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Salam Doghmash

AI & Machine Learning Researcher

PhD Researcher · Data Scientist · Building intelligent systems for real-world impact

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Years of Experience
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Publications
20+
Projects Delivered
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Languages Spoken
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01 — Profile

About me ·

I am a PhD researcher in Computer Science at Gazi University, specializing in Natural Language Processing and multilingual hate speech detection. With 4+ years in applied machine learning and 6+ years in software engineering, I bridge rigorous research with production-ready engineering.

My current research evaluates transformer architectures (XLM-RoBERTa, MARBERT) for cross-lingual content moderation in Arabic, Turkish, and English — with published work at ICE 2025 and ongoing PhD research.

PhD Researcher

Computer Science at Gazi University — focused on multilingual NLP and transformer evaluation.

Published Researcher

ICE 2025 conference paper · arXiv preprint · MSc thesis on Arabic hate speech detection.

Industry Builder

7+ years shipping production software — from BI platforms on BigQuery to ML-powered web apps.

02 — Research

Research & Publications

2025
CONFERENCE

Multilingual Hate Speech Detection with XLM-RoBERTa

International Conference of Innovative Computer Engineering (ICE 2025) · S. Doghmash et al.

Designed and evaluated a multilingual ML pipeline for hate speech detection in Arabic, Turkish, and English. Implemented baseline models (TF-IDF + LR, SVM, RF) using a soft-voting ensemble, then fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa with GPU acceleration, balanced sampling, and early stopping. Achieved 72.3% accuracy and 0.7079 Macro F1. Models were exported to ONNX and evaluated for real-time inference via API and Android deployment.

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2022
THESIS

Detecting and Cleaning Arabic Hate Speech Texts Using Deep Learning Approach

Islamic University of Gaza · MSc Thesis · S. Doghmash (Supervisor: Dr. Motaz Saad)

Master's thesis addressing two problems: Arabic hate speech detection using deep learning models (RNN, CNN, and Transformers); and cleaning offensive/hate speech texts using a machine translation model with a parallel corpus of clean and dirty sentences. Includes analysis of dialectal variation, annotation noise, and dataset bias.

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03 — Work

Selected projects

BI

Integrated Cloud-First BI Analytics Platform

Designed cloud-first BI architecture for large-scale transactional data with near real-time analytics.

BigQuery PostgreSQL Python Looker Studio Cron Jobs ETL
2024
AI

Multilingual Hate Speech Detection — XLM-RoBERTa

Fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa for hate speech detection across Arabic, Turkish, and English. Published at ICE 2025.

XLM-RoBERTa PyTorch ONNX Hugging Face Python REST API Android
2025
RESEARCH

Arabic Hate Speech Detection & Text Paraphrasing

MSc Thesis: deep learning for Arabic hate speech detection + sequence-to-sequence cleaning model.

RNN CNN Transformers TensorFlow NLP Seq2Seq
2022
CV

AI Computer Vision — Teknofest Technology for Humanity

4th place out of 238 teams · YOLOv8 system for real-time drowning and fire detection.

YOLOv8 PyTorch OpenCV Python Computer Vision
2024
AI

AutoECG — ML for ECG Signal Classification

Healthcare ML system for ECG analysis at UCAS Incubator (2 years).

Python Scikit-learn Signal Processing Healthcare AI
2022
WEB

LINKON — Web & Analytics Solutions

Led cross-functional teams delivering data-driven web and analytics solutions.

WordPress PHP MySQL Agile Project Management
2024
— Crafted on the web

Selected web work

A selection of websites, dashboards, and web systems I have shipped over 7+ years — for charities, government, agencies, and product companies.

Web App 2024

JoshenTech — Web Development

JoshenTech (Saudi Arabia)

Full-stack web development across multiple client projects in 2024 — building responsive marketing sites and internal tooling.

PHP JavaScript MySQL REST API Bootstrap
Web Developer
WordPress 2023

LINKON — Agency Platform

LINKON

Led WordPress development and project management for a digital agency delivering data-driven web solutions to multiple clients.

WordPress PHP MySQL Custom Themes Agile
Project Manager & WP Developer
Website 2022

Alarab in UK

Alarab — London

Long-running web development engagement with the Alarab platform in London, including site maintenance, feature delivery, and content tooling.

PHP WordPress MySQL JavaScript
Web Developer
Internal System 2020

Mayor Files Archive — Ministry of Local Government

Ministry of Local Government, Gaza

Built an internal archival system for the mayor's office to digitize and search physical documents — using CodeIgniter PHP framework with Oracle database.

CodeIgniter PHP Oracle jQuery
Web Developer
Web App 2021

Sirius for Information Technology

Sirius — Gaza

Project Manager for multiple websites and mobile application projects. Owned planning, requirements analysis, and team coordination across Agile and Waterfall workflows.

