--- title: "Hisham Cholakkal — author profile and papers" description: "Hisham Cholakkal, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hisham Cholakkal # Hisham Cholakkal Hisham Cholakkal has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Rao Muhammad Anwer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rao-muhammad-anwer/), [Salman Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salman-khan/), [Sara Ghaboura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-ghaboura/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009362997) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8230-9065) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009362997) · [164 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009362997) · [4,147 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009362997&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/#papers) · [🔗 35 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4763](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4763) 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=Hisham+Cholakkal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hisham+Cholakkal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hisham+Cholakkal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hisham+Cholakkal) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2020–2026 · 100 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🔬**Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2019–2020 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inception-institute-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2014–2018 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🎓**Abu Dhabi University** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2023–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01r3kjq03) · [🎓**Aalto University** Espoo · Finland 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aalto-university/) · [🎓**Linköping University** Linköping · Sweden 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/linkoping-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghaboura-2026-arb-comprehensive-arabic-multimodal-reasoning/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-ain-arabic-inclusive-large-multimodal/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AIN: The Arabic INclusive Large Multimodal Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-ain-arabic-inclusive-large-multimodal/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Arabic text-only LLMs have improved, but Arabic multimodal models still cover only narrow slices of vision-language understanding. 2. **[ARB: A Comprehensive Arabic Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghaboura-2026-arb-comprehensive-arabic-multimodal-reasoning/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Benchmarks that check how multimodal models reason step by step, and not only whether the final answer is right, exist almost entirely in English. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Rao Muhammad Anwer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rao-muhammad-anwer/) ×2 - [Salman Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salman-khan/) ×2 - [Sara Ghaboura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-ghaboura/) ×2 - [Fahad Shahbaz Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-shahbaz-khan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 35 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/cited-by/).