Bashar Alhafni
Assitant Professor @ MBZUAI (Former NYUAD Research Assistant and PhD Student)
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BS University of Bridgeport; MS University of Southern California; PhD New York University
Research Areas: Computational Linguistics; Machine Translation; Machine Learning; Information Extraction; Reinforcement Learning
Bashar is a fromer computer science PhD student at NYU and a graduate research assistant at CAMeL Lab. He is currently an Assistant Professor at MBZUAI. His research interests lie in the fields of natural language processing and machine learning. Particularly, he is interested in multilingual natural language processing and language generation tasks such as grammatical error correction and machine translation. He is also interested in interpretability to understand how bias manifests in natural language processing models and in creating more robust and fair systems.