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Warda Tariq

@wardatariq

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PhD AI researcher specializing in NLP for low-resource and endangered languages.

Russian Federation

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What I'm looking for

I seek research-focused roles that apply NLP to low-resource languages or applied ML engineering positions combining model development, data engineering, and deployment in collaborative, impact-driven teams.

I am a second-year PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the Higher School of Economics, focused on NLP for low-resource and endangered Pamir languages such as Bartangi and Wakhi.

I build clean linguistic corpora, develop rule-based lemmatizers, and train word embedding models (Word2Vec CBOW & Skip-gram) to support linguistic analysis and downstream low-resource NLP tasks.

I have practical experience across machine learning, deep learning, data science, and applied ML systems — including backend development (Express.js, PostgreSQL), RAG pipelines with FAISS and Hugging Face embeddings, and LoRA fine-tuning of LLaMA/Falcon models.

I bridge theoretical research with real-world AI applications, having published and presented work (RANLP 2025), developed an insurance analytics RAG prototype, and contributed to internships and applied projects that emphasize inclusive, interpretable language technologies.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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AI/ML Developer Intern

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Flomad Labs

Jan 2025 - Present (11 months)

Developed backend systems and AI-driven modules for a wearable device, implemented RESTful APIs and PostgreSQL integrations, and collaborated with R&D to integrate edge AI models.

PostgreSQL REST APIs Docker fastAPI Faiss Hugging Face Edge

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PhD Researcher (NLP)

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Higher School of Economics

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Conducting PhD research on low-resource NLP for Pamir languages, building linguistic corpora, developing rule-based lemmatizers, and training word embedding models to support morphological analysis.

Low Resource NLP Corpus Building Morphology Lemmatization Word2Vec Representation Learning Python Research

IT Intern

Sialkot International Airport

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (11 months)

Provided IT support and assisted with infrastructure and systems tasks within the airport IT department.

IT Support Systems Administration Networking Troubleshooting Documentation

AI/ML & NLP Research Intern

Flo Labs R&D

Contributed to AI/ML and NLP research projects, supporting model development and data preprocessing for research prototypes.

NLP Machine Learning data preprocessing Model Training Python Embeddings

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Activities and societies: PhD thesis project on low-resource NLP; publications and conference presentations (RANLP 2025).

Second-year PhD student researching NLP for low-resource and endangered Pamir languages, focusing on corpus building, rule-based lemmatization, and word embeddings.