Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2024; Reward for invention, Knowledge Graph Repair Using Ontologies and LMs, Bosch, 2022; Participated in discussion, DFG grant of 312,000 € for compiling negative knowledge at web scale, 2021; Audience-choice Best Paper Award at AKBC, 2020; Best Student Paper Award Nominee at IC3K'17, 2017; Full Graduate Assistantship at the American University of Beirut, 2014.
Research Experience
Postdoc: UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, Sep 2023 - present; Lecturer: TU Darmstadt, Apr 2024 - Jul 2024; Researcher: Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Feb 2018 - Oct 2023; Research Intern: Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Jun 2021 - Mar 2022; Visiting Researcher: The University of Edinburgh, Feb 2020 - Aug 2020; Document Control Administrator: American University of Beirut, Jan 2016 – Dec 2017; Research Assistant: American University of Beirut, Feb 2014 – Jan 2018; IT Instructor: American University of Beirut & United Nations, Mar 2017 – Sep 2017; Teaching Assistant: American University of Beirut, Feb 2014 – Dec 2016.
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Feb 2018 - Oct 2023, Advisors: Prof. Simon Razniewski, Prof. Gerhard Weikum; Master of Computer Science, American University of Beirut, Feb 2014 - Feb 2017, Advisor: Prof. Shady Elbassuoni; Bachelor of Computer Science, Haigazian University, Feb 2010 - Jun 2013.
Background
Current topics of interest: AI for mental health, analyzing the impact of research papers, commonsense knowledge, cultural NLP. Previous topics of interest: searching and curating web-scale knowledge graphs, mining salient negative knowledge.
Miscellany
Student Supervision: Jan Larionow, Eugen Owtscharow, Nils Kovacic, Serena Baylis, Malihe Kaffash, Aditya Bikram Biswas, Mang Zhao.