After KAUST Academy
Mahdi is a final-year undergraduate at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. In October 2026, Mahdi's team ranked among the top 29 of 170+ teams at the AgentX AI Hackathon. Mahdi was also accepted into the Fateel program's technology track in September 2026.
Summer project
Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2026
DiacriticS: Fine-Tuning a Language Model for Arabic Diacritisation on SadeedDiac-25 Benchmark
DiacriticS is a research project focused on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of open-weights language models to achieve robust Arabic Text Diacritisation (ATD) under strict contamination control. The project utilises a training corpus derived from Sadeed Tashkeela (~53 million words) with minimal overlap (0.4%) against evaluation data, while benchmark evaluations are conducted on SadeedDiac-25, a contamination-controlled dataset of 1,200 curated, human-reviewed paragraphs evenly split between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic. Baseline zero-shot evaluations measured using formal Diacritic Error Rate (DER) and Word Error Rate (WER) metrics reveal that sentence-final case endings (I'rab) and Classical Arabic domains remain the primary sources of error, establishing the project's next steps to execute SFT and perform targeted error analysis to resolve syntactic context bottlenecks.
With KAUST Academy
- Cohort 2026
Artificial Intelligence Specialization
King Khalid University · Artificial Intelligence Summer School
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