Nadir Durrani
Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Doha, Qatar
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Top SchoolNadir Durrani is a Senior Scientist based in Doha with a decade of research and applied experience in natural language processing, holding a PhD from Universität Stuttgart. He has progressed from doctoral research and postdoctoral work in Europe to leading NLP projects at Qatar Computing Research Institute since 2014, now as a senior scientist. His background spans academic rigor and industry-focused research, including an IBM internship on Egyptian-to-English machine translation and research roles across diverse international institutions. Known for turning linguistics and ML research into practical systems, he combines deep technical expertise with a track record of long-term project ownership in multilingual and resource-scarce settings.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing at Universität StuttgartMS, NLP - Computer Science, MS, NLP - Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesSecondary and Higher Secondary School, Pre-Engineering, Second Position in HSSC group, Secondary and Higher Secondary School, Pre-Engineering, Second Position in HSSC group at Pakistan International School Riyadh
English, Urdu, Punjabi, German, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
localization9
moses9
translation8
machine-translation7
interpretation6
neurons5
inference4
dialogue-systems4
nlp4
pytorch4
natural-language-processing4
realtime4
python3
bert2
nlp-machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nadirdurrani/aux_classifier
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
nadirdurrani/nadirdurrani.github.io
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
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Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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