Nadine Donia, a student at Lycée Français International D’Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia, has pursued various academic and entrepreneurial endeavours. She participated in the Immerse essay contest on medicine, winning a scholarship to their Cambridge programme with an essay on neuroscience and its societal impact. She is also the founder and CEO of “Help”, a mobile application that sends distress signals to verified contacts when activated.
Her academic pursuits include completing an introductory neuroscience course through MIT OpenCourseWare and several computer science courses on FreeCodeCamp. She authors a newsletter on neuroscience, AI, and their societal implications, which has garnered over 1,500 subscribers, and is working on a book about AI and the need for global regulation.
Nadine’s research paper, Sentiment Analysis of Arabic-English Code-Switched Data: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Lexicon-Based Approaches, was accepted at the 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 34). Hosted by Leiden University on 30 August 2024, the event brought together experts to discuss advances in computational linguistics, including AI applications, machine translation, and text analysis.
Congratulations to Nadine on this achievement!
