Summary
Marah Halawa is a Visiting Researcher and PhD candidate in Computer Science based in Berlin with nine years of experience building and researching machine learning systems across industry and academia. She holds an M.Sc. from TU Berlin and has applied deep learning to speech, facial expression recognition, and production-grade fraud detection using sequential models like LSTMs and Transformers at Zalando. Her doctoral work investigates visual understanding bottlenecks in modular, hierarchical temporal vision systems for closed perception–action loops, bridging theoretical research with practical system design. Marah has interned and collaborated with SAP on adversarial and disentangled representation learning and contributed to industry research at Bayer and SAP Signavio. Known for combining strong experimental ML skills (PyTorch, Python, Sagemaker) with applied problem-solving, she brings a researcher’s rigor to real-world AI products. An engaged community member, she also volunteers on women-in-tech initiatives and maintains scholarly visibility via Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor Artificial Intelligence at Damascus University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
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