Abdelrahman Boda Sadallah

MSc of NLP from MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi - BSc from ENG-ASU, Egypt.

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Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Hi, I am Abderlrahman “Boda” Sadallah. I am a MSc graduate from the NLP Department, MBZUAI. I did my MSc under the supervision of Prof. Ted Briscoe and Dr. Ekaterina Kochmar. My main research interests are:

  • NLP Applications for Scientific Documents and Peer Review.
  • Arabic NLP, with focus on Cultural representation and evaluation in LLMs.

I am currently looking for PhD opportunities, preferably in Europe. Please contact me for future opportunities.

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news

Apr 10, 2025 Succefully defended my Msc Thesis titled: “Automatic Peer Review Evaluation”.
Jan 21, 2025 Presented our paper What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? at Coling 2025 conference, Abu Dhabi.
Aug 10, 2024 Participated as a member of the scientific jury for the first International Olympiad for Artificial Intellegence (IOAI)
Jul 15, 2024 Attended Estern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML) in Nova Sad, Serbia.
May 21, 2024 Started Summer internship at UKP, TUD

latest posts

selected publications

  1. What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs?
    Abdelrahman Sadallah , Daria Kotova , and Ekaterina Kochmar
    2025
  2. Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture
    Abdelrahman Sadallah , Junior Cedric Tonga , Khalid Almubarak , and 7 more authors
    2025
  3. ANER: Arabic and Arabizi Named Entity Recognition using Transformer-Based Approach
    Abdelrahman Boda Sadallah , Omar Ahmed , Shimaa Mohamed , and 3 more authors
    In 2023 Intelligent Methods, Systems, and Applications (IMSA) , Jul 2023
  4. ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic
    Fajri Koto , Haonan Li , Sara Shatnawi , and 10 more authors
    Jul 2024
  5. Are LLMs Good Cryptic Crossword Solvers?
    Abdelrahman "Boda" Sadallah , Daria Kotova , and Ekaterina Kochmar
    Jul 2024
  6. Benchmarking Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Large Language Models with LM-Polygraph
    Roman Vashurin , Ekaterina Fadeeva , Artem Vazhentsev , and 11 more authors
    Jul 2024