--- title: "Amr Mohamed — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Amr Mohamed, École Polytechnique: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Amr Mohamed # Amr Mohamed Amr Mohamed has 5 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Guokan Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guokan-shang/), [Michalis Vazirgiannis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michalis-vazirgiannis/), [Hadi Abdine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-abdine/). 5 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021329808) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-7503) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140254732) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021329808) · [428 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021329808) · [9,652 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021329808&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 37 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8088](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/81/#star-8088) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Amr+Mohamed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Amr+Mohamed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Amr+Mohamed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Amr+Mohamed) ## Affiliations [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2007–2026 · 355 papersEmployment since 2007 · Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qatar-university/) · [🎓**University of Memphis** Memphis · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-memphis/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique** Palaiseau · France 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2002–2017 · 14 papersEducation since 2006 · PhD, Electrical Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**Ontario Tech University** Oshawa · Canada 2017–2019 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ontario-tech-university/) · [🎓**Nile University** Giza · Egypt 2012–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nile-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2014 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Northern Border University** Arar · Saudi Arabia 2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03j9tzj20) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University Qatar** Doha · Qatar 2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university-qatar/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 15 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Atlas-Chat: Adapting Large Language Models for Low-Resource Moroccan Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shang-2025-atlas-chat-adapting-large-language/)** *(2025 · 18 citations)* Arabic-focused LLMs such as Jais, AceGPT and ALLaM mostly balance English and Modern Standard Arabic and largely ignore spoken dialects. 2. **[Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shang-2025-nile-chat-egyptian-language-models/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Egyptian Arabic is often written in two ways: in Arabic script and in a Latin-based romanization called Arabizi or Franco-Arabic. 3. **[Beyond Random Sampling: Efficient Language Model Pretraining via Curriculum Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-beyond-random-sampling-efficient-language/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Large language models are usually pretrained on documents fed in random order. This leaves open whether arranging data from simple to complex could save compute. The authors run what they present as the first systematic, large-scale test of curriculum learning for LLM pretraining. They use an English subset of… 4. **[Lost in the Mix: Evaluating LLM Understanding of Code-Switched Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohamed-2026-lost-mix-evaluating-llm-understanding/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* The paper asks whether large language models still comprehend and reason well when a text mixes languages (code-switching, CSW). 5. **[Fast-Decoding Diffusion Language Models via Progress-Aware Confidence Schedules](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohamed-2026-fast-decoding-diffusion-language-models/)** *(2026)* Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) can generate text in parallel and attend in both directions, but they are slow at inference. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Guokan Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guokan-shang/) ×5 - [Michalis Vazirgiannis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michalis-vazirgiannis/) ×5 - [Hadi Abdine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-abdine/) ×3 - [Yang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-zhang/) ×3 - [Eric P. Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-p-xing/) ×2 - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) ×2 - [Mohamed Anwar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-anwar/) - [Omar El Herraoui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/): [Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 37 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/cited-by/). 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