Abdelrahim Elmadany
Research Associate (NLP ML DL LLM Research Scientist)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAbdelrahim Elmadany is an AI research scientist and inventor with nine years of experience specializing in deep learning, natural language understanding, and large language model research. Currently a Research Associate at UBC after a five-year postdoctoral stint in the DLNLP group, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with practical experience building Arabic NLP systems, search engines, diacritization and morphological analyzers. He has a track record of moving research into applied tools from his time as a senior NLP researcher and as a university lecturer and department coordinator. Known for tackling language-specific challenges in Arabic NLP, he brings both multilingual model expertise and production-minded problem solving to research teams. Based in Vancouver, he pairs invention-driven curiosity with a history of mentoring and curriculum development, making him adept at translating complex models into usable systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Cairo University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (49)
transformers10
french10
pytorch10
summarization10
benchmark10
translation10
machine-learning-models10
arabic-nlp10
python10
classification10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
nmt10
llm10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UBC-NLP/turjuman
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
TURJUMAN, a neural toolkit for translating from 20 languages into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Contributions:6 releases, 162 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
nlptranslationmsanmttranslating
UBC-NLP/marbert
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
UBC ARBERT and MARBERT Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic
Contributions:104 commits, 23 pushes, 10 comments in 8 months
language-modelsbenchmarkmodel-evaluationbertbert-model
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