Short Career History
Lead Data Scientist, September 2015 - today
Signal AI
I lead a team of data scientists and data engineers to reserach and develop text analytics services for a large-scale business intelligence platform. The platform supports reputation management, media coverage reporting, content marketing and other use cases.
Post-doctoral Researcher, May 2012 - September 2015
University of Glasgow
Researcher in the IR Terrier research group at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. I was working with Dr. Iadh Ounis and Dr. Craig Macdonald, conducting research for a number of publicly funded projects. This includes the integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project within Urban Big Data Centre, and the SMART FP7 EU project.
Senior Research Officer, May 2010 - May 2012
University of Essex
I was working as a research officer on the AutoAdapt project, which is a GBP 287K EPRSC project that aims to develop and evaluate methods for adapting automatically constructed domain models to the population of users' search or browsing behaviour.
KTP Associate, May 2008 - May 2010
Acitve Web Solutions ltd. & University of Essex
A joint project funded under the Government Technology Strategy Board scheme with a total funding of GBP 127K. The aim of the project is to develop an innovative technique to support collaboration in cross-enterprise projects. This involves analysing emails exchanged between project stakeholders and applying natural language processing and semantic search technologies to help users in finding and browsing information.
Software Developer, July 2007 - May 2008
Core Data Systems Ltd., Colchester, UK.
Freelance Web Programmer, October 2007 - May 2008
Information System Services, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Education
- 2008-2012, PhD. Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
- 2006-2007, MSc. with Distinction Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
- 2001-2006, BSc. Computer Engineering, Université d'Alep.
Awards
- The R. A. Brooker prize (2007) from the department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex for outstanding performance in the MSc. Degree.