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Layla El Asri
Layla El Asri is a team lead at Borealis AI. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Université de Lorraine in France in 2016. Her Ph.D. was a joint project between Université de Lorraine and Orange Labs. Her research focused on improving dialogue systems with machine learning. She developed methods to train dialogue systems faster while respecting strong industrial constraints. After her Ph.D, she joined Maluuba, a Canadian startup, in 2016 as a research scientist where she worked on user simulation, reinforcement learning, and datasets for dialogue systems. Layla then joined Microsoft, through the acquisition of Maluuba, in 2017 as a research manager leading a team focused on conversational AI and natural language processing. She is continuing her work on natural language processing at Borealis AI.