Agile Waterfall Slack Trello Smartsheet
Project Manager
WordPress 2019

Coktilat — Charity Websites Suite

Coktilat

Developed and shipped multiple WordPress websites for charitable organizations, with custom themes, multilingual content, and donation flows.

WordPress PHP MySQL ACF Custom Plugins
WP Developer & PM
E-commerce 2022

Fire Store — Nablus

Fire Store

E-commerce-style storefront with product catalog and admin panel for inventory management.

PHP MySQL Bootstrap jQuery
Web Developer
WordPress 2017

IPoke — Social Media & Web

IPoke

Combined data analyst + WordPress developer role. Managed the company's online presence and built/maintained multiple WordPress sites.

WordPress Analytics PHP Social Media
Data Analyst & WP Dev
04 — Experience

Professional journey

Oct 2022 — Present Present

PhD Researcher — AI & NLP

Gazi University

Ankara, Turkey

Researching multilingual transformer architectures, model evaluation methodologies, reproducibility, and ethical AI. Published at ICE 2025 with ongoing thesis work in cross-lingual content moderation.

Mar 2023 — Mar 2024

Project Manager & Web Developer

LINKON

Remote

Led cross-functional technical teams delivering data-driven web and analytics solutions. Managed full project lifecycle using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022

Data Scientist

AutoECG · UCAS Incubator

Gaza, Palestine

Developed ML models for ECG signal analysis and classification. Led preprocessing, feature extraction, and supervised model training in an applied AI healthcare project.

Sep 2021 — Aug 2022

Lecturer

Al-Israa University

Gaza, Palestine

Taught Web Programming, Databases, and CMS courses. Supervised student projects and provided academic mentoring.

Jan 2018 — Jan 2023

Web Developer / Project Manager

Various Organizations

Gaza & Remote

Designed and developed multiple websites and systems for public and private organizations. Led teams from planning to delivery.

Sep 2017 — Jun 2018

Teaching Assistant

Islamic University of Gaza

Gaza, Palestine

Assisted in teaching programming and IT courses. Supported students in labs and project development.

Jul 2017 — Dec 2019

Web Development Trainer

Al-Raed Center

Gaza, Palestine

Delivered hands-on training in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and PHP — helping trainees move from fundamentals to real projects.

05 — Academic background

Education

2022 — Present

PhD

Computer Science

Gazi University

Research focus on multilingual NLP, transformer-based hate speech detection, model evaluation, and reproducibility.

2018 — 2022

MSc

Information Technology — Data Science

Islamic University of Gaza

Thesis: "Detecting and Cleaning Arabic Hate Speech Texts Using Deep Learning Approach". Built models with RNN, CNN, and Transformers, plus a parallel corpus for clean/dirty text translation.

Supervisor: Dr. Motaz Saad

2013 — 2017

BSc

Information Technology

Islamic University of Gaza

Foundation in software engineering, databases, web technologies, and computing fundamentals.

Continuing education

  • Machine Learning Applications Mercycorps · 2021
  • WordPress & Freelancing Mercycorps · 2017
  • Android Programming GAZASKYGEEKS · 2017 · 40h
  • Gaza Digital Training Ajyaal · 2016 · 96h
  • Photoshop Al-Azhar University · 2016 · 40h
  • TOT, Report Writing & Communication New Scope · 2015 · 48h
  • Computer Maintenance & Network Management Computer Land Center · 2015 · 70h
  • Java Programming Al-Azhar University · 2014 · 30h
  • English Conversation Islamic University · 2013 · 30h
  • Information Retrieval Tamar Alsayed
06 — Toolkit

Skills & expertise

AI & Machine Learning

NLP & Transformers 95%
XLM-RoBERTa / MARBERT 90%
Deep Learning (CNN, RNN, LSTM) 90%
PyTorch 90%
TensorFlow 85%
Hugging Face / ONNX 88%
Computer Vision (YOLOv8) 80%

Programming

Python 95%
SQL 90%
PHP 85%
JavaScript 85%
Flask 80%

Data & Business Intelligence

Power BI 85%
Looker Studio 88%
BigQuery 85%
PostgreSQL 88%
ETL Pipelines 90%

Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud 80%
Cron Jobs / Automation 90%
Git & GitHub 90%
Docker 70%

Research & Evaluation

ML Paper Review 92%
Experimental Validation 95%
Reproducibility Assessment 90%
Metric Analysis 92%

Languages

Arabic Native English Very Good Turkish Good
07 — Contact

Let's work together

Open to research collaborations, ML engineering roles, and consulting opportunities. The fastest way to reach me is by email or LinkedIn.

Email me salam.th.d@gmail.com Based in Ankara, Turkey Phone +90 505 630 25 11