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Maggie Gaid

Looking for opportunities in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science.

New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Junior NLP R&D EngineerFull Time

    Ministry of Communication (Applied Innovation Center)

    Sep 2020 - Present -4 yrs, 10 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Research & Development EngineerPart Time

      Idea in Motion Inc.

      Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 -11 months

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:Research and Development in the field of speech recognition, natural language processing and information extraction. Tasks and duties included the following: - Collecting and preprocessing audio datasets and text corpus using tools like spacy library, pandas, nltk, sklearn and torchaudio. - Developing and training ASR systems based on state-of-the-art speech recognition algorithms using pytorch. - Training state-of-the-art neural language models and finetuning them for text classification using tensorflow. - Implementing and training spelling correction models using tensorflow’s seq2seq framework. - Working on and training RNN-based slot filling and intent detection models. - Training models using TPUs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GPUs on Microsoft Azure. - Benchmarking, analyzing and reporting results.
    • Web Developer InternInternship

      ESeed

      Aug 2018 - Sep 2018 -1 month

      Egypt , Giza

      • Job Details:Participated in developing the frontend of “garment.io“ website using ReactJS
    • Augmented Reality Developer InternInternship

      German University in Cairo

      May 2018 - Jun 2018 -1 month

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:Participated in developing an augmented reality android application for helping autistic children using unity engine and vuforia sdk.
    • Education

      • BS in Computer Science and Engineering

        German University in Cairo (GUC)

        Jan 2015 - Jan 2020 - 5 yr

      • High School - Thanaweya Amma

        Armenian Catholic Sisters' school

        Jan 2015 

      Achievements

      - Scholarship to conduct my bachelor project at Trapeze GmbH. Switzerland In 2019, I was granted a scholarship due to being among the top 10 students at college to conduct my bachelor project at Trapeze GmbH. and granted all the funds I needed - Academic Excellence Award at the German University in Cairo In 2017, I was awarded the Academic Excellence Award and granted a prize of 1800 € for my outstanding academic performance. - 5th Ranked Student on Cairo Governorate at Thanaweya Amma. In 2015, I scored 99.7% at Thanaweya Amma and ranked the 5th on Cairo Governorate and was given a certificate of honor by Cairo Governorate. I was granted a scholarship to study at the German University in Cairo accordingly.

      Skills

      • Java
      • Python
      • Machine Learning
      • Research Development
      • PyTorch
      • TensorFlow
      • Linux System Administration
      • C#
      • Git
      • Data Science
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      Languages

      • English

        Fluent
      • Arabic

        Fluent
      • German

        Beginner
      • French

        Beginner

      Training & Certifications

      • Web Developer Intern

        ESeed·2018
      • Augmented Reality

        German University in Cairo·2018
      • Human-Computer Interaction Intern

        German University in Cairo·2017
      • ICDL

        UNESCO·2010
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