AI engineer and researcher. I build production LLM systems, study what happens inside them, and make them work in Arabic.
Now: AI safety research with EleutherAI on hierarchy in sparse autoencoders, continuing after the SOAR 2026 program (July–August 2026).
Before: AI Safety Research Fellow at Algoverse (2026), and nearly three years at Fyler building a GenAI search engine for MENA, from the first architecture to product ownership.
Website · عربي · Certificates · LinkedIn · Hugging Face · Kaggle · X
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| MMTEB · ICLR 2025 | Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark. Co-author; contributed Arabic evaluation data (mteb#710). |
| ChatBard | One of the first Arabic apps on PaLM 2. Featured by Google Cloud Tech. |
| Ruqia-Library | Arabic text cleaning, normalization and diacritics. pip install ruqia |
| RuqLM | Small Arabic language models, 3M to 30M parameters. Weights |
| Gemma 2 for Arabic | Gemma 2 2B and 9B fine-tuned on Arabic data with LoRA. |
| Marketing agents | Agents that write and post LinkedIn content, built with Google ADK and A2A on Gemini 3 Pro. |
130+ talks, workshops and mentoring sessions in 10 countries since 2017. See the talks.
Courses in Arabic:
- Deep Learning Course
- Data Engineering Course: a real-time Twitter analytics dashboard with Arabic sentiment analysis
2× Google Developer Expert (AI, Google Cloud) · Google Cloud Champion Innovator · TensorFlow Contributor Award 2021, Middle East & Africa
Community builder: founded, led and grew tech communities for developers and for women in tech in Saudi Arabia for five years (2019 – 2024), as an organizer, trainer and mentor.
I write about LLMs, Arabic NLP and AI products on my blog.