AI Foundational Optimizations

This project focuses on advancing the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of core AI models and algorithms. By optimizing training methods, model architectures, and computational processes, it drives the development of robust and high-performance AI systems capable of adapting to dynamic and data-intensive tasks.

People

Dr. Sanjay Chawla

Chief Scientist

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Dr. Mohamed M. Hefeeda

Research Director, QCAI

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Dr. Michaël J. Aupetit

Senior Scientist

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Dr. Abdelkader Baggag

Senior Scientist

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Dr. Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Senior Scientist

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Dr. Safa Messaoud

Scientist

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Keivin Isufaj

Software Engineer

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Johanne G. Medina

Research Associate

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Publications

Rapid disaster damage assessment using deep adversarial sliced Wasserstein domain adaptation

Fatma AlNaimi , Abdulaziz Al-Homaid , Ferda Ofli , Abdelkader Baggag
Neural Computing and Applications (2026)

Particles Don’t Care About Z: Towards Scaling Entropy Estimation of Unnormalized Densities

Safa Messaoud, Skander Charni, Elaa Bouazza, Ali Pourghasemi, Halima Bensmail
ICML (2026)

ISilDR: Isometric Seriation-based Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Cluster Analysis

Rene Cutura , Sophie Sadler , Quynh Quang Ngo , Michaël Aupetit , Michael Sedlmair
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2026)

Uncertainty-Aware LLMs Fail to Flag Misleading Contexts

Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla
NeurIPS 2025 – Reliable ML Workshop (2025)

Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training

Enes Altinisik, Safa Messaoud, Husrev Taha Sencar, Hassan Sajjad, Sanjay Chawla
ICML (2025)

Projects and Solutions

Feedback-guided Self-Improving Model for Fanar Arabic GenAI using MLOps and Taxonomy Evolution

Feedback-guided Self-Improving Model for Fanar Arabic GenAI using MLOps and Taxonomy Evolution

This work builds on top of a fundamental conviction that the development of production-grade ML-based systems starts after the first deployment of an initial model.…