# Sabih Bin Wasi

> Sabih Bin Wasi is the co-founder and CEO of Stellic, a higher education platform for degree planning, advising and academic operations. Raised in Karachi and educated at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, he developed the idea from his own course planning difficulties. His collaborators included Rukhsar Neyaz, Jiyda Moussa and Musab Popatia; the platform’s name honors adviser Mark Stehlik.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Stellic
- **Organizations:** Stellic, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; minor in Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
- **Known for:** Forbes 2020 30 Under 30, Education, with Rukhsar Neyaz (announced December 2019)., Carnegie Mellon Tartans on the Rise, 2024., Co-author of CMUQ@Qatar:Using Rich Lexical Features for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter, SemEval 2014.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Built a spreadsheet to organize course prerequisites and future semesters.
- **2014** — Co-authored Twitter sentiment analysis research; won first place and best poster with Rukhsar Neyaz at CMU-Q’s Meeting of the Minds.
- **2015** — Graduated from CMU-Q; the team participated in QSTP’s XLR8 program and developed its student project into a business.
- **2017** — Stellic rolled out at Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus; early clients included CMU and Tufts.
- **2019** — Stellic announced a $3.1 million seed round; Sabih and Rukhsar were named to the Forbes 2020 education list.
- **2022** — Stellic announced $11 million in Series A funding led by Reach Capital and received a Gates Foundation grant.
- **2024** — Named a Carnegie Mellon Tartan on the Rise.
- **2025** — Returned to CMU-Q with fellow founders for a January panel; university coverage reported over a million student users.

## Achievements

- Forbes 2020 30 Under 30, Education, with Rukhsar Neyaz (announced December 2019).
- Carnegie Mellon Tartans on the Rise, 2024.
- Co-author of CMUQ@Qatar:Using Rich Lexical Features for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter, SemEval 2014.
- Co-recipient of first place and best poster for Twitter Sentiment Analysis at CMU-Q’s 2014 research symposium.
- Co-founded a platform that CMU-Q reported served more than 100 colleges and universities in February 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Published The hidden cost of college isn’t money—it’s time and opportunity in eCampus News, listed in his public author portfolio.
- **2026-02** — Presented at EDUCAUSE’s February 12 campus technology modernization webinar alongside University of Virginia CIO Kelly Doney and Princeton CIO Daren Hubbard.
- **2025-12** — Featured on episode 308 of The Higher Ed Geek podcast discussing degree management and student-centered design.
- **2025-11** — Appeared on Scholarships360’s Office Hours with Will Geiger to discuss college pathways.

## Links

- Website: https://www.stellic.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabihbinwasi

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