“Deep understanding of search and online data modelling. Waleed tenacity in pursuing his technical career is remarkable. I found him in many occasions embracing change,, showing great deal of confidence to apply his technical knowledge in new ways. This is a rare property among deep technical backgrounds. Waleed expresses (and is not shy of asserting to his opinions) while smiling and demonstrating respect. His pursue of next generation natural language processing technologies qualifies him well to contribute effectively to solutions applying artificial intelligence across numerous domains and systems ”
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Bridger (Waleed) Ammar has been leading top-tier, high-impact data-modeling projects…
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The race to acquire holistic intelligence is hot and Microsoft is taking the lead.
The race to acquire holistic intelligence is hot and Microsoft is taking the lead.
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Why is OpenAI going to fail? When you're victorious, It is easy to take care of your people. When you're at war, It is hard. OpenAI failed the…
Why is OpenAI going to fail? When you're victorious, It is easy to take care of your people. When you're at war, It is hard. OpenAI failed the…
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Reading this made my day. Thank you, you know who!
Reading this made my day. Thank you, you know who!
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Carnegie Mellon University
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I earned my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the Language Technologies Institute. My research was funded, in part, by the prestigious Google PhD fellowship. I developed methods for processing natural languages in low-resource scenarios. In particular, I developed statistical methods for training NLP models in language-universal, cross-lingual, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning settings. Some of the core AI/NLP tasks I worked on include morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging…
I earned my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the Language Technologies Institute. My research was funded, in part, by the prestigious Google PhD fellowship. I developed methods for processing natural languages in low-resource scenarios. In particular, I developed statistical methods for training NLP models in language-universal, cross-lingual, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning settings. Some of the core AI/NLP tasks I worked on include morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, depenency parsing, machine translation, transliteration, word alignment, reordering, language identification in code-switched text, and identifying selectional preferences. My mentors and advisors during the PhD were Chris Dyer, Jaime Carbonell, D. Sculley, George Foster and Noah Smith.
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Activities and Societies: Alexandria University ACM Chapter
Distinction with honors
GPA: 3.86/4
Rank: 2nd
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Semantic Scholar
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Google Assistant
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DeepConsensus
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Microsoft Translator
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Microsoft Translator is a service provided by Microsoft Research to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.
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Microsoft Afkar
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Afkar is an Arabic word that means “ideas”. Microsoft Afkar gives Arabic users from all over the world the chance to play with cool new tools and ideas coming out of Cairo Microsoft Innovation Lab.
New tools and ideas can pop up any time so stay tuned!
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Al-Saha
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Al-Saha is arguably the largest Arabic forum for discussing Arab-related topics, with categories
such as religion, politics, economy, art, technology ...etc.
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Arabic
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English
Full professional proficiency
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