After KAUST Academy
Abdullah won first place at the Hack AI Hackathon of the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center in August 2023 and presented a paper on interoperable federated learning at the IEEE FLTA24 conference in Valencia in October 2024. In June 2025, Abdullah completed the AI and Global Governance Summer Program in Brussels.
Summer projects
Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023
Language Translator: Arabic Sign Language Translator
The "Real-Time Arabic Sign Language Translator” is an AI project that utilizes the YOLO v5 detection model and custom training data to accurately recognize and translate Arabic sign language gestures in real-time. This project aims to bridge the communication gap between individuals with hearing impairments and those who do not understand sign language, empowering them and fostering inclusivity. The report provides an overview of the project, including motivations, background, and technical details.
Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023
Hunayn: Elevating Translation Beyond the Literal
Hunayn is an advanced English-to-Arabic translator surpassing conventional tools. Leveraging the Helsinki transformer (MarianMT), our approach involves fine-tuning on a self-scraped, purely literary Arabic dataset. Evaluations against Google Translate show consistent outperformance in BLEU scores and qualitative assessments. Notably, it excels in cultural sensitivity and context accuracy. This research underscores the Helsinki transformer's superiority for English-to-Arabic translation using a Fus’ha dataset.
With KAUST Academy
- Cohort 2023
Artificial Intelligence Specialization
University of Oxford · Artificial Intelligence Summer School
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