Summary
Hazar Harmouch is an Assistant Professor and researcher with a decade of experience specializing in data quality, data profiling, cleaning, integration, and data-centric machine learning. Currently based at the University of Amsterdam with visiting appointments such as at the University of Waterloo, she combines academic rigor from a PhD in Information Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute with practical research that bridges databases and ML. Her work at HPI focused on operationalizing data-centric AI, bringing measurable improvements to downstream models by treating data curation as a first-class research problem. Earlier roles—from lecturing in software engineering to participating in Google's EMEA Get Ahead program—underscore her blend of teaching, industry engagement, and technical mentoring. Colleagues know her for translating messy, real-world datasets into reliable inputs for robust ML systems, a skill that often surfaces in cross-disciplinary projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Course, Democratic Understanding of Society, Sustainable Economic Policy and Personal Competence, Graduate Course, Democratic Understanding of Society, Sustainable Economic Policy and Personal Competence at University of Konstanz
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Systems at Hasso Plattner Institute
Master’s Degree, Software engineering and information system, Master’s Degree, Software engineering and information system at Jami't Al-Ba'ath
English, Arabic, German