Dyaa Albakour
Lead Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDyaa Albakour is a Lead Data Scientist and Head of AI Systems at Signal AI with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and product-grade machine learning. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and moved from postdoctoral work on information retrieval to leading applied AI research that powers real-world semantic search and analytics. Dyaa has a strong background in adaptive domain modeling, NLP and semantic search dating back to KTP-funded industry projects and university research teams. He excels at turning complex IR and NLP research into robust production services and mentoring teams to operationalize models. Based in London, he combines deep academic rigor with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset and a track record of sustaining long-term technical ownership since joining Signal AI in 2015. An understated strength is his history of applying user behavior adaptation techniques to improve search relevance—an approach that still informs his system designs.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Sciene, MSc, Computer Sciene at University of Essex
Github Skills (15)
sentence-similarity9
similarity9
sentence9
electra9
roberta9
multilingual8
nlp8
word-embeddings8
sentence-embeddings8
natural-language-processing7
transformers6
bert6
api3
python2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
signal-ai/Signal-1M-Tools
Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 10 months
dyaaalbakour/ml-stats
Oct 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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