Resume
General Information
Full Name | Muhammad Umar Farooq |
mufarooq40@gmail.com | |
Webpage | https://umar17.github.io |
Languages | Urdu, English |
Education
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2021 - Present PhD Computer Science
University of Sheffield, UK. - Research focus
- Cross-lingual acoustic-phonetic similarities in the context of multilingual speech recognition
- Research focus
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2017-19 MSc Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering & Technolog Lahore, Pakistan - CGPA
- 3.68/4.00
- CGPA
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2013-17 BSc Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering & Technolog Lahore, Pakistan - CGPA
- 3.42/4.00
- CGPA
Experience
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2022 - Present Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Sheffield, UK - Assist teachers in delievering lab sessions of various undergraduate and masters level modules (further details on Teaching page)
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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'
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2017-2020 Research Officer
Center for Language Engineering, UET Lahore - R&D of speech technologies for low-resource Pakistani languages
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