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I am Maksim Abdul Latif, a transdisciplinary AI audio developer, musicologist, and writer whose work spans philosophy, Arabic studies, and digital humanities. I combine technical skills with a deep appreciation for music history, heritage, and narrative craft to explore responsible AI, multilingual language technologies, and archival projects. Born in Russia in 1977 and raised in Syria, I am now a Dutch citizen, balancing research, teaching, and creative practice—piano performance, poetry, plays, and translations—while pursuing innovative intersections of AI, language, and memory in cultural heritage contexts.…I am Maksim Abdul Latif, a transdisciplinary AI audio developer, musicologist, and writer whose work spans philosophy, Arabic studies, and digital humanities. I combine technical skills with a deep appreciation for music history, heritage, and narrative craft to explore responsible AI, multilingual language technologies, and archival projects. Born in Russia in 1977 and raised in Syria, I am now a Dutch citizen, balancing research, teaching, and creative practice—piano performance, poetry, plays, and translations—while pursuing innovative intersections of AI, language, and memory in cultural heritage contexts.

Maksim Abdul Latif

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I am Maksim Abdul Latif, a transdisciplinary AI audio developer, musicologist, and writer whose work spans philosophy, Arabic studies, and digital humanities. I combine technical skills with a deep appreciation for music history, heritage, and narrative craft to explore responsible AI, multilingual language technologies, and archival projects. Born in Russia in 1977 and raised in Syria, I am now a Dutch citizen, balancing research, teaching, and creative practice—piano performance, poetry, plays, and translations—while pursuing innovative intersections of AI, language, and memory in cultural heritage contexts.…I am Maksim Abdul Latif, a transdisciplinary AI audio developer, musicologist, and writer whose work spans philosophy, Arabic studies, and digital humanities. I combine technical skills with a deep appreciation for music history, heritage, and narrative craft to explore responsible AI, multilingual language technologies, and archival projects. Born in Russia in 1977 and raised in Syria, I am now a Dutch citizen, balancing research, teaching, and creative practice—piano performance, poetry, plays, and translations—while pursuing innovative intersections of AI, language, and memory in cultural heritage contexts.

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I am Maksim Abdul Latif, a transdisciplinary AI audio developer, musicologist, and writer whose work spans philosophy, Arabic studies, and digital humanities. I combine technical skills with a deep appreciation for music history, heritage, and narrative craft to explore responsible AI, multilingual language technologies, and archival projects.

Born in Russia in 1977 and raised in Syria, I am now a Dutch citizen, balancing research, teaching, and creative practice—piano performance, poetry, plays, and translations—while pursuing innovative intersections of AI, language, and memory in cultural heritage contexts.

Skills

Audacity

Google Drive

DaVinci Resolve Studio

Adobe After Effects

Autodesk Maya

Experience Level

Audacity

Expert

Google Drive

Expert

DaVinci Resolve Studio

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Beginner

Language

Arabic

Fluent

Russian

Fluent

English

Fluent

Dutch

Advanced

Work Experience

AI Audio Developer at Aviavox B. V.

January 1, 2025 - Present

Driving innovation by integrating Aviavox’s AI systems with cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), TTS, and next-generation audio intelligence architectures.

Researcher at University of Amsterdam

January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2024

NWO Hesita Grant, PhD Pilot: From Archive to Network: Syrian Music in the Jaap Kunst Audio Collection and Beyond.

Research Assistant at Utrecht University

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019

eScience centre CLARIAH project, Bridging the gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus. Tasks included collaboration facilitation, data processing, text manipulation (Python, R), corpus building, and co-writing articles.

Translator at Aviavox B. V.

January 1, 2018 - Present

Translator and language expert: English Arabic, English Russian.

Student Assistant at Utrecht University

January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Christian Lange, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department.

Internship at Amsterdam University

January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

Cataloging the Arabic Music recordings of Jaap Kunst Collection.

Lecturer at Damascus Conservatory

January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2013

Teaching The History of Western Classical Music.