Fazli Imam
Hi, I’m an AI Researcher (Level II) at MBZUAI, supervised by Dr. Alham Fikri Aji at MBZUAI, focusing on exciting challenges in multimodality and visual temporal reasoning capabilities of vision-language models.
Previously, I earned my master’s degree in machine learning from MBZUAI where I was supervised by Dr. Hisham Cholakkal.
Before venturing into academic research, I honed my skills as a Data Scientist at Stax Inc.. and at NICST, where I applied data-driven insights to solve complex use cases.
I'm currently seeking Data Science and Machine Learning job opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like to know more.
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Encoder-only Models are Efficient Crosslingual Generalizers
Ahmed Elshabrawy,
Thanh-Nhi Nguyen,
Yeeun Kang,
Lihan Feng,
Annant Jain,
Faadil A. Shaikh,
Jonibek Mansurov,
Mohamed Fazli Imam,
Jesus-German Ortiz-Barajas,
Rendi Chevi,
Alham Fikri Aji
ACL ARR Submission, 2024
We extend Statement Tuning to multilingual NLP tasks, investigating whether encoder models can achieve zero-shot cross-lingual generalization and serve as efficient alternatives to memory-intensive LLMs for low-resource languages
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CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark
David Romero,
Chenyang Lyu∗,
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo,
Thamar Solorio
Alham Fikri Aji,
Teresa Lynn,
Injy Hamed,
Aditya Nanda Kishore,
Aishik Mandal,
Alina Dragonetti,
Artem Abzaliev,
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja,
Bontu Fufa Balcha,
Chenxi Whitehouse,
Christian Salamea,
Dan John Velasco,
David Ifeoluwa Adelani,
David Le Meur,
Emilio Villa-Cueva,
Fajri Koto,
Fauzan Farooqui,
Frederico Belcavello,
Ganzorig Batnasan,
Gisela Vallejo,
Grainne Caulfield,
Guido Ivetta,
Haiyue Song,
Henok Biadglign Ademtew,
Hernán Maina,
Holy Lovenia,
Israel Abebe Azime,
Jan Christian Blaise Cruz,
Jay Gala,
Jiahui Geng,
Jesus-German Ortiz-Barajas,
Jinheon Baek,
Jocelyn Dunstan,
Laura Alonso Alemany,
Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe,
Luciana Benotti,
Luis Fernando D'Haro,
Marcelo Viridiano,
Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia,
Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera,
Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar,
Mélanie Jouitteau,
Mihail Mihaylov,
Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam,
Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda,
Munkhjargal Gochoo,
Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold,
Naome Etori,
Olivier Niyomugisha,
Paula Mónica Silva,
Pranjal Chitale,
Raj Dabre,
Rendi Chevi,
Ruochen Zhang,
Ryandito Diandaru,
Samuel Cahyawijaya,
Santiago Góngora,
Soyeong Jeong,
Sukannya Purkayastha,
Tatsuki Kuribayashi,
Teresa Clifford,
Thanmay Jayakumar,
Tiago Timponi Torrent,
Toqeer Ehsan,
Vladimir Araujo,
Yova Kementchedjhieva,
Zara Burzo,
Zheng Wei Lim,
Zheng Xin Yong,
Oana Ignat,
Joan Nwatu,
Rada Mihalcea
71 more authors
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NeurIPS Dataset Track, 2024
arXiv
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A Culturally-diverse multilingual Visual Question Answering benchmark, designed to cover a rich set of languages and cultures, where we engage native speakers and cultural experts in the data collection process.
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Experience
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Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
AI Researcher (Level II)
July 2024 - Present
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ADNOC, Panorama Digital Command Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Machine Learning Intern
June 2023 - July 2023
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STAX Inc, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Data Scientist
July 2021 - July 2022
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National Intensive Care Surveillance Unit (NICST), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Data Scientist
Nov 2020 - June 2021
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Education
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Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
MSc. in Machine Learning
Aug 2022 - June 2024
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Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Malabe, Sri Lanka
Bachelor's in Science (Hons) in Information Technology Specializing in Data Science
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
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