--- title: "Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi — author profile and papers" description: "Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Qatar University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi # Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi has 5 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/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ali Ezzat Shahroor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-ezzat-shahroor/), [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/), [Abul Hasnat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abul-hasnat/). 5 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109021944) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4115-6057) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109021944) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109021944) · [12 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109021944&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5920](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5920) 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=Mohamed+Bayan+Kmainasi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohamed+Bayan+Kmainasi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohamed+Bayan+Kmainasi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohamed+Bayan+Kmainasi) ## Affiliations [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qatar-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) 🧭 Topics 8 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi's papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OASIS: A Multilingual and Multimodal Dataset for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alam-2025-oasis-multilingual-multimodal-dataset-culturally/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Multimodal models perform well on standard visual QA, but they struggle when a question depends on local culture and everyday knowledge, especially in Arabic and its dialects. 2. **[Can Large Language Models Predict the Outcome of Judicial Decisions?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kmainasi-2025-large-language-models-predict-outcome/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* The paper targets Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) in Arabic, a language with little legal NLP work and almost no public datasets for this task. 3. **[AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kmainasi-2026-aha-memes-fine-grained-multimodal/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Hateful memes express hostility through the combination of picture, caption and shared cultural background. 4. **[ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alam-2026-arguard-shared-task-harmful-content/)** *(2026)* ArGuard is a 2026 shared task on detecting harmful Arabic content in two settings that earlier work treated separately: multimodal memes and prompts sent to LLMs. 5. **[ProBel: Propaganda Detection with Techniques, Spans, and Explanations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kmainasi-2026-probel-propaganda-detection-techniques-spans/)** *(2026)* Propaganda analysis is usually split into separate tasks. One task asks whether a sentence is propagandistic, another names the technique, and a third locates the responsible text. These tasks normally live in different datasets, languages and evaluation setups, so it is hard to see how supervision at one level… ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ali Ezzat Shahroor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-ezzat-shahroor/) ×5 - [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/) ×4 - [Abul Hasnat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abul-hasnat/) ×2 - [Md. Rafiul Biswas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-rafiul-biswas/) ×2 - [Wajdi Zaghouani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wajdi-zaghouani/) ×2 - [Basel Mousi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/basel-mousi/) - [Fahim Dalvi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahim-dalvi/) - [George Mikros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-mikros/) - [Giovanni Da San Martino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-da-san-martino/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunzalah-hassan-bhatti/) - [Md. Arid Hasan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arid-hasan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026