Abdelrahman Boda Sadallah

PhD Student @ USI, Switzerland
MSc of NLP from MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi - BSc from ENG-ASU, Egypt.

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Lugano, Switzerland

Hi, I am Abderlrahman “Boda” Sadallah. I am a PhD student at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), where I am supervised by Prof. Lonneke van der Plas.
Previously, I obtained my MSc from the NLP Department at MBZUAI, where I conducted my MSc research under the supervision of Prof. Ted Briscoe and Dr. Ekaterina Kochmar.

My main research interests include:

  • NLP applications for scientific documents and peer review
  • Arabic NLP, with a focus on cultural representation and evaluation in large language models

I serve as a reviewer at NLP conferences such as ACL and EMNLP.

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news

Jan 19, 2026 Started my PhD at USI, under Prof. Lonneke van der Plas.
Dec 09, 2025 The Jais2 Arabic LLM got released.
Nov 04, 2025 Presented our paper The Good, the Bad and the Constructive: Automatically Measuring Peer Review’s Utility for Authors at EMNLP 2025 conference, Suzhou, China.
Jul 27, 2025 Presented our paper Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture at ACL 2025 conference, Vienna.
Jun 01, 2025 Joined the IFM as an AI engineer, to work on Arabic NLP

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