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Career

· Founder and Chief Science Officer, Mendel.ai2017–
· Founding Member and Senior Research Scientist, EMR.AI2016–2017
· Founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), MedTools.com2014–2016
· Research Assistant, Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science2010–2015
· Master of Science in Information Systems Management, Arab Academy for Banking and Finance Sciences
· Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Computer Science, Columbia University
· PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University
· Chief AI Officer, Ensemble Health Partners
· Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering & Information Systems, University of Damascus

Publications (21)

Dialectal to Standard Arabic Paraphrasing to Improve Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2011
94
cited
Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation: Pivoting through Modern Standard Arabic
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013
53
cited
Tharwa: A Large Scale Dialectal Arabic - Standard Arabic - English Lexicon
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2014
48
cited
Elissa: A Dialectal to Standard Arabic Machine Translation System
International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2012
45
cited
ADAM: Analyzer for Dialectal Arabic Morphology
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences · 2014
41
cited
Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2014
41
cited
Medical Speech Recognition: Reaching Parity with Humans
International Conference on Speech and Computer · 2017
39
cited
Deep Learning for Punctuation Restoration in Medical Reports
Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing · 2017
30
cited
The Columbia System in the QALB-2014 Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction
ANLP@EMNLP · 2014
18
cited
From dictations to clinical reports using machine translation
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018
16
cited
A Question Answering System Based on Conceptual Graph Formalism
2009 Second International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling · 2009
14
cited
Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects
2018
14
cited
SPLIT: Smart Preprocessing (Quasi) Language Independent Tool
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2016
13
cited
Crowdsourced Continuous Improvement of Medical Speech Recognition
AAAI Workshops · 2017
11
cited
Automated Preamble Detection in Dictated Medical Reports
Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing · 2017
6
cited
Egyptian Arabic to English Statistical Machine Translation System for NIST OpenMT'2015
arXiv.org · 2016
5
cited
Coupling Symbolic Reasoning with Language Modeling for Efficient Longitudinal Understanding of Unstructured Electronic Medical Records
arXiv.org · 2023
4
cited
Unsupervised Arabic dialect segmentation for machine translation
Natural Language Engineering · 2020
4
cited
A Modern Standard Arabic Closed-Class Word List
2012
2
cited
ACR: A Benchmark for Automatic Cohort Retrieval
arXiv.org · 2024
1
cited
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