Kamal Al-Sabahi
- Kamal Al-Sabahi
- Ibra,Oman
ABOUT ME
Work: Al Yahmadi, Ibra, Al Sharqiya North Sultanate of Oman., 00968 Ibra (Oman)
A seasoned AI researcher, passionate educator, and driven entrepreneur. bridging the gap between academia and industry. With a solid foundation in AI, NLP, and database administration, I’m a leader who turns visionary ideas into tangible solutions. In search of transformative collaborations, let’s script the future of tech, together.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Head of Multimedia Section
University of Technology and Applied Sciences [ 29/03/2023 – Current ]
City: Ibra
Country: Oman
- Resource management
- Team building and staff morale
- Collaboration with other departments
- Head of Staff development committee
- Responsible for overseeing the observation of classes
- Academic Staff workload management
- Member of AI and Data Science Course outcome review (UTAS level)
- Member of Digital Transformation Master Degree Program Development (UTAS level)
Senior Lecturer
University of Technology and Applied Sciences [ 17/05/2022 – Current ]
City: Ibra
Country: Oman
Head of Course Development Committee for Master In Digital Transformation at UTAS Level
UTAS [ 03/09/2023 – Current ]
City: Muscat
Country: Oman
- Strategic Oversight & Team Leadership: Lead the course development team, setting program direction aligned with industry trends, academic standards, and ensuring a comprehensive digital transformation
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with industry experts, faculty, and students for feedback and resource alignment, ensuring curriculum relevance and effective
- Accreditation and Evaluation: Maintain program standards to meet accreditation benchmarks and
implement regular assessments for continuous improvement.
- Technological and Resource Integration: Advocate for advanced e-learning platforms and coordinate with academic departments for necessary program
Event Lead for NASA Space App Challenge 2023 Ibra,Oman
UTAS [ 04/07/2023 – 10/10/2023 ]
City: Ibra
Country: Oman
- Strategic Planning: Directed planning and execution in line with NASA’s goals, ensuring event
- Team Coordination: Led a diverse team, emphasizing collaboration and clear
- Training: Prepared focal points, judges, and mentors for their
- Mentorship: Oversaw mentorship, guiding teams to align projects with hackathon and space
- Event Promotion: Collaboratively drove marketing via social media, bootcamps, and outreach, significantly boosting community engagement year-over-year.
- Feedback: Established a feedback system, yielding insights and actionable improvements for future
Senior AI Researcher and NLP Expert
CVTE [ 29/06/2019 – 28/06/2022 ]
City: Guangzhou
Country: China
Website: http://www.cvte.com
- Work extensively with generative AI and Language
- Lead a team of
- Undertaking data collection, pre-processing and
- Building models to address business
- Analysing large amounts of data to discover trends and
- Proposing solutions and strategies to business
- Collaborating with engineering and product development
Assistant Professor
University of Science & Technology [ 01/09/2020 – 31/03/2022 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Website: https://ust.edu/usty/
Database Administrator and Data Mining Specialist
Saba Bank [ 07/07/2010 – 31/08/2016 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Website: www.sababank.com
- Led numerous tuning
- Established Oracle database standards and recovery
- Managed 2013 Data Center relocation for Saba
- Developed data algorithms for digital banking
Intern
CVTE [ 22/12/2018 – 19/03/2019 ]
City: Guangzhou
Country: China
Website: http://www.cvte.com
Co-Founder
MetaGate Technology Co., Limited. (AI company) [ 02/02/2022 – Current ]
City: Guangzhou
Country: China
Website: https://www.metagatetech.com/
Business or sector: Professional, scientific and technical activities
- Several courses and workshops ranging from IT topics to personal productivity and
- Course development from
- Taught an AI Course for PhD students at Sultan Qaboos University
- Taught an AI Course for Lecturers at University of Technology and Applied Sciences 2022 (Ongoing).
