Anas Hakami

After KAUST Academy

Anas started as a Co-op Trainee in the AI and Research division at Elm Company in January 2026. Anas returned to KAUST Academy in 2026 as a teaching assistant for the AI Specialization Program and completed a graduation project on knowledge distillation with vision-language models.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2025

Moraqeb: A Distilled VLM on Surveillance VQA

Distilling and fine tuning a VLM to achieve SoTA metrics on certain benchmark datasets in the area of surveillance VQA

Mentor: Tanveer Hussain

Read the final report (PDF)

See it in the program report (PDF)

With KAUST Academy

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