Ahmed Ali

Also published under:Ahmed M. Ali

Affiliation

Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Doha, Qatar

Topic

Automatic Speech Recognition System,Speech Recognition,Arabic Word,Bilingual,Code-switching Speech,Fully-connected Layer,Language Model,Speech Recognition Systems,Training Set,Utterances,Annotation Guidelines,Arabic Dataset,Arabic Dialects,Attention Heads,Background Sounds,Baseline System,Black Dots,Blue Spheres,Chart Types,Class Separation,Confusion Matrix,Convolutional Neural Network,Convolutional Neural Network Layers,Correlation Score,Data Augmentation,Data Space,Decision Boundary,Decoder Layer,Deep Neural Network,Deep Neural Network Structure,Dialect Identification,Dimensional Space,Domain Channel,Edit Distance,English Language,Equality Constraints,Error Rate,Exploratory Analysis,Generation Pipeline,Graphical Representation,Green Spheres,Highest Correlation,Highly Correlated,Homology Groups,Hourly Data,Human Effort,Imbalanced Distribution,Inter-rater,Joint Training,Language Identification,

Biography

Ahmed Ali (Ing. [MS]. Faculty of Engineering Cairo University, 1999) is senior software engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). From 2000 to 2006, he was working as software engineer at IBM working on speech recognition solutions for various projects, such as Arabic viavoice, and websphere voice server. From 2006 to 2008, he was working at Marlow/UK based startup SpinVox, building multilingual speech recognition for voice mail to text application, later acquired by Nuance and moved to Cambridge from 2008 to 2011 responsible for the Acoustic Modeling at the Advanced Speech Group (ASG) in the voice mail to text team. In 2011, Ahmed joined QCRI as senior software engineer focusing on Modern Standard Arabic, and Arabic dialects for broadcast domain and lecture transcription. Ahmed is member of IEEE and serves as technical lead for various committees; such as e-Bag Project in the SEC, and Mentor for the hackathon. Ahmed has been leading the developing and deploying the Arabic BCN for Aljazeera.