Tuka Alhanai

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Tuka Alhanai is an associate faculty at New York University and NYU Abu Dhabi, where she leads the Laboratory for Computer-Human Intelligence, developing AI systems that fuse sensors, signal processing, machine learning, and human interfaces to interpret speech, measure brain health, detect sentiment, evaluate team fit, and predict venture success. She co-founded Ghamut, a technology company delivering software engineering, ML, data infrastructure, project management, and business strategy, with a team drawing on backgrounds from Cambridge, MIT, BCG, Samsung, Thomson Reuters, Allstate, and S&P Global. Her work has earned the MIT Legatum Award (2016), MassChallenge winner (2017), NSF SBIR grant (2019), and MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 MENA (2018). She earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2019, following master's work at MIT and a bachelor’s degree from The Petroleum Institute. As a mentor and leader, she has trained 25+ researchers who have moved on to roles at Goldman Sachs, Palantir, Noon, and leading academic institutions, with publications in IEEE, ACM, and AAAI and coverage by BBC, WSJ, Wired, and TechCrunch.

9 years of coding experience

Github Skills (5)

health10

speech10

modeling10

datasets10

machine-learning8

Programming languages (1)

C++

Github contributions (5)

talhanai/redbud-tree-depression

Apr 2018 - Jan 2020

Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 13 comments in 1 year 9 months

talhanai/kaldi-diar-latte

Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

Contributions:104 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days

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