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Career

· Senior Research Scientist, Google2025–
· Research Scientist, Anyscale Inc.
· BEng. Informatics, Damascus University
· Facebook
· Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, McGill University
· MSc. Computer Science, McGill University
· Software Engineer, Microsoft
· Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
· Software Engineer, Nuance Communications
· ServiceNow AI Research
· Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Deep Learning, Université de Montréal

Publications (108)

Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
arXiv.org · 2023
15,617
cited
Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions
arXiv.org · 2016
2,366
cited
Augmented CycleGAN: Learning Many-to-Many Mappings from Unpaired Data
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2018
456
cited
RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data
arXiv.org · 2024
246
cited
UniPELT: A Unified Framework for Parameter-Efficient Language Model Tuning
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2021
219
cited
Unsupervised Learning of Dense Visual Representations
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2020
212
cited
Progressive Prompts: Continual Learning for Language Models
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2023
201
cited
When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
119
cited
Learning Distributed Representations from Reviews for Collaborative Filtering
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems · 2015
113
cited
Calibrating Energy-based Generative Adversarial Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2017
111
cited
Dynamic Capacity Networks
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2015
108
cited
Residual Prompt Tuning: Improving Prompt Tuning with Residual Reparameterization
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
73
cited
A Closer Look at the Optimization Landscapes of Generative Adversarial Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2019
66
cited
Jack of All Tasks, Master of Many: Designing General-purpose Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Model
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2023
51
cited
First Result on Arabic Neural Machine Translation
arXiv.org · 2016
41
cited
The Impact of Preprocessing on Arabic-English Statistical and Neural Machine Translation
Machine Translation Summit · 2019
35
cited
DeCoT: Debiasing Chain-of-Thought for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks in Large Language Models via Causal Intervention
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
26
cited
RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs from Preference Data
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2025
25
cited
Achieving >97% on GSM8K: Deeply Understanding the Problems Makes LLMs Perfect Reasoners
23
cited
ACUEval: Fine-grained Hallucination Evaluation and Correction for Abstractive Summarization
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
21
cited
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