Noura Farra
Principal Tech Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoura Farra is a Principal Tech Product Manager and applied scientist at Microsoft with a decade of experience bridging research and product delivery in NLP, social media, news and political text. A Columbia PhD candidate in Computer Science, she specializes in modeling under-resourced languages and domains, translating cutting‑edge research into production-ready data science and engineering solutions. Her career spans roles from research assistant and intern positions at Google, Intel, and ETS to senior data science and applied science leadership at Microsoft, giving her deep domain expertise and program management chops. She seeks interdisciplinary opportunities across data science, software engineering, and technical program management, and is known for combining rigorous academic methods with pragmatic product focus to ship impactful ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMasters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at American University of Beirut
english, arabic, french
Github Skills (10)
gensim6
allennlp5
glove5
nlp5
multilingual5
word-embeddings4
sentence-similarity4
natural-language-processing4
sentence-embeddings3
arabic-nlp3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
narnoura/SentimentTargets-paper
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
narnoura/ProcessCorpora
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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