Insaf Ismath is an AI/ML Engineer and Researcher with 5+ years of experience in AI research and engineering, based in the UAE for the past 2.5+ years, currently at 2PointZero, an energy and consumer investment platform under International Holding Company (IHC). He holds an MSc in AI from MBZUAI (Rank 2/36, GPA 3.95) and has published at top-tier AI conferences including EMNLP 2025 and CVPR 2026.
At 2PointZero, Insaf designs and ships production-grade AI systems across a consumer and energy portfolio: a geospatial intelligence platform right-sizing a 134-branch salon network, a conversational workforce benchmarking agent for portfolio companies, a real-time avatar voice agent for a C-suite event, and a portfolio-wide rollout of 8,000+ custom GPTs. He takes problems end-to-end, from scoping with stakeholders through design, implementation, and rollout, and is skilled across the full generative AI stack alongside classical ML and scalable data-led solutions.
His vision is to build and lead at the point where business strategy and frontier AI converge. Insaf gravitates toward problems where the technical solution is inseparable from the business context. Outside work, he's usually on a long run, a football pitch, or a padel court.
