Experience

Jun 2025 — Present Montreal, QC, Canada

Research Assistant, CoCo Lab — Azrieli Research Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine. Predicting epilepsy from EEG recordings using foundation-model fine-tuning.
Jun — Dec 2024 Columbus, OH, USA

Research Technician 2, Brain Aging Lab — Ohio State University. Automating participant reporting for a healthy brain aging study.
Jul 2023 — Jun 2024 Northampton, MA, USA

Research Assistant, Human Computation & Vis. Lab — Smith College. Running data analysis on trust in data visualization.
Sept 2022 — May 2023 San Francisco, CA, USA

Software Engineer — DoorDash. Implementing and shipping UI iOS features in Swift.
Fall 2021 Geneva, Switzerland

Technology Intern — UN Environment Programme. Building Apache Superset dashboards for sustainable development progress.
Jun — Aug 2021 Remote

Software Engineer Intern — TIBCO. Building AngularJS features for Project AIR with Docker & Kubernetes.
May — Aug 2020 Northampton, MA, USA

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow — Smith College. Studying how personality traits shape analytical behavior.
Feb — May 2020 Northampton, MA, USA

Research Assistant, Cancer Immunotherapy Project — Smith College. Extending a cancer epitope prediction tool in Java.
Jan 2020 Northampton, MA, USA

Google J-Term Coding Bootcamp. Developing 5 Android apps in Java using different data structures & algorithms.
Aug 2019 — May 2020 Northampton, MA, USA

House Community Adviser — Smith College Residence Life. Organizing house events, advising 54 residents, facilitating peer mediation.

Education

Jan 2025 — Present Montreal, QC, Canada

MSc, Artificial Intelligence — Mila / Université de Montréal. Advisor: Dr. Karim Jerbi. GPA: 3.9/4.3.
Sept 2018 — May 2022 Northampton, MA, USA

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science & Statistical and Data Sciences — Smith College. GPA: 3.88/4.0.
Fall 2021 Geneva, Switzerland

Study Abroad — University of Geneva & The Graduate Institute of International Studies.
Jun 2018 Ariana, Tunisia

Baccalaureate, Mathematics — Pioneer School of Ariana.
2015 — 2016 Kingston, MA, USA

Kennedy-Lugar YES Program — fully funded high school exchange program, Silver Lake High School.

Publications & Conferences

2024 Remote

Building and Eroding: Exogenous and Endogenous Factors that Influence Subjective Trust in Visualization — IEEE VIS (Short Paper), also presented as an oral talk.
2026 Montreal, QC, Canada

UNIQUE Student Symposium — Poster, "Evaluating and Benchmarking Machine Learning Methods for EEG-Based Classification in Childhood Epilepsy." Best Poster Award.
2025 — 2026 Montreal, QC, Canada

"ML–Based Discovery of EEG Biomarkers in Childhood Epilepsy" — Poster, presented at BRaIN Symposium, Montreal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN), and UNIQUE 2nd Scientific Retreat.
2024 Raleigh, NC, USA

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences Research Symposium.
2023 Orlando, FL, USA

Grace Hopper Celebration — World's largest women-in-tech conference.

Teaching

Jul 2026 Montreal, QC, Canada

Teaching Assistant — Arabs in Neuroscience (AiN) Computational Neuroscience Summer School. Guiding students through coding tutorials in probability, linear algebra, calculus, and statistics.
May — Jul 2026 Montreal, QC, Canada

Teaching Assistant — Indigenous Pathfinders in AI. Teaching weekly tutorial sessions reinforcing machine learning concepts.
Sept — Dec 2025 Montreal, QC, Canada

Tutor — DIRO, Université de Montréal. Holding weekly office hours for undergraduate computer science students.
Spring 2022 Northampton, MA, USA

Teaching Assistant — Astronomical Data Sciences, Smith College. Guiding students through weekly labs and grading assignments.