People (Draft)
Members of LLM-Lab — Draft
Principal Investigator
| Name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Ehsaneddin Asgari | Scientist, QCRI |
PhD Students (Co-advising)
| Name | Topic | Affiliation | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Parsa | Protein Language Models | UC Berkeley | 2024–Present |
| Fatemeh Shaterian | Code LLMs and their Evaluations | SUT | 2024–Present |
| Giorgos Kallergis | Language Modeling of Chemicals | Helmholtz Center | 2021–Present |
Masters Students (Co-advising)
| Name | Topic | Affiliation | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omid Ghahroodi | Language Models for Hierarchical Classifications | QCRI | 2021–2024 |
| M.A. Sadraei | Continual Learning of Language Models | QCRI | 2021–2024 |
Current Mentees
| Name | Topic | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Yousra Farhani | Quantum LLM Decoder / Quantum Arabic LLM | 2025–Present |
Research Interns (QCRI Summer 2025)
Bridging AI and Arabic Cultures — Multimodal RAG Framework
Heyam Suleiman (HBKU) · Amin Zare (Princeton) · Lina Filali (UDST) · Ahmed Ayman (QU) · Alaa Elfadl (HBKU)
AI in Motion — Avatara (3D Human Movement) and SportRAG
Dima Faris (QU) · Aya Hamdi (QU) · Syeda Maymona Mustafa (UDST) · Abhay Philip (Rajagiri) · Serra Sencar (Georgia Tech)
ADAM — A Diverse Archive of Mankind
Jasin Cekinmez (Princeton) · Dhiman Gupta (Virginia Tech) · Saad Fowad Chandle (Amity University Mumbai)
Quranic Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hamza Aljaji (QU) · Roaa Ashraf (UDST) · Arwa Eleradi (QU) · Abdallah Kanani (QU)
Awan — Time and Task Management Framework
Dina Bouteldja (UDST) · Wafa Elhag (UDST) · Aya Jouni (LAU) · Bsmalla Hisham (QU)
GeoPolRAG — Contextually Grounded QA
Anas Madkoor (QU) · Hamza Aljaji (QU) · Mohamed Elansari (QU) · Fagr Amar (QU) · Talha Shahid Javad (UDST)
Key Collaborators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi | Research Collaborator |
| Pardis Zahraei | Research Collaborator |
| Farhan Farsi | Research Collaborator |
| Mahshid Dehghani | Research Collaborator |
| Marzia Nouri | Research Collaborator |
| Doratossadat Dastgheib | Research Collaborator |
| Anas Madkoor | Research Collaborator |
Alumni
| Name | Period | Currently |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Dickson (PhD) | 2020–2023 | — |
| Alireza Sahebi (MSc) | 2021–2023 | — |
| Yongxin Huang (MSc) | 2022 | — |
| Nicolai-David Bernard Ruhnau (MSc) | 2018 | — |
| Pardis Zahraei (BSc) | 2023 | PhD Student, UIUC |
| Mahdi Abootorabi (BSc) | 2023 | PhD Student, UBC |
| Shuqi Wang (BSc) | 2023 | — |
| Mobina Pournemat (BSc) | 2023 | PhD Student, University of Maryland |
| Arshan Dalili (BSc) | 2023 | PhD Student, Penn State |
| Soroush Nasiriany (BSc) | 2016 | PhD Student, UT Austin |
| Kaveh Karbasi (BSc) | 2016 | PhD Student, Johns Hopkins |