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Summary of my studies and career.

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General Information

Full Name Yehya M. Farhat
email yehyafarhat [at] outlook [dot] com
Languages English, Arabic, French (basic)

Education

Experience

  • 2023-09 - Current
    Research Scholar
    Syracuse University EECS
    • Studying the expressiveness of piece-wise linear functions attained by deep neural networks by examining the dynamics of the linear regions attained from the learned function with respect to different losses, optimization algorithms, and training cycle
    • Investigating efficient algorithms for counting the number of linear regions attained by deep neural networks
  • 2021-10 - 2023-05
    IT Consultant
    Syracuse University Colllege of Law
  • 2022-06 - 2022-08
    Data Scientist
    Qnovo
    • Operated as a full-stack engineer to design and build a battery testing platform and a corresponding user interface to query the database, reduced time spent on ad-hoc reporting from 2-3 days to 10 minutes
    • Cleaned and performed exploratory data analysis on 5M + rows of time-series data. Analysis was used to confirm the existence of a sensitivity problem in battery capacity estimates
  • 2021-04 - 2021-08
    Software Engineer
    Precast FZCO
    • Devised a cloud-based Microarchitecture; employed Microsoft azure to create a correspondence between CMMS software and the clients IOT software, streamlined task creation between software systems, reduced task creation time to zero
    • Designed and implemented an integration module to connect multiple ERP, IOT, and CMMS software, the module included an interface to allow clients to specify what information to streamline between softwares

Leadership and Outreach

  • 2022-02 - 2023-05
    President and Co-Founder
    SU Graduate Chess Club
    • Co-Founded the graduate chess club at Syracuse University, served the role of Acting President. orchestrating the club's growth, with over 150+ graduate participants during my tenure. Successfully facilitated a merger between the graduate and undergraduate chess clubs, fostering a cohesive and inclusive chess community within Syracuse University
  • 2018-01 - 2019-07
    Math and Physics Tutor Volunteer
    MMKN NGO
    • Served as a part-time Physics and Mathematics teacher for students in grades 9 and 10. Specifically, I conducted afternoon classes catering to refugees and members of minority communities in Lebanon

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
    • End-to-End Optimization learning
    • AI for Science & Engineering
    • Theoretical Machine Learning
    • Safe & Trustworthy AI
  • Constrained Optimization
    • Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
    • Large-Scale Optimization
    • Differential Optimization

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Football, Chess, Writing, Badminton