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Where intelligence meets rigor.

We study the foundations of artificial intelligence — from language and perception to reasoning and alignment. Open research, published freely, built for the world.

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Researchers in the Waqd lab working around a neural-network brain, ringed by screens for language, vision, blockchain, and global data.
2025/2026

Our research at a glance

A quick look at our publications, research areas, and academic impact.

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Papers under review
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Focus area

Where we focus our work.

Language & speech AI

Building models that understand, transcribe, and summarize Arabic and English, from large language models to speech recognition built for real-world conversations.

  • LLMs
  • Arabic NLP
  • Speech recognition

Computer vision & video analytics

Turning everyday camera feeds into useful insight through detection, tracking, and recognition models designed to run reliably on existing infrastructure.

  • Object detection
  • Video analytics
  • Edge AI

AI & emerging technologies

Exploring the next wave of AI, from large language models and multimodal systems to transformer-based NLP that understands sentiment and intent at the aspect level.

  • LLMs
  • NLP
  • Multimodal AI

Trustworthy & efficient AI

Making AI smaller, faster, and safer through model compression, security, and explainability, so systems stay accurate, transparent, and affordable to deploy.

  • Model compression
  • AI security
  • Explainability

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Published articles

Latest from the lab.

Our team

The researchers behind the work.

  • Dr. Abdullah Albanyan

    Dr. Abdullah Albanyan

    AI Research Lead

    Research strategy, lab direction, partnerships, funding acquisition, and research oversight

  • Dr. Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar

    Dr. Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar

    Research Director

    Research planning, funding and grants, scientific guidance, and publication oversight

  • Eng. Reem Abdel-Salam

    AI Researcher

    Research execution, experiments, data analysis, model development, and scientific writing

  • Eng. Abdulhadi

    Eng. Abdulhadi

    AI Technical Advisor

    Technical consultation on data, AI technologies, tools, and research infrastructure