsqlanomaly detectionlightgbm
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Experience

  1. Staff Data Scientist
    Aug 2023 - Present
    Accenture · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 27%.
    • Taught SQL to 157 non-analysts.
  2. Senior Data Scientist
    Dec 2020 - Aug 2023
    Emirates Group · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Built the trust & safety models now used in 4 product decisions a quarter.
  3. Data Analyst
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
    Swvl · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 44%.
  4. Data Scientist
    May 2018 - Oct 2019
    du · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Caught $4 million of fraud in the first year of the new models.

Projects

Write-up: fraud detection in practice
2025

A long-form guide to fraud detection for people starting out.

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Education

  1. London Business School Dubai
    EMBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. Cairo University
    BSc, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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