Waleed Ammar
Volunteer at City of Kirkland
United States
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Top SchoolBridger Ammar is a research-driven engineering leader with 14 years of experience building language and multimodal systems that remove barriers to global collaboration. His work spans foundational research (language-universal and self-supervised models, scientific literature modeling) and product-focused programs, from pioneering machine translation research at Microsoft Research and CMU to leading Semantic Scholar R&D and democratizing task-oriented dialogue at Google. As a founder and technical co-founder he has launched platforms prioritizing global impact and safety—most recently shaping wearables audio and language strategy at Meta’s smartglasses team. He has a track record of scaling ideas into cross-functional teams of 30+ and partnering with major labs and institutions including Google Research, Microsoft Research, AI2, Meta Reality Labs, and the NSF. An active contributor to open-source deep learning tooling (notably fixes to the DyNet toolkit), he combines rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on systems delivery. Currently exploring responsible, high-impact platform opportunities, he focuses on bridging cultures, modalities, and domains to accelerate meaningful human collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems and Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems and Engineering at Alexandria UniversityPhD in Computer Science, Computer Science, PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (8)
machine-learning10
c-language10
deep-learning10
cprogramming-language10
dynet10
back-end-development10
n9
rnn-model9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
clab/dynet
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
DyNet: The Dynamic Neural Network Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Waleed contributed to the DyNet deep learning toolkit by implementing and fixing features related to the `block_dropout` function, a form of regularization. Their work involved modifications to the core nodes and expression files, as well as the addition of a cubic activation function. Further contributions involved fixing the RNNBuilder to ensure the correct hidden states were accessed.
dynetneural-network
ldmt-muri/alignment-with-openfst
Aug 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:192 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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