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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Dr. Ashqar is an assistant professor at Arab American University and adjunct faculty of AI at Columbia University . He is also a Scholar Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA and a collaborating researcher with Stanford University Natural Language Processing group on translation with LLMs for low-resource languages including Arabic. He has 12+ years of local and international experience as a program manager, technical advisor, and business developer with a primary focus on AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Deep Learning and their applications on Climate Change, Smart Cities, Economic Development, and Advanced Transportation and Energy Technology..
He has honed his ability to quickly familiarize himself with the technical content and challenges in new fields to find robust solutions. He has identified promising opportunities for technological and public policy advancements. His experience includes being a technical advisor and project manager for programs with over $50 million value in AI and advanced technologies at U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E. He was able to establish federal work for a firm landing more than five significant projects in less than two years.
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