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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer science, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2019.
• M.S. in Computer science, Grenoble-Alpes University, Grenoble, France, 2016.
• B.S. in Computer science, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, 2012.

Professional experience

• Jan 2020 - Jun 2020: Research Engineer
  • Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique, IMT Nantes, STACK team.
  • Implement dynamic erasure-coding chunk scheduling in Hadoop DFS.
• Jan 2013 - Aug 2014: Software Developer (Java)
  • Syrian Educational Publisher Co., for E-Publishing and E-learning
  • Small-sized company of 13 developers applying Scrum agile methodology.
  • Accomplished tasks:
    • Extend the core libraries to cover more of the EPUB3 spec.
    • Implement Unit Testing for the core libraries with code coverage of 70%.
    • Develop 60% of the Android application (Epub3 Viewer).
    • Implement the first prototype of the GWT website.
    • Implements synchronization between applications running on different devices.

Research Internships

• Feb - Jun 2016: Master graduation internship
  • Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research center
  • Supervisor: Bruno RAFFIN
  • Title: A Programming and Data Model for in-situ Frameworks
    • The goal was to design a new programming and data model for in-situ frameworks (e.g., FlowVR) to ease the representation and the expressiveness of complex scientific workflow while reducing the performance overhead.
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• May – Jul 2015: Master internship
  • Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research center
  • Supervisors: Denis TRYSTRAM and Eric GAUSSIER
  • Title: Improving the EASY-Backfilling scheduler using Machine Learning algorithms
    • Improve the EASY-Backfilling scheduler in HPC environment using a machine learning algorithm called Learning to Rank. An average improvement of 68% has been achieved in case the job run-time is already known.
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Skills

• Programming languages: Python, Java, and C++.
• Frameworks and tools: Hadoop, Spark, Docker, OpenStack, Ansible, Vagrant, and Git.
• Academic experience in Natural Language Processing, Data Mining and Machine Learning.
• Familiar with mobile (android) and web (front-end and back-end) technologies.
• Critical thinking, creative problem-solving, teamwork spirit, and writing skills.

Honors and Awards

• PERSIVAL-Lab scholarship for academic excellence for the year 2015-2016.
• I was an active member in programming competitions (2009-2014):
  • I represented Damascus University (Faculty of Informatics) in the ACPC programming contest - the regional tier of ICPC - within a team of 3 students, and we got the 8^th, 14^th, and 11^th place consecutively from 2009 to 2011.
  • I coached the teams of Damascus University in the ACPC programming contest 2012 and 2013.
  • I was a judge in the Syrian Collegiate Programming Contest (SCPC) - the national tier of ICPC - in 2012 and 2013.
  • I was a problems setter in many national contests.
• The 8^th place in the fourth annual Math Olympiad contest held by Department of mathematics, Damascus University 2012.
• We won, as a team of three, the 3^rd place in Fikra Competition for our “Simple Geometry Solver” project, Damascus 2011.

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