Designing Discontinuities
Ibtihal Ferwana, Suyoung Park, Ting-Yi Wu, and Lav R. Varshney, “Designing Discontinuities” in Neural Compression Workshop (ICML 2023), Honolulu, Hawaii, 29 July 2023.
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Education
- Ph.D (current) Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.S. (2022) Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Thesis]
- B.S. (2019) Computer Science, Prince Sultan University
Work experience
- Research Intern [Summer 2020]
- Washington University in St. Louis, USA
- Built a named-entity recognition model on top of BERT language model which accomodates multitask learning
- Supervisor: Dr. Po-Yin Yen
- Data Scientist, Coop [Jan - Sep 2019]
- Mozn Systems, Riyahd Saudi Arabia
- Worked on wide-scale problems that incoporate nationwide data utilizing techniques including NLP modelling, data assessment, wrangling and preprocessing, geospatial analytics
- Web services and backend development for interactive data dashboards
- Research Intern [Summer 2017]
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
- Created a model to predict sentimental values based on a product reviews and images
- Supervisor: Prof. Milanova Mariofanna
- Undergraduate Research Assistant [2016-2017]
- Prince Sutlan University, CCIS Department, Saudi Arabia
- Assessed, wrangled, preprocessed large health records datasets for predictive analysis
- Supervisor: Prof. Sarab Almuhaideb
Publications
Sleeping and Waking of Disruptors
I. Ferwana and L. R. Varshney, “Sleeping and Waking of Disruptors,” presented at 2nd Annual International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), Evanston, IL, 26-28 June 2023.
Collision of Scholarly Fields
I. Ferwana and L. R. Varshney, “Collision of Scholarly Fields”, presented at 2nd Annual International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), Evanston, IL, 26-28 June 2023.
Learning Optimal Features via Partial Invariance
M. Choraria, I. Ferwana, A. Mani, and L. R. Varshney, “Learning Optimal Features via Partial Invariance,” in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, 7-14 February 2023.
Optimal Recovery for Causal Inference
I. Ferwana and L. R. Varshney, “Optimal Recovery for Causal Inference” arXiv:2208.06729 [stat.ME]
Balancing Robustness and Fairness via Partial Invariance
M. Choraria, I. Ferwana, A. Mani, and L. R. Varshney, “Balancing Robustness and Fairness via Partial Invariance,” in NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Robustness, 13 December 2021
Social Capital Dimensions are Differentially Associated with COVID-19 Vaccinations, Masks, and Physical Distancing
I. Ferwana and L. R. Varshney, “Social Capital Dimensions are Differentially Associated with COVID-19 Vaccinations, Masks, and Physical Distancing,” PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 12, e0260818, Dec. 2021
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Mental Health Patient Populations: Evidence from Medical Claims Data
Ferwana. I, Varshney. L (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Mental Health Patient Populations: Evidence from Medical Claims Data. Preprint MedRxiv; DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.26.21257598
Prediction of Hospital No-show Appointments through Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
AlMuhaideb. S, Alswailem. O, Alsubaie. N, Ferwana. I, Alnajem. A (2019). Prediction of hospital no-show appointments through artificial intelligence algorithms. Ann Saudi Med 2019; 39(6): 373-381 DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2019.373
Clustering Arabic Tweets for Saudi National Vision 2030
Ferwana. I, Alhenaki. D, Alfayez. A, Larabi. S. (2019) “Clustering Arabic Tweets for Saudi National Vision”. To appear in International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 2019
Product Sentiment Trend Prediction
Gala. V, Deshpande. V, Ferwana. I, Milanova. M (2018, July). Product Sentiment Trend Prediction. In International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media (pp. 274-283). Springer, Cham.
Smartphone Usage and Motivations among High School Students In Saudi Arabia
Ferwana. I. (2015). Smartphone usage and motivations among high-school students in Saudi Arabia. In the Proceedings of the First Undergraduate Research Forum at Prince Sultan University. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Available at (https://info.psu.edu.sa/pscw/urf/Forum_Proceedings.aspx)
Awards & Honors
- National Science Foundation (NSF-GRFP) Honorable Mention, 2022
- Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship, 2022
- SURGE Graduate Fellowship, 2022
- Student Google Travel Grant to attend Grace Hopper Conference 2019, Orlando
- Google Women Techmakers EMEA Scholar, 2018
- Considered as the first undergraduate female to be awarded from a Saudi university
- Top 90th-percentile in ACM Programming 14-hour Jam Contest, 2019
- Dean’s Honor List, 2016-2019
- Valedictorian and First place of the prestigious Hussam ElDeen AlHariry Award, 2014
Teaching
- Intedesciplinary Methods in Research Computing, Teaching assistance and Course development, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Java Programming, Tutor, Prince Sultan University
Extracurricular Activities
- Technical Mentor, Saudi Data Community [July 2019]
- Mentored and trained participants on using Python in a Data Science bootcamp
- Co-founder, AlgoCode Initiatve [2018]
- Campus-wide sessions to train and support female developers and future engineers
- Teacher, Community Rehabilitation Program [2017 – 2019]
- Developed curricula, mentored and taught underserved children who were not able to join schools
- Organizer, Cybercrimes Awareness Campaign [2017]
- Won the first place as the best awareness booth among other 12 participated booths on campus
- Co-founder & President, Toastmasters Club at PSU [2016-2017]
- Lead a team of six, and facilitated Toastmasters meetings, with achieving annual Toastmasters educational goals
- Co-founder & President, Student Research Club at PSU [2015-2016]
- Organized reseasrch sessions to be attended by the student body, hosted faculty talks, and organized the Undergraduate Research Forum