Haroun Ahmed

Haroun Ahmed

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Studied Symbolic Systems (AI) at Stanford…

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    Palo Alto, California, United States

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Education

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    Stanford University

    Activities and Societies: Stanford Symbolic Systems Society Executive Board (President), CS+Social Good, Graduate Life Community Associate Program, Graduation Speaker

  • Activities and Societies: Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (1825), Society for Cognitive Science, International Relations Organization, Nu Rho Psi, Echols Scholarship, Echols Mentor Program

  • Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Group (Chief Financial Officer), Investment Banking Group(Cofounder and Vice President), McIntire Mentor Program

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Publications

  • Transformers, Humans in Disguise: Applying NLP Based Computational Techniques to Deliberative Democracy

    Stanford Digital Repository

    This project seeks to apply a scalable, NLP based computational mechanism to automate
    portions of the work done by the Center for Deliberative Democracy(CDD) in their
    Deliberative Polling project. The machine based classifier that this project is attempting
    to profile is intended to emulate the currently manual task of tagging transcripts of
    worldwide deliberations about controversial topics with the intention of 1. Extracting
    argument dialogue segments and 2. Assessing argument…

    This project seeks to apply a scalable, NLP based computational mechanism to automate
    portions of the work done by the Center for Deliberative Democracy(CDD) in their
    Deliberative Polling project. The machine based classifier that this project is attempting
    to profile is intended to emulate the currently manual task of tagging transcripts of
    worldwide deliberations about controversial topics with the intention of 1. Extracting
    argument dialogue segments and 2. Assessing argument deliberative quality as per the
    conventions set forth by the CDD. Top level, these techniques involve humans tagging
    transcripts using a 0, 1, 2, 2+ scale, reflecting the respective number of provided reasons
    to support an argument. The computational techniques that will be profiled for their
    capacity to replicate human tagging that this project will explore will be transformer
    based language models such as XLNet, a custom bag of words (BOW) + randomforest based classifier, and random chance. Empirical results have displayed an increase
    in model generalizability when transferring to the XLNet model, indicating a better
    capacity to emulate human transcript tagging across all categorizations, conversational
    subjects, and discussion locales.

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  • Determining Modalities of Allocation Variation in Zero Sum Situations

    L Starling Reid Undergraduate Psychology Conference

Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    CS 353

  • Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques

    CS 221

  • Auction Theory

    ECON 4020

  • Behavioral Finance

    ECON 4370

  • Behavioral Issues in Marketing and Management

    COMM 3020

  • Cognition

    PSYC 2150

  • Cognitive Science Seminar for Distinguished Majors

    PSYC 3870

  • Commercial Law

    COMM 3410

  • Data Mining and Analysis

    STATS 202

  • Decision Making Under Uncertainty

    CS 238

  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms

    CS 161

  • Financial Accounting

    COMM 2010

  • Financial Trading

    COMM 5700

  • Intermediate Accounting

    COMM 3110

  • Intermediate Corporate Finance

    COMM 3720

  • Intermediate Investments

    COMM 4710

  • Intermediate Microeconomics

    ECON 3010

  • Making Business Work

    COMM 1800

  • Managerial Accounting

    COMM 2020

  • Mind, Culture, and Society

    PSYC 228

  • Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

    CS 224N

  • Neural Basis of Behavior

    PSYC 2200

  • Neurobiological Perspectives on Learning and Behavior

    EDLF 5500

  • Neuroscience of Social Relations

    PSYC 5559

  • Neurotechnology: Where Materials Meet the Mind

    MATSCi 384

  • Perception

    PSYC 2300

  • Philosophy of Neuroscience

    Phil 267D

  • Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions

    ENGR 248

  • Principles of Economics: Micro and Macro

    ECON 2010, 2020

  • Programming

    CS 1110

  • Programming Abstractions

    CS 106B

  • PsychoLinguistics

    EDHS 4300

  • Quantitative Analysis 2

    COMM 3060

  • Quantitative Finance

    COMM 3721

  • Quantitative and Financial Analysis

    COMM 3030

  • Statistical Analysis

    STAT 2120

  • Strategic Value Creation

    COMM 3040

  • Strategies in Emerging Markets

    COMM 3050

  • Strategy and Systems

    COMM 3010

  • Substance Abuse

    EDHS 2240

  • Trust and Safety Engineering

    CS 152

  • Value of Data and AI

    CS 320

Honors & Awards

  • Symbolic Systems Distinguished Teaching Award

    Stanford University

    The Symbolic Systems Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes contributions to the teaching of Symbolic Systems students. Award recipients each receive a certificate and a monetary award.

  • High Distinction in Cognitive Sciences

    University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences

    Upon completion of the Cognitive Science program, certain high performing students are awarded with distinction based on academic achievement, research quality, and contribution to Cognitive Science at the University of Virginia.

  • Lenox-Conyngham Scholarship Finalist

    Trinity College- University of Cambridge

    One of two Finalists for the Lenox-Conyngham Scholarship, valued at over $85,000 USD, offered exclusively to one graduating McIntire student interested in studying full time at the University of Cambridge’s prestigious Trinity College, enrolling in a one-year master of philosophy program.

    The Foundation believes that those with an academic education, mixed with commerciality make better, more well-rounded leaders in whatever field. A successful finalist will have demonstrated both…

    One of two Finalists for the Lenox-Conyngham Scholarship, valued at over $85,000 USD, offered exclusively to one graduating McIntire student interested in studying full time at the University of Cambridge’s prestigious Trinity College, enrolling in a one-year master of philosophy program.

    The Foundation believes that those with an academic education, mixed with commerciality make better, more well-rounded leaders in whatever field. A successful finalist will have demonstrated both leadership experience as well as excellent academic potential.

  • Cognitive Science Distinguished Major

    University of Virginia, Department of Cognitive Science

    The University of Virginia Department of Cognitive Science Distinguished Major Program offers competitive admission to Cognitive Science majors who display exceptional promise.

    Successful applicants complete an original thesis based on two semesters of theoretical or empirical research. Upon culmination, a small selection of projects are invited to a research symposium to present findings.

  • University of Virginia President's Scholarship

    University of Virginia

    Partial tuition assistance for students displaying exceptional academic capability

  • Echols Scholar

    University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences

    Echols Scholars represent the top 8.5% of the College of Arts and Sciences and are chosen as a result of academic performance and rigor.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Pashto

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Urdu

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Professional working proficiency

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