Resume

General Information

Full Name Muhammad Umar Farooq
Email mufarooq40@gmail.com
Webpage https://umar17.github.io
Languages Urdu, English

Experience

  • 2024 - Present
    Applied Research Scientist
    Emotech Ltd., UK
  • 2022 - 2024
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    University of Sheffield, UK
    • Assisted module leaders in delivering lab sessions of various undergraduate and postgraduate modules (further details on Teaching page)
    • Marked assignments and exams
  • 2020
    Pre-doc Intern
    Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL), Charles University, Prague
    • Manages speech-related components of EU Horizon 2020 project 'European Live Translator'
  • 2017-2020
    Research Officer
    Center for Language Engineering, UET Lahore
    • R&D of speech technologies for low-resource Pakistani languages

Education

  • 2021 - 24
    PhD Computer Science
    University of Sheffield, UK.
    • Thesis
      • Non-linear Cross-lingual Mappings for Low-resource Speech Recognition
  • 2017 - 19
    MSc Electrical Engineering
    University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan
    • CGPA
      • 3.68/4.00
  • 2013 - 17
    BSc Electrical Engineering
    University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan
    • CGPA
      • 3.42/4.00

Activities

    • Member Local Organising Committee of UK Speech 2023
    • Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of IEEE O-COCOSDA since 2019
    • Peer reviewer for LRE, JASA, ICASSP and many others

Memberships

    • IEEE
    • ISCA