Hamza Harkous
Research Scientist
I am an applied AI researcher with experience in usable privacy and natural language processing. I am currently a Research Scientist at Google, working in the Applied Privacy Group. Before that, I was part of Amazon Alexa’s language understanding and generation team.
My portfolio includes Polisis, a system for visualizing privacy policies using machine learning, PriBot, a chatbot for automated question answering for privacy policies, an online wellbeing ML stack at Privately for assisting online children safety, and PrivySeal, an automated privacy assistant for installing cloud apps.
Interests
- Usable Privacy and Security
- Natural Language Processing
- Human Computer Interaction
Education
PhD in Data-driven, Personalized Usable Privacy, 2017
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
MsC in Communication Systems, 2012
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
BSc in Computer and Communications Engineering, 2010
American University of Beirut