Database Administration Consultant
Digital Lines [ 01/09/2009 – 01/09/2012 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Website: www.diglines.com
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Central South University [ 31/08/2016 – 13/06/2019 ]
Address: No.932 South Lushan Road, 410083 , Changsha (China)
Website: http://en.csu.edu.cn/
Field(s) of study: Computer Science | Generative Artificial Intelligence
Final grade: 3.83
Thesis: Document Summarization Models Based on LSA, Word Embedding, and Deep Learning
Master of Information Technology
Open University Malaysia [ 31/12/2011 – 02/07/2015 ]
Address: Jalan Tun Ismail, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Website: http://www.oum.edu.my/
Field(s) of study: Information Technology | Data Mining
Final grade: 3.93
Bachelor of Science
Sana’a University [ 01/09/2004 – 30/07/2008 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Field(s) of study: Computer Science
Final grade: 77.04%
Bachelor of Science
Sana’a University [ 01/09/2002 – 30/07/2006 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Field(s) of study: Chemistry and Biology Sciences
Final grade: 80%
IFC’s Business Edge
IFC, CMT house [ 01/02/2006 – 30/10/2007 ]
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
Field(s) of study: Personal Productivity Skills Diploma | Human Resources Management Diploma | Marketing Diploma | Accounting for non-Accountant Diploma
City: Sana’a
Country: Yemen
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue(s): Arabic Other language(s):
English
LISTENING C2 READING C2 WRITING C2
SPOKEN PRODUCTION C2 SPOKEN INTERACTION C2
Chinese
LISTENING A1 READING A1 WRITING A1
SPOKEN PRODUCTION A1 SPOKEN INTERACTION A1
Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user
DIGITAL SKILLS
Python / Deep learning / Machine learning / C# / Java / Linux / MySQL / HTML / Github / Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, mlr3, caret / Python Library: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, NLTK, NetworkX, SciPy, TensorFlow; / JSON / Git / Oracle Database, Oracle Forms, Oracle Report, Oracle HTMLDB / Apache Spark, Apache Hive
PUBLICATIONS
A Hierarchical Structured Self-Attentive Model for Extractive Document Summarization
[2018]
IEEE ACCESS, IF 3.9, SCI(2022).
A Novel Integrated Approach for Companion Vehicle Discovery Based on Frequent Itemset Mining on Spark
[2019]
Springer, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, IF 2.9, SCI(2022).
Deep Learning Approach Combining Sparse Autoencoder With SVM for Network Intrusion Detection
[2018]
IEEE ACCESS, IF 3.9, SCI(2022).
An Enhanced Latent Semantic Analysis Approach for Arabic Document Summarization
[2018]
Springer, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, IF 2.9, SCI(2022).
Cooperative Hierarchical Framework for Group Activity Recognition: From Group Detection to Multi-activity Recognition
[2019]
ICSCA 2019 Conference Proceedings, Penang, Malaysia, Feb, 19-22,2019, (Ei Compendex)
Latent Semantic Analysis Approach for Document Summarization Based on Word Embeddings
[2019]
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, IF 1.5, SCI(2022).
Document Summarization Using Sentence-Level Semantic Based on Word Embeddings
[2019]
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, IF 0.9, SCI(2022).
EcForest: Extractive Document Summarization through Enhanced Sentence Embedding and Cascade Forest
[2019]
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, IF 2.0, SCI(2022).
An Integrated Graph Model for Document Summarization
[2018]
MDPI, Information, Ei Compendex
A hierarchical self-attentive neural extractive summarizer via reinforcement learning (HSASRL)
[2020]
Springer, Applied Intelligence, IF 5.3, SCI(2022).
Bidirectional Attentional Encoder-Decoder Model and Bidirectional Beam Search for Abstractive Summarization
[2021]
Multi-head Sequence Tagging Model for Grammatical Error Correction
[2023]
Under Review
Supervised copy mechanism for Grammatical Error Correction
[2023]
IEEE, IEEE Access, IF 3.9, SCI(2022)
An Extensive Study of the Structure Features in Transformer-based Code Semantic Summarization
[2023]
2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
PROJECTS
Automatic Grammatical Error Correction for CVTE
A deep learning based Model that has been developed from scratch. It is now used online for the EasyNote application of wildely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.
Automatic Document Summarization
A deep learning based Model that has been developed from scratch. It is now being used online for the educational application of Widely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.
Automatic English Spelling Error Correction for CVTE
It is now used online for the EasyNote application of wildely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.
Planning and Implementing a Data Disaster Recovery Site
[ 01/09/2015 – 19/12/2015 ]
Saba Bank
Central South University, China [ 20/06/2018 ]
Award of Graduate with honor
Central South University, China [ 22/06/2019 ]
Chinese Government Scholarship
China Scholarship Council, China [ 09/07/2016 ]
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
The Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence
[ Scientific Webinar organized by IEEE Yemen Subsection., 17/05/2023 – 17/05/2023 ]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoikVzYkkWY
Exploring the Future: Generative AI and its Transformative Role in Business [ Webinar Organized by Arab Bussinessmen Forum in China, 02/07/2023 – 02/07/2023 ] Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtHddmmDkck
Boosting Productivity with Generative AI: A Practical Approach with Prompt Engineering & Extensions/Plugins
[ Scientific Webinar organized by IEEE Yemen Subsection., 31/07/2023 – 31/07/2023 ]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qolGJVuCw
Utilizing AI tools for Scientific Research
[ Scientific Webinar organized by YSUC China., 04/10/2023 – 04/10/2023 ] Write here the description…
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcr0ti9vsdM
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND GRANTS
UTAS Internal Fund Grant (RSRP)
[ 03/09/2022 – Current ]
A research Grant at UTAS Level under the Research Support Project
Research Interest
Generative AI and Language Models AI in Education
Natural Language Processing Software Engineering Automation