I am a Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Intelmatix. I received my PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science (specializing in Computer Vision and Machine Learning) from KAUST. I was part of the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) advised by Bernard Ghanem. I received my undergraduate degree in both Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University. Prior to my current position, I worked at several leading technology companies, including DeepMind, Meta AI, AWS, and Amazon. My research interests include video understanding, multimodal representation learning, and computer vision and machine learning in general.
PhD in Computer Science, 2023
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
MSc in Computer Science, 2018
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
BA with Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics, 2016
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
[2023-02-01] Joined Intelmatix in Riyadh as a Principal Machine Learning Scientist.
[2023-01-23] Successfully defended my PhD dissertation.
[2023-01-01] Our recent work on using AI for fluid dynamics applications (in collaboration with the Mechanical Department at KAUST) is published in the Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems Journal.
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[2022-12-02] Got married to the love of my life, Fadhilah Alduraiei.
[2022-09-23] Finished my internship at DeepMind.
[2022-06-23] Awarded the 2022 KAUST Academic Excellence Award for my PhD studies.
[2022-05-09] Started a Research Scientist Internship at DeepMind in London working with João Carreira.
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[2021-12-07] Successfully defended my PhD dissertation proposal and became a PhD candidate (previously a PhD student).
[2021-10-17] Presented my TSP work in ICCV 2021 at the CVEU workshop as a spotlight presentation.
[2021-10-05] Finished my internship at AWS.
[2021-08-17] TSP accepted to the ICCV 2021 Workshop on AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding as a spotlight presentation.
[2021-07-05] Started an applied science internship at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in London. I’ll be working with the Machine Learning Solution Lab (MLSL).
[2021-01-05] Awarded the CEMSE Student Research Excellence Award for my PhD research work.
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[2020-12-08] Presented my XDC work in NeurIPS 2020 as a spotlight presentation.
[2020-11-23] My latest work, TSP: Temporally-Sensitive Pretraining of Video Encoders for Localization Tasks, is on arXiv.
[2020-11-02] RefineLoc accepted to WACV 2021.
[2020-09-26] XDC accepted to NeurIPS 2020 as a spotlight presentation.
[2020-04-05] MortonNet accepted to the Visual Learning with Limited Labels workshop in CVPR 2020.
[2020-01-14] Appeared on a TV interview with MBC1’s Shabab Hub show to talk about my research and the computer vision field in general. The interview is in Arabic.
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[2019-12-02] My recent project with Meta AI on Self-Supervised Learning by Cross-Modal Audio-Video Clustering is on arXiv.
[2019-09-20] Finished my internship at Meta AI.
[2019-06-17] Attended CVPR19 and co-organized the 4th annual International Challenge on Activity Recognition (ActivityNet).
[2019-06-03] Started my research internship at Meta AI in Menlo Park, CA with Du Tran. I’ll be working on self-supervised representation learning for video.
[2019-03-30] My work on weakly-supervised action localization, RefineLoc, is on arXiv.
[2019-03-30] My recent project on self-supervision for point clouds, MortonNet, is on arXiv. Code is available on GitHub.
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[2018-09-15] Attended ECCV 2018 in Munich, Germany and presented our two accepted papers.
[2018-07-03] 2 papers (Action Search and DETAD) accepted to ECCV 2018.
[2018-07-14] Attended ICVSS 2018 summer school in Sicily.
[2018-06-22] Presented our DETAD work in the ActivityNet challenge workshop in CVPR18 (slides) and also released the code for the DETAD diagnosis tool.
[2018-06-01] I’ll attend CVPR18. Come check out our ActivityNet challenge workshop on Friday, June 22.
[2018-05-01] Started my PhD studies with Bernard Ghanem at KAUST. I’m continuing in the same research direction of video understanding and computer vision in general.
[2018-04-16] Got accepted to the ICVSS 2018 summer school in Sicily.
[2018-04-10] Successfully defended my Master’s thesis.
[2018-03-23] I’m co-organizing the third annual ActivityNet challenge in CVPR18, Salt Lake City (the challenge starts today). Check out our website. This year we have six exciting tasks and five novel action datasets.
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[2017-12-15] Graduated with an MSc in Computer Science from KAUST.
[2017-05-01] I’m co-organizing the second annual ActivityNet challenge in CVPR17, Hawaii (the challenge starts today).
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[2016-09-21] Started my Master’s degree in Computer Science at KAUST. I joined the multicultural and diverse Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) advised by Bernard Ghanem.
[2016-06-06] Started a software development engineer internship at Amazon Corporate LLC, Seattle, WA with the Vendor Self Service, Business Advisor team.
[2016-05-29] Graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors degree in both Computer Science and Mathematics.
Principal Machine Learning Scientist
Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company founded by a group of MIT technologists with a global presence through offices in Riyadh, London, and Boston. It provides organizations with Decision Intelligence technologies through custom AI solutions and Enterprise AI products that provide actionable insights and a competitive advantage in the AI era.
Research Scientist Intern
Team: Vision, DeepMind. Manager/Mentor: João Carreira.
Applied Science Intern
Team: Machine Learning Solutions Lab (MLSL), AWS. Manager: Clive Davies.
Research Intern
Team: Computer Vision, Meta AI. Manager/Mentor: Du Tran.
My research project was on Self-Supervised Representation Learning by Cross-Modal Audio-Video Clustering (project page). To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first method to demonstrate that self-supervision outperforms large-scale full-supervision in representation learning for action recognition.
Co-founder and Computer Vision Researcher
A state-of- the-art activity-based, advertising-centric automated video understanding platform. Mantis
utilizes faster-than- real-time activity and object detection techniques for a fine-grained video content
categorization to achieve a content-aware ads placement on videos.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Team: Vendor Self Service, Business Advisor. Manager: Ram Yerramilli.
Preprint PDF Poster Slides Video Code (Pretrained Models) Supplementary Material
Co-organizer and Program Chair
Previously known as The ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge. This annual challenge was held at CVPR and focused on the recognition of daily life, high-level, goal-oriented activities from user-generated videos typically found on the Internet video portals. It attracted a large number of participants from across the world and was sponsored by several industrial partners including Google DeepMind, Facebook AI, Google AI, Qualcomm, and Panasonic. Challenge pages: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Served as a reviewer and emergency reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, WACV, and BMVC.
The annual CEMSE award is presented in recognition of the academic accomplishments and research impact created by CEMSE students in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics.
A fellowship which supports students for the duration of their graduate studies at KAUST. It includes full tuition support, monthly living allowance, housing, and medical coverage.
A scholarship awarded by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the United States. It covers the full tuition for an undergraduate STEM degree at a US university.
KGSP is a prestigious scholarship awarded by KAUST to a select group of Saudi students, allowing them to pursue undergraduate degrees in STEM fields in the US, and then complete their master’s degree at KAUST.
Shabab Hub Show [2020]: Appeared on a TV interview with MBC1’s Shabab Hub show to talk about my research and the computer vision field in general. The interview is in Arabic.
The Beacon Magazine [2019]: Appeared on the cover of the Winter 2019 issue.
KAUST News [2018]: Featured in a news article about our recent work in IVUL.