Sep 23–26, 2019
Saif  Addin Ellafi

Saif Addin Ellafi
Software Developer, John Snow Labs

Saif Addin Ellafi is a software developer at John Snow Labs, where he’s the main contributor to Spark NLP. A data scientist, forever student, and an extreme sports and gaming enthusiast, Saif has wide experience in problem solving and quality assurance in the banking and finance industry.

Sessions

1:30pm5:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Location: 1A 23/24
David Talby (Pacific AI), Alex Thomas (John Snow Labs), Saif Addin Ellafi (John Snow Labs), Claudiu Branzan (Accenture)
David Talby, Alex Thomas, Saif Addin Ellafi, and Claudiu Branzan walk you through state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) using the highly performant, highly scalable open source Spark NLP library. You'll spend about half your time coding as you work through four sections, each with an end-to-end working codebase that you can change and improve. Read more.
1:15pm1:55pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Location: 3B - Expo Hall
Saif Addin Ellafi (John Snow Labs), Scott Hoch (BlackBox Engineering)
Recruiting patients for clinical trials is a major challenge in drug development. Saif Addin Ellafi and Scott Hoch explain how Deep 6 uses Spark NLP to scale its training and inference pipelines to millions of patients while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy. They dive into the technical challenges, the architecture of the full solution, and the lessons the company learned. Read more.
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