| EXPERIENCE |
| Sept 2011 – present |
Google Inc. |
Mountain View, Ca |
| Lead Engineer |
- Machine Intelligence/Question Answering
- Launched 75 Question Answering projects/features impacting 10% of Google traffic.
- Architect of Q/A Freshness, Structured & Unstructured Knowledge integrations, Short Answers.
- Designed & developed Phrase embedding models (Salient and RNN Hybrids models.), Question Answering stack for semi-structured data.
- Search Infrastructure
- Designed & developed an instant indexing layer for private data.
- Designed & developed Multi-channel infrastructure to verify and enforce wipeout of private data.
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| Sept 2008 – Aug 2011 |
University of North Texas |
Denton, Tx |
| Research Assistant in the Language Information Technologies Lab |
- Research interest in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
- Conducted research on monolingual and cross-lingual semantic similarity, document categorization and clustering, resulting in more than twenty publications in prestigious international conferences.
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| Dec 2001 – Sept 2008 |
University of North Texas |
Denton, Tx |
| Instructional Programmer |
- Designed and developed fifty web applications to support online classes, with a target audience ranging from several hundred to a few thousand students.
- Maintained and improved existing applications.
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| Sept 1999 – Aug 2001 |
Data Management Systems |
Cairo, Egypt |
| Oracle Programmer/H.M.I.S. System Engineer |
- Designed and developed modules in Hospital Management Information System (H.M.I.S).
- Deployed the H.M.I.S. package at multiple sites.
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EDUCATION |
| Sept 2005 – Aug 2011 |
University of North Texas |
Denton, Tx |
| Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering (GPA 4.0, Advisor: Dr. Rada Mihalcea) |
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| Sept 2003 – Dec 2005 |
University of North Texas |
Denton, Tx |
| Masters in Computer Science (GPA 4.0) |
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| Oct 1998 – July 1999 |
Information Technology Institute |
Cairo, Egypt |
| Post-Graduate diploma in Software Development (full scholarship) |
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| Sept 1994 – May 1997 |
Cairo University |
Cairo, Egypt |
| B.Sc. in Physics with Honors |
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HONORS & RECOGNITIONS |
| Google Inc. |
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Mountain View, Ca |
- +30 Peer recognitions (2012-2014), including two from Ray Kurzweil.
- Google Student Ambassador 2010-2011.
- Google Internship Summer 2010.
- Google Ph.D. Intern Scholarship 2010-2011.
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| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). |
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Mountain View, Ca |
- Best Student Paper Award - IEEE ICSC 2007.
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| University of North Texas |
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Denton, Tx |
- Outstanding Computer Science & Engineering Doctoral Student Award 2011.
- Computer Science Eagle Ambassador 2009-2010.
- Outstanding International Graduate Student Award 2005 (awarded to a single international graduate student yearly based on academic excellence and active multicultural involvement).
- Scholarships: Multicultural Scholastic Award 2004-2011, International Committee Scholarship 2004-2010, Miller-Atkins Scholarship 2007-2009, UNT Alumni Association Scholarship 2008- 2010, North Texas Exes Scholarship 2006-2010, Graduate Council Committee Scholarship 2004, Academic Achievement Award 2005-2006.
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| Oracle Inc. |
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Redwood City, CA |
- O.C.P. (Oracle Certified Professional) Developer 2000/6/6i.
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| Information Technology Institute |
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Cairo, Egypt |
- Outstanding Student Award 1999.
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| Cairo University |
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Cairo, Egypt |
- Mahmoud Mokhtar Award for Excellence in Physics (awarded to the highest achieving student in graduating class).
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ACADEMIC SERVICES |
- Organizer: Co-Chair of the TextGraph-4 Workshop (ACL-IJCNLP 2009).
- Program Committee Member ACL-HLT 2011, EMNLP 2010, FLAIRS-23 2010, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, EMNLP 2009, The People's Web Meets NLP (COLING 2010), TextGraph-3 (COLING 2008), TextGraph-2 (NAACL 2007).
- Reviewer: AIJ 2011, CoNLL 2005, CICLing 2006, ICWSM 2007, SEMEVAL 2007, IJCNLP 2008.
- Guest editor of the Speech and Language journal, Elsevier [IF: 1.094] 2010.
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