Hamza Harkous
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHamza Harkous is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Zürich with over a decade of experience building large-scale NLP, privacy, and synthetic-data systems. He founded and leads Simula, Google’s internal synthetic data framework that powers dozens of high-impact launches—from Gemini safety classifiers to Android scam detection—bringing agentic LLM approaches to data diversity and complexity. His prior work transformed data curation pipelines via diversified retrieval, active learning, and automated debugging, and he architected core models for Google’s Checks privacy service and enterprise-scale feedback analysis. Before Google he worked on NLU and data-to-text generation at Amazon Alexa and conducted award-winning privacy and HCI research during his PhD and postdoc at EPFL. He combines deep research rigor with product-minded engineering, and his privacy-focused projects have earned international recognition and coverage in major tech outlets.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer communication and information sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer communication and information sciences at EPFLBE Computer and Communications Engineering, BE Computer and Communications Engineering at American University of Beirut
Github Skills (42)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
jax9
flax8
seq2seq8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/hark
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 month
harkous/harkous.github.io
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:76 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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