Fay Saleh

Unit 10, 71 Union Street, Brighton East 3187, Australia, fay.saleh@dolanto.com.au

Fay Saleh, Ph. D., is a highly accomplished senior AI scientist with a strong academic background and rich industry experience. She holds a doctoral degree in Generative AI from Monash University and has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO in The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), where her focus was on developing AI-driven personalized support platforms with the aim of automating cancer staging and detecting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Additionally, Fay gained valuable industry experience from her work at NAVER LABS Europe (formerly known as Xerox Research Centre Europe - XRCE) in France, where she specialized in generative models.

Moreover, Fay served as a senior AI scientist at Oracle, a renowned technology company at the forefront of innovation with its cloud-based platforms and enterprise software. In her role, she contributes to advancements in Digital Assistants through cutting-edge Deep Learning technology, shaping the next generation of Digital Assistants to provide intelligent, integrated, and secure solutions.

In her current capacity, Fay is at the helm of AI Projects within Dolanto, an innovative dynamic startup. Leveraging her extensive expertise as a senior AI scientist, Fay takes on a pivotal leadership role, guiding the company's AI initiatives to new heights.

For more information, visit her LinkedIn profile at the provided link.


(Recent) Experience

Senior AI Scientist

Oracle
March 2022 - Current

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO
July 2021 - March 2022

Teaching associate

Monash University
Feb 2018 - Oct 2021

Research Intern

Naver Labs Europe
March 2019 - September 2019

Researcher & Developer

ICT Research Institute of ACECR
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017

Software Engineer/ Java Developer

Douran Information Technology Company
Nov 2015 - June 2016

Education

Monash University

PhD | Artificial Intelligence
2017 - 2021

Alzahra University

MSc | Artificial Intelligence
2012 - 2015

University of Isfahan

BSc | Software Engineering
2007 - 2011

(Recent) Publications and Patents

  • Ioan Calapodescu , Alexandre Berard, Fahimeh Saleh, Laurent Besacier "Method and system for training document-level natural language processing models", (US PATENT), 2021 [PDF]
  • Fahimeh Saleh, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari, Lan Du "Multilingual Neural Machine Translation: Can Linguistic Hierarchies Help?", (EMNLP), 2021 [PDF]
  • Fahimeh Saleh, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari, "Collective Wisdom: Improving Low-resource Neural Machine Translation using Adaptive Knowledge Distillation", The 28th International Conference of Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020 [PDF]
  • Sameen Maruf, Fahimeh Saleh, Gholamreza Haffari, "A Survey on Document-level Machine Translation: Methods and Evaluation", ACM Computing Surveys journal, 2020 [PDF]
  • Fahimeh Saleh, Alexandre Berard, Ioan Calapodescu, Laurent Besacier, "Naver Labs Europes Systems for the Document-Level Generation and Translation Task at WNGT 2019.", 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (WNGT), 2019 [PDF]
  • Fahimeh Saleh, Reza Azmi, "Automatic multiple regions segmentation of dermoscopy images", International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing (AISP), 2015 [PDF]
  • Fahimeh Saleh, Reza Azmi, "Automated Lesion Border Detection of Dermoscopy Images Using Spectral Clustering", publication description International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IPRIA), 2015 [PDF]
  • M. S. Aliakbarian, F. S. Saleh, Fahimeh Saleh, F. Aliakbarian, "Robust Optical Character Recognition under Geometrical Transformations", International Journal of Computer & Information Technologies (IJOCIT), 2014 [PDF]
  • M. S. Aliakbarian, F. S. Saleh, Fahimeh Saleh, F. Aliakbarian, "Robust Face Detection and Recognition under Ambient Light and Head Pose", 7th International Conference on Computer, Information Technology and Digital Media (CITaDiM'13), 2013 [PDF]

News and Highlights

  • I joined to ODA group in Oracle, Melbourne as a Senior AI scientist.
  • I joined CSIRO in The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), Brisbane as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
  • After a wonderful 3.5 years, I just finished my PhD at Monash! Please find my thesis here
  • Our paper about mitigating negative transfer in multilingual NMT using hierarchical knowledge distillation has been accepted to EMNLP 2021.
  • Our paper about improving low-resource NMT using adaptive knowledge distillation has been accepted to COLING2020. [PDF]
  • Our survey paper about document-level MT is now publicly available. [PDF]
  • We Ranked 1st in all sub-tracks for Document-Level Generation and Translation shared task at WNGT 2019.
  • I achieved a student travel grant for EMNLP 2019.
  • I achieved the Intern Award in Naver Labs Europe Intern Day, 2019.
  • I joined Naver Labs Europe as a six-month internship program.