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Dr. Sanjay Chawla
Chief Scientist
Sanjay is the Chief Scientist of Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU. He helped the draft the National AI Strategy of Qatar that was released in 2019. Before joining QCRI he was a Professor in the School of CS, University of Sydney.
Selected publications
Fanar GenAI Platform2026
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Minhaj Ahmad, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Enes Altinisik, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Mohamed Elfeky, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Asim Ersoy, Masoomali Fatehkia, Mohammed Qusay Hashim, Majd Hawasly, Mohamed Hefeeda, Mus’ab Husaini, Keivin Isufaj, Soon-Gyo Jung, Houssam Lachemat, Ji Kim Lucas, Abubakr Mohamed, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Basel Mousi, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmad Musleh, Mourad Ouzzani, Amin Sadeghi, Husrev Taha Sencar, Mohammed Shinoy, Omar Sinan, Yifan Zhang arXiv:2603.16397 (2026)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Uncertainty-Aware LLMs Fail to Flag Misleading Contexts
Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla — NeurIPS 2025 – Reliable ML Workshop (2025)
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)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Can LLMs Detect Their Confabulations? Estimating Reliability in Uncertainty-Aware Language Models
Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (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)
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