Bashar Kabbarah

Bashar Kabbarah

Biography

Bashar Kabbarah is a freshman studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar and a member of the SEED Scholars Honors Program. His research interests center on the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning models in scientific applications, spanning computational imaging, automated analysis pipelines, and computer vision for quality-critical domains. He has conducted research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley’s DNA Sequencing Facility, and the Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program, with work published in the Journal of Emerging Investigators. Most recently, Bashar worked as a Machine Learning Engineering Intern at BFAI Semiconductor Solutions, a Japanese startup working on computer vision for semiconductor manufacturing. Bashar intends to pursue a PhD in machine learning, with a focus on building robust and interpretable models for scientific computing. In his free time, Bashar enjoys weight lifting, hiking, and trying new foods.