About Me
I am a PhD researcher at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), specializing in video understanding, multimodal learning, and large multimodal models (LMMs). I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Fahad Khan and Dr. Salman Khan.
My research explores composed video retrieval, open-world video instance segmentation, multimodal reasoning, and self-evolving agentic systems. I am driven by the goal of designing AI systems that can reason, adapt, and generalize beyond closed-world assumptions.
Beyond academia, I am the Founder and Tech Lead of Lawa.AI, an agentic AI startup focused on building privacy-preserving, multilingual AI agents. These systems are actively deployed in enterprise and various business settings across the UAE.
Research Interests
Primary
- Multimodal Learning & Reasoning
- Video Understanding & Retrieval
- Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
- Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)
- Agentic & Self-Evolving AI
- Open-World Learning
Secondary
- Efficient & Transparent LLMs
- Multilingual & Cultural AI
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- World Models & Long-Horizon Reasoning
Teaching & Service
Teaching Assistant — MBZUAI
- Computer Vision
- Multimodal Learning
Reviewer
CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCV, ACL, TPAMI
50+ papers reviewed
Working With:
PhD Advisors
Collaborators & Mentors
Startup Mentors
Bachelor's Advisors
