Shahad Alkhalifa
Senior Data Scientist
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolShahad Alkhalifa is a Senior Data Scientist based in Riyadh with 11 years of experience applying big data analytics, NLP, and geospatial methods to industry and academic challenges. She has led research on Arabic language models and created a novel benchmark (Qiyas) to evaluate mathematical and language reasoning in ChatGPT, while also fine-tuning transformer models for downstream Arabic tasks. Her industry work spans interactive Tableau dashboards, customer-segmentation research adopted into an academic conference, and geospatial clustering for payments infrastructure, reflecting a blend of product-facing analytics and rigorous research. Comfortable across Python, Dataiku, Hugging Face, and web tooling, she combines practical deployment experience with scholarly publications and conference contributions—an unusual mix that bridges Arabic NLP research and actionable business insights.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Data Analyst, Nanodegree Data Analyst at UdacityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at King Saud University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (7)
arabic10
arabic-nlp10
survey10
natural-language-processing9
nlp5
topic-modeling5
bert4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iwan-rg/ArabicSurvey
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
مستودع الأوراق المسحية في معالجة اللغة العربية (أسبر) A Repository for survey and review papers in Arabic Natural Language processing (ANLP).
Contributions:129 commits, 101 pushes in 4 months
natural-language-processingarabicarabic-languagearabic-nlpreview
iwan-rg/iwan-rg.github.io
Apr 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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