Abeer Badawi
Postdoctoral Researcher at York University
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAbeer Badawi is a multidisciplinary AI researcher and postdoctoral scholar focused on applying large language models and machine learning to mental health, digital biomarkers, and responsible AI with an emphasis on fairness, evaluation, and clinical impact. With a PhD in Computer Engineering and over eight years of applied experience spanning academia and industry, she has partnered with major clinical and support organizations (e.g., CAMH, UHN, Kids Help Phone) to translate models into tools for crisis support, agitation prediction in dementia, and large-scale LLM mental-health evaluation. She combines deep technical skills in LLMs, streaming data, and real-time health prediction with extensive teaching experience across engineering curricula. Notably, her work bridges rigorous ML benchmarks (ICML/EMNLP) with real-world deployments and stakeholder collaboration, earning competitive fellowships and industry-funded projects.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Ontario Tech UniversityIBM Data Science Professional CertificateMaster’s Degree communication and electronics engineering, Master’s Degree communication and electronics engineering at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
English, Arabic
Github Skills (2)
gyroscope2
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
abeerbadawi/Analyze-Your-Runkeeper-Fitness-Data
May 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
abeerbadawi/COVID-ChestXray15k-Dataset-Transfer-learning
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 6 days
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