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Dr. Safa Messaoud
Scientist
Research
Dr. Safa Messaoud is part of the research team at the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence, a research group of QCRI at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
Selected publications
AI Foundational Optimizations2026
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)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training
Enes Altinisik, Safa Messaoud, Husrev Taha Sencar, Hassan Sajjad, Sanjay Chawla — ICML (2025)
Fanar GenAI Platform2025
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform
Fanar Team: Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Firoj Alam, Enes Altinisik, Ehsannedin Asgari, Yazan Boshmaf, Sabri Boughorbel, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Mohamed Elfeky, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Masoomali Fatehkia, Anastasios Fragkopoulos, Maram Hasanain, Majd Hawasly, Mus’ab Husaini, Soon-Gyo Jung, Ji Kim Lucas, Walid Magdy, Safa Messaoud, Abubakr Mohamed, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Basel Mousi, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmad Musleh, Zan Naeem, Mourad Ouzzani, Dorde Popovic, Amin Sadeghi, Husrev Taha Sencar, Mohammed Shinoy, Omar Sinan, Yifan Zhang, Ahmed Ali, Yassine El Kheir, Xiaosong Ma, Chaoyi Ruan — arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13944 (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2024
S²AC: Energy-Based Reinforcement Learning with Stein Soft Actor Critic
Safa Messaoud, Billel Mokeddem, Zhenghai Xue, Linsey Pang, Bo An, Haipeng Chen, Sanjay Chawla — ICLR (2024)