Played key roles in multiple institutions and contributed to several research works, including the development of AraBERT, AraELECTRA, and AraGPT2.
Research Experience
ALMAnaCH - INRIA: PhD Researcher (Mar 2023 - Present), developing methods to detect text generated by language models; Research Engineer (Mar 2022 - Feb 2023), implementing new pre-training techniques for French language representation. Siren Analytics: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Jan 2021 - Feb 2022), deploying AI models in production, researching and developing semantic search engines. American University of Beirut: Graduate Teaching Assistant (Feb 2018 - Jan 2020).
Education
American University of Beirut, Graduate Research Assistant (Sep 2018 - Jan 2021), co-founded MIND Lab, focused on NLP technologies and pre-training Arabic language models.
Background
PhD student and engineer in AI, specializing in state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing techniques. Worked on several NLP projects including AraBERT, AraELECTRA, and AraGPT2.