Full resume can be found here.

Education

Teaching Experience

Leading ARBML an open source initiative for Arabic NLP. Our discord contains +500 members.
Founding Member of fihm.ai. An initiative to release Arabic AI resources.
Organized Birds-of-Feather: Low Resource NLP at Colling 2020.

Cofounder of ARBML for democratizing Arabic NLP by revising the NLP pipeline for Arabic. We have many tools for preprocessing, tokenization, training and deployment. Our community on discord has +500 members.
AttentionNN Implementations of attention in many models like transformers and GPT.
Enriching Arabic content with two datasets: MetRec and Calliar.
Creator of klaam and whisperar, Arabic speech recognition and text-to-speech libraries.
Designed many easy to use creative applications for deep learning.
Founding member of fihm.ai, where we publish Arabic articles on AI.

C4AI member working on the Aya project for multilignual instruction tuning 2023-now.
HuggingFace whisper finetuning Dec 2022.
BigScience member with focus on tokenization, data sourcing and prompt engineering 2021-2022.
HuggingFace XLSR-Wav2Vec2 Fine-Tuning Week for Low-Resource Languages 22-29 Mar 2021.
HuggingFace datasets sprint 1-13 Dec 2020.
Collaborated with researchers from Aramco for ESP failure prediction using different techniques of machine learning 2019-2021.
I worked on distributed training of GPT-2 on 4 GPUs for Arabic poetry generation in collaboration with Kyle McDonald 2019-2020.
Collaborated with researchers from CPG at KFUPM for modelling sand dunes 2019-2020.

Fourth in the Barmjan compeition, where we created an app for poetry analysis called Qawafi, 2022.
Second in the Ai in sport challenge with our solution Ain sports, 2022.
First in the integration contest at KFUPM, 2013.

July 25, 2020

Talk at Pydata Riyadh, online

July 25, 2020

Talk at NLP with Friends, online

July 01, 2022

Talk at ML Collective, online

Check the publications pages.