- Amazon | Senior Applied Scientist | Aug 2019 - Present (Sunnyvale, CA)
- Amazon | Applied Scientist Intern | July - Oct 2018 (San Francisco, CA)
- Conversational music search for Alexa
- Megagon Labs | Research Scientist Intern | Sept - Dec 2017 (Mountain View, CA)
- Dialog system framework design to allow developers to build conversational chatbots
- IBM Research | Watson Research Intern | 2016 (Almaden, CA)
- Twitter customer service conversation modeling, published at IUI '17 and the ACM TiiS Journal '18
- UC Santa Cruz | Graduate Research Assistant | 2014 - 2019 (Santa Cruz, CA)
- PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant at the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab
- Microsoft | Summer Intern | 2010 (Cairo, Egypt)
- Internal social network development for team collaboration, content sharing, and workflow management
- Co-Organizer, Human-in-the-Loop Dialog Systems Workshop, NeurIPS 2020
- Co-Lead, ACL Group Mentoring Session: Finding a Great Advisor/Mentor and Surviving Grad School, ACL 2020
- Mentor, Widening NLP Mentorship Roundtable: Choosing Between Industry and Academia, WiNLP 2020
- Session Lead, NLG Breakout Session, SIGDIAL 2020
- Student Co-Chair, NAACL 2018 Student Research Workshop
- Organizer, SIGDIAL 2017 Special Session on NLG for Dialogue Systems
- Student Volunteer, ACL 2019, ACL 2017, EMNLP 2017
- UC Santa Cruz
- Master's Project in Conversational Agents (CMPS296)
- Introduction to Computers (CMPS10)
- Arab Academy for Science and Technology
- Data Structures (CS212)
- Computer Algorithms (CC412)
- Operating Systems (CC418)
- Network Protocols and Programming (CC442)
- Computer Design and Performance Analysis (CC523)
- UC Santa Cruz | PhD, Computer Science | 2014 - 2019
- UC Santa Cruz | MS, Computer Science | 2014 - 2015
- Arab Academy for Science and Technology | MS, Computer Engineering | 2011 - 2013
- Arab Academy for Science and Technology | BS, Computer Engineering | 2006 - 2011