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yazan ashour

@yazanashour

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I build grounded AI systems for retrieval, summarization, evaluation, and speech understanding.

Palestine, State of

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking an entry-level AI/ML Engineer or Software Engineer role where I can build reliable, scalable, and grounded AI systems.

I've built AI systems for a Reuters-style search engine, including a summarization module for text, image, and voice queries. I compared LLM summarizers, enforced structured outputs with Pydantic, added fallback parsing, and developed groundedness and evaluation pipelines within a hybrid-search RAG workflow.

I've also fine-tuned Mistral-7B-Instruct for automatic essay grading, achieving 0.6868 MAE and 0.8227 Pearson correlation across a dataset I constructed. For audio emotion recognition, I developed a ResNet18 model using log-Mel spectrograms that achieved 80.2% test accuracy on RAVDESS.

I'm a final-year Computer Science student at An-Najah National University, focused on reliable, scalable, and grounded AI systems using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, and Elasticsearch.

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AI/ML Engineer

Yazan Ashour

Final-year Computer Science student specializing in AI, ML, NLP, and IR, with experience in building end-to-end AI systems including LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and evaluation frameworks.

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Elasticsearch NLP Deep Learning RAG LLM Fine tuning