About me

Malik Altakrori holds a Ph.D. degree from McGill University - School of Computer Science and is a DL/NLP researcher at Mila - Quebec. He is a member of the Computational Linguistics group, the Data Mining and Security (DMaS) lab, and the Reasoning and Learning (RL) lab.

His doctoral studies were done under the co-supervision of Prof. Benjamin C.M. Fung, and Prof. Jackie C.K. Cheung, and he holds a Master's in Computing and Information Science from Masdar Institute.

Altakrori's research focus is on the Evaluation of Authorship Analysis techniques. He uses different NLP tasks such as text classification, machine translation, question answering, and finetuning pretrained language models in his research. He is currently interested in an applied research role in the industry where he can use the skills and knowledge acquired during his studies in real-life applications that would improve the community.

What i'm doing

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    Research interests

    Applications of NLP. Writing Style Analysis. Evaluation Techniques. Interpretability. Privacy and Fairness.

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    Courses Taught

    Database Management Systems course, Security in Computing, and Introduction to Programming.

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    Community service

    A reviewer for many NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and COLING, as well as other ML, Data Mining, and Security conferences such as NeurIPS, ICRL, ICDM, IEEE Security & Privacy and others.

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Curriculum vitae

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Education

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science (Machine Learning)

    McGill University
    Nov 2022
    Montreal, QC., Canada

    Thesis title: Evaluation Techniques for Authorship Identification and Obfuscation.

  2. M.Sc. in Computing and Information Systems

    Masdar Institute - In collaboration with “MIT”
    Dec 2011
    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Thesis title: Using Human Input to Enhance Learning in Repeated Stochastic Games.

  3. B. Tech. in Information Technology

    Palestine Polytechnic University
    Jan 2008
    Hebron, Palestine

    Project title: Visual Localization Aid for the Blind (V-LAB).

Experience

  1. Incoming Research Scientist - Intern

    Microsoft + Nuance
    Jan 2023 — April 2023
    Montreal, QC., Canada

    1. Will be joining the Security and Biometrics team.

  2. Machine Learning /NLP Researcher

    Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
    July 2018 — Nov 2022
    Montreal, QC., Canada

    1. Experience with several ML techniques and frameworks, e.g., data discretization, normalization, sampling, linear regression, decision trees, SVMs, and deep neural networks.
    2. Using the aforementioned skills for the authorship attribution classification task.
    3. Adapting existing Language generation/ neural machine translation as authorship obfuscation tools.
    4. Proposing question-answering techniques for content preservation in anonymization as a replacement for taken-based and model-based evaluation measures.
    5. Evaluating PLMs such as BERT and RoBERTa for as zero-shot, and few-shot style representation techniques.

  3. Teaching Assistant

    McGill University, School of Computer Science
    Sept 2018 — Dec 2018
    Montreal, QC., Canada

    1. For the Natural Language Processing (COMP 550 NLP), I helped create and evaluate the assignments, the exam, and the final researcher project.
    2. Maintaining weekly office hours and providing assistance with assignments and project ideas.

  4. Visiting Researcher

    McGill University, School of Information Studies
    Jan 2015 — Dec 2016
    Montreal, QC., Canada

    1. Scrapping Twitter to create the first Arabic authorship attribution dataset for short text.
    2. Performing comprehensive literature reviews and providing critical feedback on state-of-the-art authorship attribution techniques and how they may fit a different language.
    3. Conducting an extensive experimental study to adapt existing English authorship attribution techniques to Arabic.

  5. Lab Instructor

    Khalifa University
    Mar 2012 — May 2014
    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    1. Introduction to Computing – “Programming in C++”.
    2. Security in Computing.
    3. Database Systems
    4. Introduction to IT.

  6. School Teacher: Computer, and Math

    The International School of Choueifat
    Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2012
    Ras Al Kheimah, United Arab Emirates

    1. Math teacher: Grades 3 - 6.
    2. Computer teacher: Grades 3 - 5.

  7. Research Fellow

    Masdar Institute (Currently, Khalifa University)
    Oct. 2008 - Sep. 2009
    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    1. For the Natural Language Processing (COMP 550 NLP), I helped create and evaluate the assignments, the exam, and the final researcher project.
    2. Maintaining weekly office hours and providing assistance with assignments and project ideas.

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