Omar holds a bachelor's and master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University. He defended his master’s thesis “Defining Input Tumor Cell Phenotypes for Microphysiological Systems of Cancer” in May 2023. 

At 17, Omar was granted his first non-provisional patent relating to a method for unlocking a car with a smartphone using near-field communication and biometric authentication. He subsequently authored a second non-provisional patent which was also granted by the USPTO. 

All during high school, Omar funneled this intellectual property into a startup, CarBe. He has experience pitching to the C-Suite of Fortune 500 companies, venture capital firms, accelerators and incubators, as well as in pitch competitions. He has started the process of selling his patents to a global smartphone manufacturer as of spring 2023.