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 EngineeringÂ
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 EngineeringÂ
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