Alaa Siamek

After KAUST Academy

Alaa graduated from the University of Jeddah with a bachelor's degree in July 2023, earned the SDAIA LLMs Practitioner certificate in January 2024, and exhibited at the LEAP24 exhibition in March 2024. As of October 2026, Alaa works at Entropy.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

Solving Dialect Bias in Deep Neural Networks for Arabic Speech Tasks

In a world where language plays an influential role in shaping our identities, distinguishing dialects within a language is vital. Accurate dialect identification allows language technologies to adapt to regional nuances. However, existing models have biases and limitations, hindering effectiveness. Our aim is to enhance fairness, robustness, and generalizability, enabling models to accommodate diverse linguistic characteristics in Arabic dialects.

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