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Majd Hawasly is a scientist at the Arabic Language Technologies group at Qatar Computing Research Institute. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2014 in a topic at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. He then joined Five AI, a UK-based autonomous driving startup, where he eventually became a lead research scientist at the applied research team in motion planning and prediction. His research interest lies in developing robust and intelligent AI systems that continually learn and adapt.
Research Interests
- Robust Intelligent Systems
- Large language models
- Interpretability & explainability
- Lifelong Learning
- Sequential Decision Making
Experience
- 2023 - Present
Scientist - Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar Computing Research Institute - 2022 - 2023
Lead Research Scientist - Motion Planning and Prediction, Five AI Ltd - 2020 - 2022
Senior Research Scientist - Motion Planning and Prediction, Five AI Ltd - 2017 - 2020
Research Scientist - Motion Planning and Prediction, Five AI Ltd - 2016 - 2017
Research Fellow - School of Computing, University of Leeds
Education/Academic qualification
Informatics, PhD, Policy space abstraction for a lifelong learning agent, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 27 Nov 2014
Artificial Intelligence, Master, Heriot-Watt University
Award Date: 19 Nov 2009
Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Damascus University
Award Date: 11 Jul 2006
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Projects
- 1 Active
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HBKU-OVPR-TG-03-12: Interactive Multimodal AI for High-precision Medical Diagnosis
Hawasly, M. (Principal Investigator), Gilal, N. U. I. (Principal Investigator), Lu, Z. (Lead Principal Investigator) & Ozer, E. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/25 → 31/10/27
Project: Applied Research
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Exploring Alignment in Shared Cross-lingual Spaces
Mousi, B., Durrani, N., Dalvi, F., Hawasly, M. & Abdelali, A., 24 Mar 2024, Long Papers. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. F. T. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 6326-6348 23 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Improving Language Models Trained on Translated Data with Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis
Boughorbel, S., Parvez, M. R. & Hawasly, M., 23 May 2024, ArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference. Habash, N., Bouamor, H., Eskander, R., Tomeh, N., Farha, I. A., Abdelali, A., Touileb, S., Hamed, I., Onaizan, Y., Alhafni, B., Antoun, W., Khalifa, S., Haddad, H., Zitouni, I., AlKhamissi, B., Almatham, R. & Mrini, K. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 73-88 16 p. (ArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
Abdelali, A., Mubarak, H., Chowdhury, S. A., Hasanain, M., Mousi, B., Boughorbel, S., Abdaljalil, S., Kheir, Y. E., Izham, D., Dalvi, F., Hawasly, M., Nazar, N., Elshahawy, Y., Ali, A., Durrani, N., Milic-Frayling, N. & Alam, F., Mar 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 487-520 34 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
45 Citations (Scopus) -
LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking
Dalvi, F., Hasanain, M., Boughorbel, S., Mousi, B., Abdaljalil, S., Nazar, N., Abdelali, A., Chowdhury, S. A., Mubarak, H., Ali, A., Hawasly, M., Durrani, N. & Alam, F., Mar 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations. Aletras, N. & De Clercq, O. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 214-222 9 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
11 Citations (Scopus) -
Scaling up Discovery of Latent Concepts in Deep NLP Models
Hawasly, M., Dalvi, F. & Durrani, N., 22 Mar 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 793-806 14 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)