معرفی
H. M. Zafer is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, specializing in Arabian and African Languages through pre-modern networks of knowledge spanning 6th-16th century Horn of Africa and Western Arabian societies. He also serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Program in African Studies.
Education:
- PhD from Cornell University (2014)
Zafer's research focuses on historical linguistics, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, particularly analyzing the Ecumenical Community in the context of Red Sea wars and Early Muslim communitarianism. His current projects include The Comrades of the Ship (Early Muslim historiography) and The Ethiopic Quran (16th-century Ge'ez commentary on the Quran).
His scholarly contributions bridge interdisciplinary themes in comparative literature, religious studies, and computational methodologies through his earlier work in machine learning applications for bioinformatics and natural language processing.
Scientific Awards:
- Mellon-Sawyer Fellow, University of Notre Dame
- Katz Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
His publications from 1997-2009 explore hierarchical classification, Bayesian aggregation techniques, and neural networks applied to genomic prediction, linguistic analysis, and automated puzzle generation, demonstrating technical expertise in algorithm development and data modeling.
