Alumni Members

Gilbert Badaro

Ph.D. Student

B.E in Computer and Communications Engineering

 

Interests:
Natural Language Processing, Arabic Sentiment Analysis, Recommender Systems

Current Projects:
Arabic NLP and Sentiment Analysis Resources Development

Alaa Maarouf

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Interests:
Natural Language Processing

 

Current Projects:
Transfer Learning for Lexicon Expansion

Fouad Khnaisser

BE in ECE

 

Interests:
Deep kernel learning, Natural Language Processing

 

Current Projects:
Emotion Recognition

Christian Hokayem

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Computer and Communication Engineering

 

Interests:
Affective Computing, Automated Negotiations, Chatbots, NLP

Current Projects:
Emotion Recognition, Empathetic Negotiation Bot

Obeida ElJundi

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Computer Engineering

 

Interests:
Natural Language Processing

 

Current Projects:
Cognitive opinion mining, Emotion recognition in the wild

Marc Djandji

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering

 

Interests: Multitask and Transfer Learning, Time-Series Data, Biomedical Signals
Current Projects:
Large Scale Individualized Power Consumption Prediction, Emotion Recognition in the Wild

Nataly Dalal

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Computer and Communication Engineering 

 

Interests:
Conversational Systems, Lifelong Learning, Recommender Systems, Personal Assistants

Current Projects:
Lifelong Conversational System, Emotion Recognition

Mosbah Aouad

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Interests:
Time Series Predictions

Current Projects:
Time series prediction for smart meters analytics through multi-task learning

Rim Achour

Master’s in Computational Science

B.S. in Statistics with minor in Mathematics

 

Interests:
Speech Recognition and Transcription

Current Projects:
Thesis: Speech Recognition/Transcription for the Cocktail Party Problem

Raslan Kain

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Interests:
Context Awareness, Optimization, Sensory Systems, Machine Learning
Projects:
Holistic Optimization Approach to Sensor Selection and Scheduling for Multi-Context Recognition (Thesis)

Amir Hussein

Master’s in ECE

B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Interests:
Time Series and Sensing Analytics, Domain adaptation, Multitask learning, CV
Projects:
Emotion recognition from physiological data, Domain Adaptation for wearable sensing

Wissam Antoun

Master’s in ECE

B.E. in Computer and Communication Engineering

 

Interests:
NLP, Language Models, Transformers, Social Chat-bots, Arabic Dialects

Current Projects:
Evapo-transpiration prediction, Arabic BERT, Arabic chatbots

Dalia Jaber

Master’s Student in ECE

B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering – USJ

 

Interests:
Explainable Machine Learning Models

 

Current Projects:
Emotion Recognition in the Wild