Got an offer from Amazon Research US for an intership next year!
October 2024
Biography
I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student in Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) Group in the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AII) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem.
I did an internship at Torr Vision Group (TVG) at the University of Oxford in 2023, and an internship at Samsung Research UK (SRUK) in 2024.
Exciting News! 🎉 I have recently been accepted for an internship at Amazon Research US in 2025! 🚀
Interests
- Large Language Models
- Multimodal Learning
- Safety Alignment
Education
PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2022-Current
KAUST
MS in Electrical Engineering, 2022
KAUST
BEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2020
American University of Beirut
Recent Publications
View all publications here.
(2024).
Randomized Asymmetric Chain of LoRA: The First Meaningful Theoretical Framework for Low-Rank Adaptation.
Featured Theory.
(2024).
Model Merging and Safety Alignment: One Bad Model Spoils the Bunch.
EMNLP 2024.
(2024).
Look Listen and Attack: Backdoor Attacks Against Video Action Recognition.
CVPRW 2024.
(2024).
Towards Interpretable Deep Local Learning with Successive Gradient Reconciliation.
ICML 2024.
(2024).
On Pretraining Data Diversity for Self-Supervised Learning.
ECCV 2024.
Contact
Interested in collaborating or discussing ideas? Reach out to me!