GW NLP Lab | Mentorship

CURRENT PHD STUDENTS

Heba Elfardy, Fall 2010 - present, Columbia University
Ali Elkahky,  Spr 2012 - present, Columbia University
Aya Zirikly, Spr 2013 - present, George Washington University
Maryam Aminian, Fall 2013 - present, George Washington University
Hanan AlDarmaki, Fall 2013 - present, George Washington University
Shabnam Tafreshi, Fall 2014 - present, George Washington University
Sardar Hamadian, Fall 2014 - present, George Washington University
Fahad AlGhamdi, Spr 2015 - present, George Washington University
Nada AlMarwani, Spr 2015 - present, George Washington University
Sawsan AlQahtani, Spr 2015-present, George Washington University
Aly Seyfi, Spr 2015 -present, George Washington University
Pedram Hosseini, Fall 2016 - present, George Washington University

GRADUATED THESIS STUDENTS

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, PhD, Fall 2009- Sum 2015
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
(Joint supervision with Owen Rambow)
Thesis: Power Structures and Modality in Multilingual Social Communication
Current position: Postdoc at Stanford University, CA, USA

Weiwei Guo, PhD, Fall 2009 - Spr 2015
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
Thesis: Semantically Nuanced Models for Natural Language Processing
Current Position: Research Scientist, LinkedIn, CA, USA

Muhammad Abdulmageed, PhD, Spr 2010 - Fall 2015
Linguistics Department & Information Sciences Dept., Indiana University
(Joint Supervision with Sandra Kuebler, Susan Herring)
Thesis: Sentiment Analysis in morphologically rich languages
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Mahmoud Ghoneim, PhD, Fall 2006 - Spr 2012
Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
(Joint Supervision with Mohsen Rashwan)
Thesis: Explicit Modeling of Semantics in Statistical Machine Translation
Current Position: Research Scientist, CARE4Lang Lab, George Washington University, DC, USA

Pradeep Dasigi, MSc, Fall 2010 - Spr 2012
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Thesis: Dialectal Arabic Orthography Normalization
Current Position: PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

Yassine Benajiba, PhD, Fall 2007-Spr 2009
Computer Science Department, Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, Spain
(Joint Supervision with Paolo Rosso)
Thesis: Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Current Position:Director of Research at Symanto Group, NY, USA

CURRENT RESEARCHERS

Abdelati Hawwari, PhD, Fall 2013-present
Research Scientist, CARE4Lang NLP Lab
Department of Computer Science, George Washington University
Focus: Arabic computational lexicography

• Mohamed AlBadrashiny, MSc, Fall 2013-present
  Research Engineer, CARE4Lang NLP Lab 
  Department of Computer Science, George Washington University
  Focus: Automatic Dialect Identification, Spell Error Correction

Efsun Sarioglu, PhD, Fall 2016-present
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CARE4Lang NLP Lab
Department of Computer Science, George Washington University
Focus: Computational Health Analytics

• PAST RESEARCHERS
  

Davide Picca, PhD, May 2010 - Apr 2011
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University
Postdoc Focus: Unsupervised semantic modeling for comparable corpora Current Position: Senior lecturer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Marine Carpuat, PhD, May 2009 - Apr 2011
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University
PostDoc Focus: Explicit Semantic Modeling in Statistical Machine Translation
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA

Yassine BenAjiba, PhD, Fall 2009 - Sep 2010
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University
PostDoc Focus: Shallow Syntactic Parsing in Arabic, and Information extraction
Current Position: Director of Research, Symanto Group, NY, USA