Tamer Elsayed
Professor at Qatar University
Doha, Qatar
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Top SchoolTamer Elsayed is a full professor of Computer Science at Qatar University with over a decade of academic and industry experience spanning research roles at Microsoft, postdoctoral work at KAUST and UMD, and an internship at Google. He leads the bigIR research group focused on the intersection of Information Retrieval, NLP, and Big Data, with a distinctive emphasis on Arabic language and social media analytics. A prolific researcher, he has published in top venues (ACM SIGIR, ACL, AAAI, VLDB) and secured more than $3M as lead PI through multiple QNRF NPRP grants. His work has earned several best paper and reviewer awards and the QU CENG Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research in 2023. Known for bridging theory and real-world deployment, he has active collaborations with local media and research centers as well as international universities.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Alexandria UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (4)
ranking8
science7
react7
computer-science6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
telsayed/IR-in-Arabic
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 3 months
telsayed/test
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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