Bridger Ammar, PhD 🌍🕊️

Bridger Ammar, PhD 🌍🕊️

Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Bridger (Waleed) Ammar has been leading top-tier, high-impact data-modeling projects…

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  • University of Washington Graphic

    University of Washington

    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Kirkland, Washington, United States

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    Kirkland, Washington, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Greater Pittsburgh Area

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    Greater Pittsburgh Area

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    Redmond, WA

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    Cairo, Egypt

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Education

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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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  • SeeChat x Ideas

    In 15 minutes, go from a vague idea to a concrete problem definition and scientific proposal, complete with a related work section and a list of references. In 15 min, you will be able to iterate on your draft and share it with colleagues to solicit their input.

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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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Languages

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

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