Shaden Shaar
PhD Candidate
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShaden Shaar is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University with nine years of research and applied ML experience spanning NLP, computer vision, and long-document understanding. She has contributed to academic publications and built practical systems—from lane detection and classifier evaluation algorithms during her undergraduate research to fact-checking, propaganda detection, and emotion recognition for low-resource languages at Qatar Computing Research Institute. More recently she has worked on synthetic data for Siri at Apple and on AI solutions for governments while at Scale AI and Zillow, blending research rigor with production-minded engineering. Her PhD work under Prof. Claire Cardie focuses on narrative long-document summarization and multi-document/text-speech understanding, with a particular interest in medical and low-resource language applications. Less obvious: she has a track record of turning theoretically grounded methods (active testing, active learning) into deployable demos and shared tasks, demonstrating both algorithmic depth and impact-oriented delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
data-format9
checker9
pii8
fact-checking6
pytorch4
faster-rcnn3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sshaar/clef2020-factchecking-task1
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Contains data, format checker, scorer and baselines for the CLEF2020-CheckThat! Task 1.
Contributions:30 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
baselinesdata-formatscorerchecker
sshaar/clef2020-factchecking-task5
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Contains data, format checker, scorer and baselines for the CLEF2020-CheckThat! Task 5.
Contributions:17 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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