| Hi! My name is Sandy. I am a doctoral student working on information extraction from late medieval charters at the University of Graz. Prior to joining the Uni-Graz Digital Humanities Center, I did an engineering stint in information extraction at the University of California, Berkeley. This was followed by a brief research experience, which consisted of looking into the state-of-the-art of Arabic named and relational entity extraction, at the American University of Beirut. |
| From September 2019 until November 2020, I worked on identifying and tackling challenges in the Arabic automatic speech recognition field, at the American University of Beirut. Prior to joining AUB, I worked for ten months on a research project which aspires to optimize the process of constructing the speech corpus of unit selection synthesizers, at the University of Rennes I. |
| My formal learning path resulted in receiving a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Lebanese University in 2014, and then graduating first in class with a master's degree in Computer Science from the Lebanese University and the University of Toulouse III in 2016. |
| The talent which makes me stand out the most at work is my superior analytical abilities which enable me to solve problems quite quickly and efficiently. I especially possess remarkable critical thinking, logical reasoning, creative thinking, and communication competence. My other practical strengths include being extremely organized; being a fast learner; and being able to self-teach myself many things from scratch. |
| In respect to technical computer science skills, my strength lies in my ability to exploit publicly available libraries; frameworks; codes; and other resources to solve my problems or to use them as a basis to build my solutions. In addition to that, I comprehend the way programming languages work which facilitates the process of teaching myself new (needed) programming languages and technologies. For more specific technical skills: Python is the programming language I employed most in my research work; Ubuntu is my operating system of choice; I am proficient in LaTeX; I built this mobile-friendly website from the ground up; and I figure out missing technical knowledge by consulting a search engine. |
| Besides computer science, I hold other interests such as history; philosophy; finance; and art, hence I enjoy spending my free time doing activities which expand my breadth and depth of knowledge in these areas. I also enjoy meeting people coming from different cultures and backgrounds which helps in widening my opinions and conclusions. |
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