Bashar Talafha
Graduate Research Assistant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBashar Talafha is a research-driven machine learning engineer and data scientist with nine years of experience building production-ready AI systems and academic research in information science. He has applied deep learning and classical ML across NLP and computer vision tasks—from machine translation and NER to aspect-based sentiment analysis and image classification—at organizations including Samsung R&D, Mawdoo3, and as a Graduate Research Assistant at UBC. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has built microservice platforms to deploy AI components and led data science workstreams in high-impact, multilingual environments. Currently pursuing a PhD at UBC, he combines rigorous academic methods with practical model deployment experience, and brings a persistent researcher’s mindset to solving real-world data problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Yarmouk University Model School (YUMS)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (51)
transformers10
markdown10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
facebook10
flax10
deep-learning10
gitpod10
github-pages10
tensorflow10
conformer10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bashartalafha/Arabizi-Transliteration
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 commits in 2 years 6 months
bashartalafha/Arabic-Laptop-Reviews-ALR-Dataset
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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