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Hana Ali Rashid
Aspiration Statement
I aspire to carve out a career path that encompasses roles allowing me to embrace the spirit of scientific curiosity and research, as well as human-centered and visual design.
Core Skills
- Communication Skills
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Python
- Qualitative Research
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Dean's List, Fall 2020
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- President, Natural Science Club
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Student Researcher, Karachi Water Project (January 2023 – February 2023)
- Research Intern, Texas A&M University (May 2022 – July 2022)
- Intern, Folio3 (June 2019 – July 2019)
Final Year Project
Project Title
AI-based Screener to Detect Signs of Dyslexia in Children's Handwriting
Description
Our Capstone project is an EdTech research project aimed at developing a computational screening system to detect signs of dyslexia in children's handwriting. Diagnosis and intervention are critical, as it hinders academic activity, self-esteem, and long-term quality of life. Due to the complex diagnosis processes, contextual gaps in methods, and a lack of availability of remedial therapists and clinical psychologists in Pakistan, our study explores the potential of computationally screening for dyslexia by analyzing children's handwriting to make screening more accessible. Our developed screener was tested with handwriting samples of 18 children between the ages of 5 and 15, using classification models to predict the risk of dyslexia. There was 70% accuracy using transfer learning, showing potential for increased accuracy when paired with larger data samples and better optimization techniques.