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 News
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Budgeted SSL Accepted to ECCV2024 !
Internship at Samsung Research UK Started
Two papers accepted to CVPRW2024 !
Accepted for Internship at Samsung Research UK
CAMEL Accepted at NeurIPS 2023 Main Track
Awarded CEMSE Dean’s Award
Started Intership at University of Oxford
1 Paper Accepted at ICCV 2023 to the Main Track and another paper at a Workshop
Attended Sicily Summer School (ICVSS2023)
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
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