Nasser AlKhazraji

Front-end web app visualizing and analyzing artists’ musical audio features through Spotify’s Web API

• Quantified and visualized an artist’s signature sound across their discography using specific audio features
• Skills: Python, CSS, API, Model Deployment, App Development

Implemented seminal work of Leon Gatys et al. using VGG19 image classification network architecture to extract deep image feature representations and merge the content and style of different images

• Skills: Python, TensorFlow, Computer Vision, Convolutional Neural Network

An XGBoost ensemble model predicting house prices of the Boston real estate market

• Final model predicted sales price for houses with an RMSE of 0.122
• Skills: Python, Imputation, Regression, Feature Engineering, XGBoost, Ensemble Models

Predicted the speed and adoptability of stray animals in shelters with a Cohen’s kappa score of 0.439

• Integrated image feature extraction, image metadata, entity sentiment, text mining, and tabular data
• Skills: Python, Keras, Google Vision, Google NLP, Convolutional Neural Network, TF-IDF

University of Ottawa

Publication – Bashkeel, N., Perkins, T., Kærn, M., Lee, J. “Human Gene Expression Variability and its Dependence on Methylation and Aging” – BMC Genomics (2019)

• Publication – Bashkeel, N., Perkins, T., Kærn, M., Lee, J. “Human Gene Expression Variability and its Dependence on Methylation and Aging” – BMC Genomics (2019)
• Developed novel algorithm to define gene expression variability across human populations
• Highlighted Coursework – Categorical Data Analysis, Computational Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
• UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Graduate Research Scholarship

University of Ottawa

• UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Graduate Research Scholarship

• Complete Guide to Tensorflow for Deep Learning with Python
• Andrew NG - Machine Learning
• Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp
• Data Science & Machine Learning with R

• The Complete SQL Bootcamp
• Statistics with R - Advanced Level
• Web Scraping: Doing 20 Real Web Scraping Projects