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Career

· Principal PM, Architect for Responsible AI, Microsoft2025–
· Intern, Google2015–2015
· Graduate Intern, Educational Testing Service (ETS)2014–2014
· PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University2012–2019
· Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut2011–2012
· Research Assistant, American University of Beirut2011–2012
· Graduate Intern, Intel Corporation, Intel Labs2010–2011
· Bachelor of Computer and Communications Engineering, American University of Beirut2006–2010

Publications (19)

SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2017
874
cited
Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2019
856
cited
SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval)
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2019
850
cited
Sentence-Level and Document-Level Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts
2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops · 2010
199
cited
Large Scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2014
112
cited
Scoring Persuasive Essays Using Opinions and their Targets
BEA@NAACL-HLT · 2015
56
cited
Cross-lingual sentiment transfer with limited resources
Machine Translation · 2017
49
cited
Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2014
29
cited
A novel mobile wireless sensing system for realtime monitoring of posture and spine stress
Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering · 2011
26
cited
Annotating Targets of Opinions in Arabic using Crowdsourcing
ANLP@ACL · 2015
21
cited
The Columbia System in the QALB-2014 Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction
ANLP@EMNLP · 2014
18
cited
SMARTies: Sentiment Models for Arabic Target entities
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
14
cited
A Mobile Sensing and Imaging System for Real-Time Monitoring of Spine Health
2011
13
cited
Reranking with Linguistic and Semantic Features for Arabic Optical Character Recognition
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013
10
cited
Cross-Lingual and Low-Resource Sentiment Analysis
2019
5
cited
The ARIEL-CMU Systems for LoReHLT18
arXiv.org · 2019
5
cited
Energy-efficient mobile gesture recognition with computation offloading
International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications · 2011
2
cited
A context-aware design for emotion recognition in natural settings -
2013
Multilingual offensive lexicon annotated with contextual information
2021
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