Scholar
Hady Elsahar
Google Scholar ID: SbcM6bsAAAAJ
FAIR Meta
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,539
H-index
20
i10-index
30
Publications
20
Co-authors
47
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Published papers in renowned conferences like Neurips, ICML, and ICLR.
- 2. Work on foundational models like SeamlessM4T at Meta AI was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2023.
- 3. Collaboration with Marc Dymetman resulted in publications in leading conferences such as Neurips, TMLR, ICML, and ACL.
- 4. Organized significant workshops like AfricaNLP and contributed to diversity panels at NAACL.
- 5. Received the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award with the Masakhane community.
Research Experience
- 1. Meta AI: Working on foundational generative models that scale multilingually and multimodally.
- 2. Naver: Collaborated with Marc Dymetman on distributional RLHF and Energy Based Models.
- 3. Bloomberg London, IBM Germany, Microsoft: Focused on NLP-related topics during internships.
Education
- Ph.D. from L'Université de Lyon under the guidance of Christophe Gravier and Frederique Laforest. Thesis focused on Data2Text Generation and Relation Extraction & Discovery.
Background
- AI Research Scientist specializing in Multilingual, Multimodal Generative Models. Committed to making AI accessible, fair, and safe. Research interests include removing biases and ensuring safety in AI.
Miscellany
- 1. Grew up in Cairo, Africa, experiencing firsthand the challenges of being part of an underprivileged group in AI research.
- 2. Native speaker of Arabic, near-native English, advanced French, and basic German.
- 3. Deeply invested in community engagement and advocacy, particularly in mentoring young researchers from underrepresented groups.
- 4. Personal philosophy: Believes that borders and identities are fluid concepts and should not be overemphasized.
