Muhammad AbdulMageed

Honored to share that I’ve received the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers (2025) in the AI and Arabic Language category. This recognition reflects the sustained work of my students, collaborators, and mentors—thank you. I’m grateful for the chance to advance Arabic AI/NLP in service of our communities. About the award: Established in 1982 by the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation—the Arab Bank’s cultural and social responsibility arm—the award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions by Arab researchers across disciplines. #AI #ArabicNLP #NLP #LLMs #Research #ArabWorld

I am very much looking forward to meeting colleagues at UPM and giving this talk. I will be covering our most recent research across various areas, including LLM work on Arabic and African languages, machine translation, model efficiency, and protein sequencing.

AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Can’t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science

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I have openings for two Postdoctoral Fellows at UBC, with a starting date as soon as March 2026. A strong background and top-tier publications in speech and language processing and machine learning is required. Kindly share with strong candidates in your networks.

Very nice video covering the ideas and history of reinforcement learning. Love the original footage from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

We are happy to announce a new shared task for @iwslt 2026 for African-Celtic speech translation If you or your team are interested in furthering speech translation research for low-resource languages, then please check out iwslt.org/2026/african-c… . huggingface.co/datasets/McGil…

Congratulations to all new ACL fellows!

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Job description and how to apply: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4326…

🙌 New Postdoctoral Opportunity I am seeking an exceptional candidate for a Postdoctoral position focused on Next-Generation Language Modeling for High-Precision and Ultra-Fast Protein Sequencing. This position will be part of the UBC Health & AI Network. The fellow will work with me and my colleague Prof. Laks Lakshmanan.

@DSFSI_Research Great work!

Massive thanks to our funders — Gates Foundation & Meta — and partners Way With Words, Data Science Law Lab, and so many others. 🙏 7/

🌍 3,000 Hours. 7 South African Languages. Introducing Swivuriso — a new multilingual speech dataset from the DSFSI lab, built as part of the African Next Voices project. 1/

Google just released their 𝑮𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊 3 𝑷𝒓𝒐 model. How does it fare on African languages? We were also wondering! 🤔 Today, we are sharing new results based on our Sahara platform 🌍 evaluating not only 𝑮𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊 3 𝑷𝒓𝒐, but other recent frontier models such as 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒆 4.5 and 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏𝑨𝑰’𝒔 𝑮𝑷𝑻-5.1 as well.

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Work led by @arelmadany, with @IfeAdebara, and others.

𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐍𝐋𝐏 2026 will take place in 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐨, and we’re pleased to share that this year’s workshop brings together a strong and diverse lineup of speakers from across the continent and beyond. If you’re interested in 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐋𝐏, or the future of 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈, we’d be glad to have you join us in 2026. To learn more and 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 click here: sites.google.com/view/africanlp… @davlanade @Africa_NLP @MasakhaneNLP

Project page: dlnlp.ai/speech/casabla…

Last year this time at #EMNLP2024 we presented Casablanca, a multidilectal speech dataset and evaluation suite for 8 different Arabic dialects. Possible via a community project with a large number of collaborators. #ASR