Kurdish NER with XLM-R
01Fine-tuned xlm-roberta-base for Named Entity Recognition in Kurmanji Kurdish. Achieved an F1 score of 0.87 on the test set.
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AI Developer @ Ovanya
Akam Nawzad
Specializing in machine learning and natural language processing.
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About
About me
Machine learning engineer focused on NLP and applied AI.
I work across the full ML lifecycle, from data collection to deployment. Currently focused on Kurdish language processing.
Experience
2025 - present
AI Developer
Ovanya
Building AI solutions with focus on machine learning and computer vision.
Sept 2024 - Oct 2024
AI Research Intern
UKH AI Center
Developed NLP models for Kurdish language processing. Collected and processed 140K+ news articles for training data.
July 2024 - Aug 2024
Frontend Developer Intern
Standing Tech
Built and maintained websites for local businesses.
Education
2021 - 2025
BSc in Software Engineering
University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH)
Focus on software development, algorithms, and AI.
2024
Ovanya AI Bootcamp
Ovanya • wedo
Intensive program on ML fundamentals and neural networks.
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Selected Work
Kurdish Dialect Classifier
02A web application that identifies whether Kurdish text is written in Sorani or Kurmanji. Achieved 92% classification accuracy.
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Gorrer - Kurdish Transliterator
03A web tool that converts Kurdish text between Arabic and Latin scripts with accurate transliteration.
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KurdType
04A platform for discovering and downloading open-licensed Kurdish fonts for content creators.
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Kurdish News Corpus
05Collected and processed over 140,000 Kurdish news articles for NLP research at UKH AI Center.
Fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Named Entity Recognition in Kurmanji Kurdish
06Peer-reviewed paper presented at the 9th Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP 2025), demonstrating an XLM-RoBERTa-based NER system for Kurmanji Kurdish with strong F1 scores.
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Skills
Frontend
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Vue.js
- Tailwind CSS
Design
- UI/UX Design
- Figma
- Adobe Photoshop
- Canva
Backend & Databases
- Python
- Flask
- PHP
- Node.js
- Express.js
- REST APIs
- MySQL
AI & Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Pandas
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy)
Tools & Technologies
- Git/GitHub
- Google Cloud
- Vercel/Render
- VS Code
- Postman
- npm/yarn
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Contact
Interested in working together?
akam.nawzad@ukh.edu.krd