I am a first-year PhD Student in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila under Professor Golnoosh Farnadi. I previously did a Masters in Business Intelligence at HEC Montréal under the co-supervision of Professor Golnoosh Farnadi and Professor Gilles Caporossi. I work on fairness and privacy in machine learning and natural language processing. I am also interested in the broader field of trustworthy machine learning and working with low-resource languages.

News!

• [May 2024] I started a new position as a senior research scientist at Statistics Canada in their research department to work on fairness and privacy issues in large language models.
• [May 2024] I was awarded the prestigious FRQNT Doctoral Training Scholarship. It’s an annual scholarship of $25000 per year for 4 years (for a total of $100000).
• [April 2024] I was awarded one of Mila’s Excellence scholarships for the category EDI in Research, PhD level. It’s an annual scholarship of $8000 per year for 3 years (for a total of $24000).
• [April 2024] Dr. Afaf Taïk and I gave a talk at the Google’s Women Techmaker event called: “Towards Inclusive AI: Understanding bias in machine learning models”.
• [Feb 2024] I was an expert in a roundtable organized by Mila AI for Humanity about the capabilities, limitations, and risks of GPAIS - from a technical perspective.
• [Dec 2023] I went to NeurIPS 2023 to present our work in the North Africans in Machine Learning Workshop and I was also a student volunteer during the conference!
• [Oct 2023] Our survey paper “Leveraging AI for Natural Disaster Management: Takeaways From The Moroccan Earthquake” was accepted for a poster presentation in the Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Workshop.
• [Oct 2023] Our project “Unmasking Predators: Safeguarding Vulnerable Moroccan Communities Post-Earthquake” was accepted for a poster presentation in the North Africans in Machine Learning Workshop.
• [Sep 2023] Our project “Unmasking Predators: Safeguarding Vulnerable Moroccan Communities Post-Earthquake” won the Morocco Solidarity Hackathon.
• [Sep 2023] I’ve started my PhD at McGill University and Mila under the supervision of Professor Golnoosh Farnadi.
• [June 2023] I was interviewed by HEC Mag about my Master’s thesis on the detection of sexual predators.
• [June 2023] I gave a six-hour class about Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning to Statistics Canada employees.
• [Jan 2023] I’ve started a research internship at Mila under the supervision of Professor Golnoosh Farnadi.
• [Dec 2022] I attended NeurIPS in New Orleans to present our work “Early Detection of Sexual Predators with Federated Learning” at the International Workshop on Federated Learning and the Women in Machine Learning Workshop.
• [Oct 2022] Our paper “Early Detection of Sexual Predators with Federated Learning” was accepted at the International Workshop on Federated Learning at NeurIPS.
• [Oct 2022] Our white paper “AI & Cities: Risks, Applications and Governance” was presented at the Urban Economy Forum.
• [Sep 2022] My thesis “Mitigating Online Grooming with Federated Learning” won the Best Thesis Award at HEC Montréal for the year 2022.
• [Sep 2022] I presented our work “Mitigating Online Grooming with Federated Learning” at the Montreal AI Symposium.
• [Sep 2022] I’ve started working as a Data Scientist in the Methods, Quality, and Research section in Statistics Canada.
• [March 2022] I’ve completed Ivado’s Action Inclusion Challenge and worked with IBM towards improving women’s representation in STEM.
• [March 2022] I earned second place in the HEC Data Challenge 2022.
• [May 2021] I started a data journalism internship at La Presse after winning Ivado’s Data Storytelling Scholarship.