Researchers

Provost at MBZUAI. One of the leading NLP researchers globally, focusing on multilingual and low-resource language processing.

President and Professor at MBZUAI. Pioneer in machine learning and AI, founding President of MBZUAI since 2019.

Professor at MBZUAI. Renowned for his work on misinformation detection, Arabic NLP, and question answering.

Associate Professor at MBZUAI and researcher at Australian National University. Known for contributions to vision transformers and efficient deep learning.

Professor at MBZUAI and Linköping University. One of the most cited computer vision researchers, with work on real-time object detection and visual understanding.

Professor at KAUST. Co-inventor of LSTM networks and a foundational figure in deep learning. Known for foundational work on recurrent neural networks and unsupervised learning.

Professor at University of Notre Dame (formerly KAUST). Known for research on graph learning, NLP, and scientific AI for energy applications.

President of Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Leads Saudi Arabia's national AI strategy under Vision 2030.

Professor at MBZUAI. One of the world's foremost Arabic NLP researchers, known for MADAMIRA (Arabic morphological analyzer) and work on Arabic dialect processing and machine translation.

Professor at KAUST. Leading computer vision researcher focusing on video analysis, action recognition, and optimization for deep learning. Principal investigator of the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL).

Professor at Khalifa University and Chief Researcher at TII. Pioneer in AI for telecommunications, generative AI for wireless systems, and large language models for technical domains.

Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar). Prominent Arabic NLP researcher with expertise in Arabic social media analysis, named entity recognition, and Arabic dialect identification.

CEO of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi. Leads the development and open-source release of the Falcon LLM family, one of the most impactful open-source AI models globally.

Professor at MBZUAI and Sapienza University of Rome. Known for BabelNet (multilingual knowledge graph), multilingual word sense disambiguation, and semantic NLP resources used across dozens of languages.

Professor at MBZUAI and Carnegie Mellon University. Leading researcher in causal machine learning and causal discovery, with work on learning causal structure from observational and interventional data.

Associate Professor at MBZUAI. Expert in AI security and privacy, biometric systems, and trustworthy machine learning. Known for foundational work on biometric template protection and adversarial robustness.

Professor at KAUST. One of the world's top researchers in optimization for machine learning and federated learning. Known for foundational work on stochastic gradient descent variants and privacy-preserving distributed training.

Professor at the University of Edinburgh, formerly at QCRI. Prominent researcher in Arabic social media NLP, crisis informatics, and computational social science. Key contributor to Arabic Twitter NLP and misinformation detection.

Associate Professor at Qatar University. Leading researcher in Arabic claim verification, information retrieval, and NLP for social media. Organizer of multiple Arabic NLP shared tasks and Arabic fact-checking benchmarks.

Assistant Professor at MBZUAI. Known for research on weakly-supervised object detection, crowd counting, and few-shot learning in computer vision. Published extensively at top venues including CVPR, ICCV, and NeurIPS.

Chief Researcher at the Cryptography Research Centre at TII. Leading work on privacy-preserving machine learning, post-quantum cryptography, and secure AI systems. Key figure in GCC AI security research.