MSc Computational Modelling and Simulation, TU Dresden
I am a graduate student in computer science working on machine learning, computer vision and the evaluation methods that tell you whether a system does what it claims to. I have two first-author papers accepted this year, one on multilingual language models and one on detection for species a dataset barely contains.
I am finishing my master's thesis at ScaDS.AI, where I am building an evaluation harness for knowledge generated by language models. My background spans the UAE and Germany.
Hiring a research engineer, applied scientist or ML engineer? I am available from December 2026 and would like to hear from teams that build or evaluate machine learning systems.
Email meDoes Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis
EMNLP 2026, Main Conference, short paper
A representation-level test of a widely repeated assumption about multilingual models, run across 26 Arabic varieties and five architectures.
Closing the Rare-Species Detection Gap in UAE Camera Traps with Diffusion-Generated Data
ICICT 2026, published by Springer, pp. 342–351
Synthetic training images for the species a long-tailed camera-trap dataset barely contains.
2023 – 2024
Final-year project, American University of Sharjah
A deployed multimodal web application that analyses speech, facial expression and transcript together and returns personalised feedback. Presented to stakeholders at a startup incubator.
GPT-4 · OpenCV · speech processing
2025
TU Dresden
An autonomous racing agent trained with Proximal Policy Optimization, learning navigation and obstacle avoidance from scratch.
PPO · Stable-Baselines3 · Python
2024
Computer vision course project
Benchmarked Detectron2 backbones against YOLO and RT-DETR for recyclable-item detection, reaching an AP50 of 47.
Detectron2 · YOLO · RT-DETR
2025 – 2026
DaTNet, Dresden
Collected and presented research outputs from a BMBF-funded network on data trust and governance, largely by redesigning and maintaining its website. Moderated workshops where researchers presented to practitioners.
2023
Schneider Electric, Dubai
Built an end-to-end customer-support prototype, improving answer quality through prompt engineering and systematic evaluation. Won an internal innovation and security competition and presented the system to the regional vice-president.
2022
Dastech IT Solutions, Dubai
Analysed a small business's infrastructure needs and implemented a cloud solution on Azure and AWS, supporting its setup and deployment.
2024 – present
Technical University of Dresden
Master's thesis at ScaDS.AI. Coursework in machine learning, computer vision and deep neural network hardware.
2020 – 2024
American University of Sharjah
GPA 3.61 / 4.0. Inducted into Tau Beta Pi and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu for academic performance.
