Islam Mesabah
[ Research Assistant | Computer Science master's student ] at DFKI and TU Kaiserslautern
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About Me:
I am a research assistant in the Department of Data Science and its Applications, headed by Professor Sebastian Vollmer at DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). I am studying Master’s in Computer Science at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. I finished my Bachelor’s degree In Computer science and engineering from The German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt. I have also worked in the GUC as a teaching assistant after graduating.
Research interests:
I am interested in the Natural Language Processing and Generation area which is a subfield of Machine Learning. I love working with Large language models, documents understanding, prompt engineering, code-switching language data, sentiment analysis, and style transfer.
Experience:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany
— Research Assistant
May 2023 - Present
- Structure PDF files.
Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
— Research Assistant
August 2022 - May 2023
- Evaluating large language models [GPT 3, OPT, BLOOM] on language style transformation.
German University In Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— Research And Teaching Assistant
September 2021 - June 2022
- Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology (MET)
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSEN)
- Tasks: Teaching, Remarking, Material Preparation.
- Teach Database Systems. 8 tutorials every week.
- Teach Concepts of Programming Languages. 7 tutorials every week.
- Bachelor Thesis Supervision. 4 students.
Robusta Studio, Cairo, Egypt
— Backend Developer Intern
August 2021 - October 2021
- Build a real-time API that handles data validation, user authentication, and crud operation into a MySQL database using Laravel.
- Deal with agile web development life cycle in a real-time project.
German University In Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— Undergraduate Researcher
August 2020 - September 2020
- Enhance deep learning model for language identification on Arabic English CS by adding n-gram and word embedding layer.
German University In Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— Undergraduate Researcher
July 2019 - September 2019
- Extend a block-based visual language for the NAO Robot to allow children to interact with it in different ways (text, speech, movement, … etc).
Education
Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
— M.Sc. in Computer Science
April 2022 - Present
- First Specialization: Intelligent Systems
- Second Specialization: Software Engineering
German University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— B.Sc. in Computer Science
October 2016 - July 2021
- CGPA: 1.25 [Excellent with High Honors (A)].
- Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology (MET)
- Major: Computer Science and Engineering (CSEN)
- Bachelor Thesis: Subword-Level Language Identification for Arabic-English Intra-Word Code-Switching
- Bachelor Project Grade: Excellent (A+)
Rabba Althanwea, North Sinai, Egypt
— Secondary School
2014 - 2016
- Rank on North Sinai Governorate.
Awards
October 2022, The Deutschlandstipendium for gifted and high-performing students,
- For my academic achievement German government and AWS decided to include me in this scholarship.
March 2022, Second Place in Hacktrick Hackathon 2022 In AI Held by DELL technologies,
- Led my hackathon team of four members and achieved second place in the hackathon. with a 2000 USD prize.
March 2022, AlThuraya MENA Scholarship For Master’s Degree of Science at TU Kaiserslautern,
- For my academic achievement, AlThuraya Foundation decided to give me a partial scholarship to start my Master’s studies at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
May 2019, First Place in the Technical Innovation Award in Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2019 in Malaysia,
- the GUC Innovators team developed a system for vehicle drivers with physical limitations using a drive-by-wire system controlled via brainwave and facial sensors.
July 2016, Full Scholarship for Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering,
- As I ranked among the students in the North Sinai governorate. Consequently, this encourages the German University in Cairo ”GUC” to offer me a full scholarship for a bachelor’s degree in Engineering at the university.
Puplication
Seoudi, Mariam Sherif, Islam Mesabah, Mohamed Sabry, and Hassan Soubra. “Virtual Bike Lanes for Smart, Safe, and Green Navigation.” — In 2023 IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy (CPERE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023.
Sabty, Caroline, Islam Mesabah, Özlem Çetinoğlu, and Slim Abdennadher. “Language Identification of Intra-Word Code-Switching for Arabic–English.” — Array 12 (2021): 100104.
Volunteer
Egypt Scholars Inc., California, USA
— DAR team member
February 2023 - Present
- Held online webinars on social media on different topics (Over 1500 views on Youtube):
GUC Innovators, New Cairo, Egypt
— R&I Team Head
November 2020 - August 2021
- Lead the R&I team to get innovative ideas and apply them to our car and show them in Asia shell Eco-Marathon to compete for the Off-Track award.
IEEE GUC Student Branch, New Cairo, Egypt
— Software Committee Member
October 2019 - July 2020
- Discuss and explain software topics with the committee members.
German University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— Junior Teaching Assistant
September 2019 - December 2019
- Help the main Teaching assistant teach Introduction to Computer science Course.
GUC Innovators, New Cairo, Egypt
— R&I Member
December 2018 - November 2020
- Create an android app that connects to the firebase database and updates its content automatically.
- Trying to get innovative ideas and apply them to our car and show them in the Asia shell Eco-Marathon to compete for the Off-Track award.
German University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
— Junior Teaching Assistant
September 2018 - December 2018
- Help the main Teaching assistant in teaching Data Structure and Algorithms Course