I completed my Ph.D. in March, 2011.
I worked with Prof. Julia Hirschberg in the Spoken Language Processing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University.

I'm a Googler now.

 

Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant: Spoken Language Processing (4706), Spring 2008

• Teaching Assistant: NLP for the Web (6998), Spring 2008

• Course Manager: Natural Language Processing 4705, Summer 2007 and Fall 2007

Previous Education:

• M.Sc. Summa cum Laude in Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, July 2005

            Thesis Title: Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models.

• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, July 2002 - awarded "the best for industry," fellowship.

Working  Experience:

• Summer Internships at IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 2009 and 2010

• Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science at BGU, 2002 to 2004

• Senior software developer at Dalet Digital Media Systems, New York, 2004 to 2005.
  Lead developer of a real-time broadcast system for automated multi-channel radio stations.
  The application is used at XM Satellite Radio for broadcasting more than 120 channels, and at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio network.

• Software developer, Dalet Digital Media Systems, 2001 to 2004.

Natural Languages:

• Native speaker of Arabic. Fluent in Hebrew and English.