Who is Reem Sharaf?

Reem Sharaf is a Software Engineer, AI Researcher & Developer and University Lecturer based in Damascus, Syria, with 7 years of academic experience and a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI model training.

المهندسة ريم شرف مهندسة برمجيات وباحثة في الذكاء الاصطناعي ومحاضِرة جامعية، لديها 7 سنوات من الخبرة الأكاديمية وتركيز قوي على الذكاء الاصطناعي ونماذج اللغة الكبيرة (LLMs) وتدريب نماذج الذكاء الاصطناعي. تتابع حالياً دراسة الماجستير في علوم الويب باختصاص الذكاء الاصطناعي، وتجري أبحاثاً في تدريب نماذج الذكاء الاصطناعي وضبطها الدقيق وتقييمها وتحسينها باستخدام Python. تمتلك خبرة في هندسة البرمجيات، وتحليل النظم وتصميمها، وتعليم علوم الحاسوب المتقدمة، والإشراف على المشاريع الأكاديمية، مع مهارات برمجية قوية في Python وC# وC++ وJava. تعمل محاضِرة جامعية في جامعة القلمون الخاصة منذ أيلول 2019، وتقيم في دمشق، سوريا.

Reem Sharaf has been a University Lecturer at Al-Kalamoon Private University (on-site, Syria) since September 2019, teaching Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Compiler Design and Artificial Intelligence within the Information Engineering program.

For her Master's thesis, Reem Sharaf designed and developed an intelligent system that generates structured Arabic university lectures from real course and reference data using LLMs. She fine-tuned and evaluated Qwen3-8B, using dataset development, data augmentation, prompt engineering, ontology-based knowledge representation and multi-agent AI workflows. The results are being prepared for scientific publication.

Reem Sharaf is pursuing a Master's Degree in Web Science with an Artificial Intelligence specialization at the Syrian Virtual University (2025 – present). She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering, Software Engineering specialization, from Damascus University (2013 – 2018).

Python, C#, C++ and Java. She also works with ASP.NET Core Web API, Hugging Face, Transformers, RabbitMQ and Ocelot API Gateway.

Version Control (Meta, Coursera, Jan 2023), Programming with JavaScript (Meta, Coursera, Dec 2022), Introduction to Front-End Development (Meta, Coursera, Nov 2022) and Academic Advising Training & Qualification (Al-Kalamoon Private University, Aug 2021). She also received a Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Cooperation in Academic Development from the Faculty of Engineering, Al-Kalamoon Private University (Sep 2021).

By email at reemsharaf0@gmail.com, by phone at +963 936 471 379, or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/reem-sharaf1. Her CV can be downloaded from reemsharaf.vercel.app.