Alina Faisal
Location
Ann Arbor, MI
Education
U
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
August 2024 - May 2026
expected degree
Master's
major
Data Science
minor
Computer Science
L
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Work Experience
C
Countering Misinformation
Research Intern
Lahore, PK
January 2023 - May 2024
company
Countering Misinformation
title
Research Intern
overview
- Pakistan
- Conducted a pilot study through game testing, 15 semi-structured interviews and a survey on 40 LUMS students (control and treatment) and worked on the end line and baseline of the game comprising three interventions
- Applied independent 2 samples t-test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to evaluate the effectiveness of the gamification-based
- Worked on three inoculation strategies (emotional appeal, scapegoating, false dichotomy) to create a political video clip
- Developed and designed game-based digital media literacy interventions for countering misinformation in Pakistan under the supervision of Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
L
LUMS CS and Mathematics Department
Teaching Assistant
Lahore, PK
September 2022 - December 2023
C
CSaLT
Research Intern
Lahore, PK
September 2022 - December 2023
M
MITACS Globalink GRI
Research Intern
June 2023 - August 2023
A
AdAxiom
Software Engineer Intern
Lahore, PK
August 2022 - September 2022
Skills
Languages
EnglishUrdu
Skills
Adobe PhotoshopAdobe XDAlgorithmsApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)ArchitectureArduinoArtificial Neural NetworksBiometricsCardiologyCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Causal InferenceClinical WorksComputer ProgrammingC++ (Programming Language)Creating PrototypesCriminal JusticeData AnalysisDatabasesData CleansingData ScienceData StructuresDeep LearningDifferential EquationsDigital MediaDjango Web FrameworkEconomyElectrical TransformersEstimation TheoriesExecution of ExperimentsFeature SelectionFigmaFocus GroupForecasting SkillsFront End Software DevelopmentGamificationGithubHealth InformaticsHTML5Human-Computer InteractionInformation TechnologyInoculationInternational Financial EconomicsIterative DesignJavaScript (Programming Language)JSONJupyterKaggleKerasKnowledge of Cardiovascular DiseaseKnowledge of EconometricsKnowledge of MathematicsKnowledge of StatisticsKnowledge of VocabulariesLarge Language ModelsLaTeXLeadershipLinear AlgebraLinear ModelLinear RegressionLiteracyLogistic RegressionMachine LearningMacroeconomicsMATLABMatplotlibMechanical AssemblyMetricsMicroeconomicsMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Visual StudioMicrosoft WordNaive BayesNumerical AnalysisNumPyOpen Source TechnologyOperations ResearchPandasPediatricsPerformance ManagementPharmacologyPredictive Data AnalysisProblem SolvingProgramming ToolsPython (Programming Language)PytorchRandom ForestReactJSResearch SkillsRisk FactorsR (Programming Language)Scikit LearnSciPySimulinkSpeaker RecognitionSpelling and GrammarSpoofingSPSS (Software)SQL DatabasesStataStoryboardingStrategic ThinkingStructured InterviewsTalk ShowTeachingTensorflowTesting SkillsT-testUsability TestingUser FlowsUser PersonaUser ResearchWeb ApplicationsWeb DevelopmentWebsite WireframeXgboost