Basem Ahmed
Assistant Professor at Alaqsa University
Palestinian Authority Palestine State
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Top SchoolBasem Ahmed is an Assistant Professor and computational linguist with over 15 years of applied experience in data science, machine learning, and speech and language technologies, including Arabic NLP and pronunciation/acoustic modelling. He holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from Universiti Sains Malaysia and has led research on code-switching speech recognition and hybrid acoustic model adaptation. His work spans speech-to-text, language modelling, sentiment and opinion mining, and recommender systems, combining deep linguistic insight with practical system-building. Based in Palestine, he blends academic leadership with hands-on research experience across multilingual speech corpora, often tackling non-native and dialectal pronunciation challenges that many NLP pipelines overlook.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing at Universiti Sains MalaysiaGithub contributions (5)
basem-ahmed/Yelp_Restaurants_datasets
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:290 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
basem-ahmed/new_RecommenderSystems
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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