Research Interests

• o Neural and Statistical Machine Translation (MT).
• o Deep learning (DL) / Machine learning (ML).
• o Computer Vision, Question Answering and Chatbot.
• o Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• o Reinforcement Learning (RL).
• o Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• o Word and Sentence Continuous Vector Representations (i.e. embeddings).

Education/Academic Degrees

• o Ph.D. LIUM, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France, 2015
• o M.Sc. College of Computing & Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, 2010
• o Diploma Information Technology Institute, Cairo, Egypt, 2001
• o B.Sc. Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, 1997

Professional Experience

• o Since May 2018: Freelance AI Consultant, France
• o Oct 2015 - May 2018: Post-Doc Researcher at LIUM – University of Le Mans, France
• o Dec 2011 – Sep 2015: PhD Student/Researcher at LIUM – University of Le Mans, France
• o Feb 2014 - May 2014: Visitor Researcher at IBM Watson Research Center in New York, USA
• o Mar 2003 – Nov 2011: Team Leader/Advisory Software Engineer at IBM, Egypt
• o Oct 2001 – Jan 2003: Senior Software Engineer at Ellipsis Digital Systems based in USA, Egypt
• o Jan 2001 – Oct 2001: Software Engineer at icomXpress based in USA, Egypt
• o Oct 1999 - Mar 2000: Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Computer Science, MSA University, Egypt

Professional Activity

• o Journal: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)

Projects and Shared Tasks

• o WMT 2016 Multimodal Machine Translation Shared Task (LIUM ranked first in both tasks)
• o Continuous Space Language and Translation Model Toolkit – Add the support for auxiliary features and experiment with different types of auxiliary features, since 2014
• o BOLT, DARPA 2011-2014, Broad Agency Operational Language Translation with IBM TJ Watson and other research labs in the USA and Europe.
• o NIST 2012 Open Machine Translation Evaluation (OpenMT12)
• o Extend to new language pairs and support more features for DELiC4MT, Machine Translation Marathon 2012, September 3-8, Edinburgh, UK
• o Using Reinforcement Learning to learn how to walk, applied on half-cheetah: The algorithm used is Augmented Random Search (ARS). Check the video online
• o Detect objects in a video using Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) method. Check the video online

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Invited Talks, Seminars or Presentations

• o Improving Continuous Space Language Models using Auxiliary Features, Talk at LIMSI, Paris, 21 June 2016.
• o Semi-supervised transliteration mining from parallel and comparable corpora, IWSLT 2012, Dec 2012, Hong Kong
• o Diagnostic evaluation of MT with DELiC4MT, Machine Translation Marathon 2012, September 3-8, Edinburgh, UK
• o Injected Linguistic Tags to Improve Phrase Based SMT, Sept 2011, LIUM, France

Awards/Associations

• o Best Multimodal Machine Translation System in A Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation
• o Best paper presentation award at CICLING 2016
• o ACL Member