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Johanne Medina is an AI researcher and full-stack developer with over four years of hands-on experience building smart, scalable applications. Recently, she’s been responsible with the development of a multilingual educational chatbot at QCRI powered by Azure services, OpenAI, and RAG. The platform currently supports students and teachers around the world. Now, she's working on reliability estimation in LLMs as part of Responsible AI efforts, and developing a reliability-aware agentic system for transportation application.
Her technical toolkit spans Python, React Native, React JS, LLMs, Fast API, SQL, and she’s well-versed in cloud-native development, containerization, and modern app architecture.
Beyond building products, Johanne is a natural leader and community builder. She’s helped organize major AI events like the MENA Machine Learning Winter School with Google DeepMind and the Fanar Hackathon, and regularly participates in workshops that bring innovators together to solve real-world problems. She’s passionate about making AI practical, inclusive, and impactful, whether through startups, research, or developer enablement.
Education/Academic qualification
Data Science and Engineering, Master, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Award Date: 4 May 2023
Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Award Date: 29 May 2020
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EX-MOT-AI-2: Reliability of Large Language Models for Transportation Applications
Chawla, S. (Lead Principal Investigator) & Medina, J. G. D. (Research Associate)
1/05/25 → 30/04/27
Project: Experimental Development/Translation Research
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HBKU-OVPR-HHW-01-6: 1st international Workshop on Biomimicry: Lessons from Nature for Sustainable Materials Design.
Aissa, B. (Principal Investigator), Chawla, S. (Principal Investigator), Bentria, E. T. (Lead Principal Investigator), Medina, J. G. D. (Principal Investigator) & Haboub, A. (Principal Investigator)
2/09/25 → 11/03/26
Project: Applied Research
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HBKU-OVPR-TG-Cycle-2-22: CipherBot: An AI-based Bilingual Interactive Platform for Supporting Progressive Education through Collaborative Storytelling
Jung, S.-G. (Engineer), Tok, E. (Principal Investigator), Medina, J. G. D. (Research Associate), Omar, A. (Undergraduate Student), Alawyia, N. (Undergraduate Student), Elhanafi, Z. (Undergraduate Student) & Saleh, J. Y. M. (Research Assistant)
1/06/23 → 31/05/26
Project: Experimental Development/Translation Research
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Can LLMs Detect Their Confabulations? Estimating Reliability in Uncertainty-Aware Language Models
Zhou, T., Medina, J. & Chawla, S., 14 Mar 2026, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Koenig, S., Jenkins, C. & Taylor, M. E. (eds.). 44 ed. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, p. 38164-38172 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 40, no. 44).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Cipherbot: An AI-Powered Educational Assistant for Conversational Q&A about Course Material
Azem, J., Jung, S. G., Medina, J., Aldous, K. K., Salminen, J. & Jansen, B. J., 28 Nov 2025, 2025 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models, FLLM 2025. Erenli, K., Guetl, C., Jararweh, Y. & Jansen, J. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 660-667 8 p. (2025 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models, FLLM 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Cipherbot: A Learning Platform for AI-Augmented Education
Jung, S. G., Medina, J., Aldous, K., Azem, J., Salminen, J. & Jansen, B. J., 9 Oct 2025, AHs 2025 - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025. Abdelrahman, Y., Vargo, A., Withana, A., Tag, B., Henze, N. & Chan, L. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 478-481 4 p. (AHs 2025 - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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EduX-RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework for Cross-Lingual Educational Chatbots
Medina, J., Gyo-Jung, S., Salminen, J., Aldous, K. K. & Jansen, B. J., 28 Nov 2025, 2025 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models, FLLM 2025. Erenli, K., Guetl, C., Jararweh, Y. & Jansen, J. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 465-473 9 p. (2025 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models, FLLM 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Examining Student Teachers’ Agency in an AI-Supported Learning Environment: Q Methodology Research
Chaaban, Y., Jung, S. G., Medina, J., Azem, J. Y., Salminen, J. & Jansen, B. J., Dec 2025, In: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 35, 6, p. 4083-4107 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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