--- title: "Ehsaneddin Asgari — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ehsaneddin Asgari, Volkswagen Group: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ehsaneddin Asgari # Ehsaneddin Asgari Ehsaneddin Asgari has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Ahlam Bashiti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahlam-bashiti/), [Alaa Aljabari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-aljabari/), [Bilal Shalash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014316659) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-7238) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92148996) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014316659) · [129 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014316659) · [2,215 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014316659&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 146 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8784](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8784) 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=Ehsaneddin+Asgari) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ehsaneddin+Asgari) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ehsaneddin+Asgari) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ehsaneddin+Asgari) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2022–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) · [🏢**Volkswagen Group** Wolfsburg · Germany 2021–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01f3bhg26) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2025–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2014–2024 · 32 papersEducation 2014–2019 · PhD in Applied Science and Technology with designated emphasis in Computational Datascience and Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🔬**Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research** Braunschweig · Germany 2017–2025 · 19 papersEmployment 2017–2019 · Visiting Researcher, Computational BiologyEmployment since 2019 · Postdoctoral researcher, Computational Biology](https://ror.org/03d0p2685) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2014–2020 · 4 papersEmployment 2014–2018 · Researcher, Center for Language and Information Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🏢**Data:Lab Munich** Munich · Germany 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04jbk1p62) · [🎓**University of Vienna** Vienna · Austria 2021–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-vienna/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2011–2014 · 3 papersEducation 2011–2014 · MSc Student, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Braunschweig** Braunschweig · Germany 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/010nsgg66) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ImageEval 2025: The First Arabic Image Captioning Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashiti-2025-imageeval-2025-first-arabic-image/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* ImageEval 2025 is the first shared task built around generating Arabic captions for images. Arabic multimodal work has been held back by a lack of native caption data, and most existing sets are translated from English, which loses cultural detail. The organizers addressed this with two linked subtasks. The first was… 2. **[Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/team-2026-fanar-2-0-arabic-generative/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Fanar 2.0 is QCRI's second-generation Arabic-centric generative AI platform. It is built and run entirely in-house, with no external AI providers, on a modest budget of 256 H100 GPUs. Arabic is also scarce online, at roughly 0.5% of web text. Instead of scaling up, the team chose careful curation. They continued… 3. **[HarfoSokhan: A Comprehensive Parallel Dataset for Transitions between Persian Colloquial and Formal Variations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarvestani-2026-harfosokhan-comprehensive-parallel-dataset-transitions/)** *(2026)* Persian has a formal written register and a colloquial one ("Shekaste-nevisi"). The two differ in vocabulary, morphology and syntax. Models built for standard Persian lose accuracy on informal social-media text, and no public large-scale parallel corpus linked the two registers. The authors address this with… 4. **[QuranicMMLU: A Cognitively-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Generative AI Solutions on Quranic Linguistic Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghali-2026-quranicmmlu-cognitively-aware-benchmark-evaluating/)** *(2026)* QuranicMMLU is a benchmark that tests how well generative models handle the language of the Quran. Earlier Quranic and Islamic benchmarks mostly measure factual QA or retrieval, are usually multiple-choice only, and ignore cognitive difficulty. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[ImageEval 2025: The First Arabic Image Captioning Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashiti-2025-imageeval-2025-first-arabic-image/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Ahlam Bashiti, Alaa Aljabari, Hadi Hamoud, et al.*2025 · 13 citations* 2. [**Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack arXiv:2603.16397**FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, et al.*2026 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/team-2026-fanar-2-0-arabic-generative/) 3. **[PahGen: Generating Ancient Pahlavi Text via Grammar-guided Zero-shot Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.loresmt-1.16/) Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025) · no summary yet**Farhan Farsi et al.*2025 · 2 citations* 4. **[HarfoSokhan: A Comprehensive Parallel Dataset for Transitions between Persian Colloquial and Formal Variations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarvestani-2026-harfosokhan-comprehensive-parallel-dataset-transitions/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Hamid Jahad Sarvestani, Vida Ramezanian, Saee Saadat, et al.*2026* 5. [**QuranicMMLU: A Cognitively-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Generative AI Solutions on Quranic Linguistic Knowledge arXiv:2609.22038 · Arabic NLP 2026**Rawan El Ghali; Umm Kulsoom; Anas Madkoor; Dima Faris Alsaudi; Roaa Abdelmagid; Roaa Ibrahim; Raghad Mousa; Hamza Aljaji; Abdullah Khanafer; Abdallah Alkanani; Salah Feras Alali; Rawan Khaled Mohamed;, Ehsaneddin Asgari*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghali-2026-quranicmmlu-cognitively-aware-benchmark-evaluating/) ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ahlam Bashiti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahlam-bashiti/) - [Alaa Aljabari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-aljabari/) - [Bilal Shalash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/) - [Enes Altinisik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enes-altinisik/) - [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/) - [Fahim Dalvi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahim-dalvi/) - [George Mikros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-mikros/) - [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Md. Rafiul Biswas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-rafiul-biswas/) - [Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-shahmeer-ahmad/) - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 146 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [113 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026