Meryem M'hamdi
Data & Applied Science PhD Intern
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeryem M'hamdi is a PhD candidate in Computer Science and a Research Assistant at USC/Information Sciences Institute, specializing in natural language processing and cross-lingual event relation extraction. With a decade of industry and research experience, she currently works on improving search and ranking for multimedia queries at Microsoft Bing and has held NLP research internships at Adobe and Sony. Her work spans multilingual dense text representations, semantic search, and applied pipelines that integrate embeddings into downstream tasks, reflecting both strong research rigor and production-minded engineering. A high-achieving multilingual researcher with top academic scores and a Masters from EPFL, she combines deep-learning experimentation with practical system integration across culturally diverse teams. Her background includes building multilingual pipelines for 11 languages and successfully defending a master thesis graded 6/6, signaling an uncommon blend of breadth and measurable research impact.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Academic Exchange Program, Visiting Student, Academic Exchange Program, Visiting Student at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.91/4.0, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.91/4.0 at Al Akhawayn UniversityMathematical Sciences, 17.19/20, Mathematical Sciences, 17.19/20 at Carthage High School
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German
Github Skills (29)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
seq2seq9
language-model9
jax9
flax8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
meryemmhamdi1/MasterThesis
Sep 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 10 months
meryemmhamdi1/meryemmhamdi1.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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