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hessaAlawwad/README.md

Hi, I'm Hessa A. Alawwad

👩‍🏫 Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Researcher | PhD in Computer Science (AI — NLP — CV)
📍 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
👋 Open for research collaborations

I am both an academic and an active researcher, passionate about advancing Artificial Intelligence through multimodal understanding, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs).
As an Assistant Professor, I lead projects, mentor students, and contribute to academic service.
As a researcher, I stay deeply engaged in building and evaluating AI systems that integrate text, vision, and structured knowledge to push the boundaries of machine understanding.


🔍 Research Interests

  • Multimodal Question Answering (text + images + structured knowledge)
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Arabic NLP and low-resource language technologies
  • Machine Reading Comprehension and Knowledge Retrieval
  • Ethical & Responsible AI

💡 Expertise

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): QA, Information Retrieval, Text Generation
  • Computer Vision (CV): Language–vision integration for QA and reasoning
  • Multimodal AI: Joint training of retrievers and generators
  • Applied AI for Arabic Language: Qur’an QA, Arabic poetry generation, linguistic resources
  • Research & Academic Service: Publications in international venues, Reviewer at COLM 2025

📝 Selected Publications

  • Enhancing Textbook QA with Large Language Models and RAG, Pattern Recognition (2025)
  • AHJL at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Enhancing Passage Retrieval, ArabicNLP (2023)

🌟 Open to Collaboration

I am actively seeking collaborations in:

  • Multimodal Question Answering and Retrieval
  • LLMs for education, low-resource languages, and cultural heritage
  • Arabic NLP research and datasets

💡 Whether you’re an academic, industry researcher, or student interested in AI, I’d love to connect and explore potential research directions together.


📫 Connect with Me


⭐️ Assistant Professor & Researcher in AI, NLP, and Multimodal Systems — always open for meaningful collaborations in advancing Artificial Intelligence.

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  1. AllamChallenge-Adeeb AllamChallenge-Adeeb Public

    Adeeb: This project is part of the Allam Challenge and focuses on generating Arabic poetic left hemistichs based on given right hemistichs. The application leverages AI models to ensure the generat…

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