Karen Mazidi
Author And Professor at Self-employed
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Mazidi is a computer science educator, author, and NLP researcher with a PhD and nine years of teaching and academic experience, most recently as Assistant Professor of Teaching at The University of Texas at Dallas. She has presented PhD work at top international NLP conferences and co-authored several widely used textbooks with Pearson/Prentice-Hall, translating advanced ML and NLP topics into accessible learning materials. Now semi-retired and self-employed in Dallas, she continues to create educational content—including a YouTube channel—and publish practical books that bridge academia and industry. Beyond classroom instruction, she combines rigorous research credentials with a talent for clear technical communication, making complex language technologies approachable for learners and practitioners.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of North Texas
Github Skills (26)
text-classification9
statistics9
cython9
turkish9
nlp9
corenlp8
transformer-architecture8
python8
spacy8
scikit-learn8
natural-language-processing8
fairness-ml8
machine-learning8
language-processing8
named-entity-recognition8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kjmazidi/NLP
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:135 commits, 237 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
kjmazidi/Intro-to-Deep-Learning
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 30 pushes in 6 months
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