People

Basmah Altaf

PhD Student
Pursued her Ph.D. degree at MINE Lab from July 2013 to November 2019.

Dissertation entitled “A Study of Fairness and Information Heterogeneity in Recommendation Systems”​.
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First employment: ML researcher and practitioner, Huawei Canada, Montreal.
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Introduction


Research Interests

​​Recommender systems, Data mining

Education

  • B. E., Computer & Information Systems, N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, 2010
  • M. S., Computer Science, KAUST, 2011-2013
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, KAUST, 2013-2019

Awards

  • 'Gold Medal' for securing '1st Position' among 140 students in Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Systems Engineering at N.E.D. University, Karachi, Pakistan​