Taha Alshatiri

After KAUST Academy

Taha won a gold medal in a Kaggle competition in December 2024, won KAChallenges Series 1 in May 2025, and became a Kaggle Competition Master in March 2026. Taha co-authored a paper at ArabicNLP 2025 and trained the Saudi team for the International Olympiad in AI in summer 2026.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2024

Zero-Shot Multimodal Video Querying with Adaptive Candidates Ranking

Video content retrieval involves searching and extracting relevant video sections based on user queries. We introduce a multimodal video querying system that integrates text and image data to improve accuracy and efficiency. The system uses dynamic candidates generation and ranking techniques to improve response accuracy in zero-shot scenarios, where models haven’t been trained on specific datasets. Our system has set a new state-of-the-art benchmark on YouCook2 benchmark dataset.

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