--- title: "Merouane Debbah — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Merouane Debbah, Missile Defense Agency: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 120 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Merouane Debbah # Merouane Debbah Merouane Debbah has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, 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/); often with [Ebtesam Almazrouei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ebtesam-almazrouei/), [Julien Launay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julien-launay/), [Badreddine Noune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/badreddine-noune/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5056145687) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8941-8080) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21344575) · [**h-index 120**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5056145687) · [1,871 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056145687) · [74,597 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056145687&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 342 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3960](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3960) 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=Merouane+Debbah) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Merouane+Debbah) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Merouane+Debbah) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Merouane+Debbah) ## Affiliations [🎓**Khalifa University of Science and Technology** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2021–2026 · 375 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/khalifa-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**CentraleSupélec** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2006–2026 · 208 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centralesupelec/) · [🎓**Université Paris-Saclay** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2012–2026 · 147 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-saclay/) · [🔬**Technology Innovation Institute** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2021–2026 · 105 papersEmployment 2021–2023 · Chief Researcher, AI and Digital Science Research Center*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/technology-innovation-institute/) · [🔬**Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2010–2026 · 36 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00skw9v43) · [🎓**University of Oulu** Oulu · Finland 2017–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oulu/) · [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) · [🎓**University of Electronic Science and Technology of China** Chengdu · China 2024–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2024–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2023–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 72 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 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Electrical and Electronic Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/electrical-and-electronic-engineering/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Environmental Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/environmental-science/environmental-engineering/) · [Environmental Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/environmental-science/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Falcon Series of Open Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almazrouei-2023-falcon-series-open-language-models/)** *(2023 · 443 citations)* The paper documents how the Technology Innovation Institute pretrained Falcon, a family of open causal decoder-only language models with 7B, 40B and 180B parameters. 2. **[A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakim-2022-holistic-assessment-carbon-footprint-noor/)** *(2022 · 30 citations)* Papers on large language models usually report only the electricity used for the final training runs. This one asks what the whole project costs in carbon. The case study is Noor, a joint effort by TII (UAE) and LightOn (France) to build Arabic generative models larger than AraGPT. The suite has four models (1.5B… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**The Falcon Series of Open Language Models arXiv:2311.16867**Ebtesam Almazrouei, Hamza Alobeidli, Abdulaziz Alshamsi, et al.*2023 · 443 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almazrouei-2023-falcon-series-open-language-models/) 2. **[A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakim-2022-holistic-assessment-carbon-footprint-noor/) [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/)**Imad Lakim, Ebtesam Almazrouei, Ibrahim Abualhaol, et al.*2022 · 30 citations* 3. **[OTel: Open Telco AI Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07766) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Farbod Tavakkoli et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ebtesam Almazrouei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ebtesam-almazrouei/) ×2 - [Julien Launay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julien-launay/) ×2 - [Badreddine Noune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/badreddine-noune/) - [Daniele Mazzotta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniele-mazzotta/) - [Étienne Goffinet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/etienne-goffinet/) - [Hamza Alobeidli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamza-alobeidli/) - [Quentin Malartic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quentin-malartic/) - [Ruxandra Cojocaru](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/): [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 342 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [65 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026