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Montreal, QC, CA

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

London, England, United Kingdom

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Beirut, Lebanon

• Annotated and cleaned data using an image annotating tool.
• Read papers & researched state-of-the art object detection algorithms.
• Applied transfer learning & trained different architectures to detect Foreign Object Debris found on airport runways.
• Fine-tuned existing models after training to get better results.
• Automated several workflows, especially data fetching & cleaning.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Researched deep learning topics (Data Augmentation, Back propagation, Regularization, fitting...)
• Learned about AI in healthcare especially detecting epilepsy using machine learning.
• Applied data-preprocessing on EEG signals (.edf files), split the data to normal and seizure and produced Numpy files ready for training and testing.
• Created statistical tables to track seizure timings and patient statistics before processing.

• Developed the front-end side of a website using Material UI and React.js
• Developed REST APIs using Node.js microservices and Postman.
• Used Bitbucket as Git version control tool.
• Tracked and updated tasks on Jira.
• Briefly worked on a JavaEE MVC project

Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

-Attended sessions on a daily basis, related to 2G-3G-LTE, switch core and Data core interfaces.-Attended sessions related to the usage and analysis in the telecom sector.-Monitored the daily network by using performance monitoring tools.-Visited sites and went on drive tests.-Read and researched about 5G, its benefits and future implementations.-Monitored.

Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

-Created test cases and tested web applications.-Tracked software defects using MDSL tracking tool (redmine)-Recorded and executed automated test cases using Katalon studio.-Wrote SQL statements for the creation of tables,indexes and procedures using TOAD for oracle.-Developed a web application that helps the QA team to test results and manage evaluations.