--- title: "Mohamed Shaaban — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Mohamed Shaaban, Washington State University Tri-Cities: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohamed Shaaban # Mohamed Shaaban Mohamed Shaaban has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Alice Gatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-gatti/), [Chen Bo Calvin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-bo-calvin-zhang/), [Hugh Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugh-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5126200063) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1378-4417) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5126200063) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5126200063) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5126200063&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 207 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5919](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5919) 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+Shaaban) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohamed+Shaaban) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohamed+Shaaban) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohamed+Shaaban) ## Affiliations [🎓**Washington State University** Pullman · United States 2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05dk0ce17) · [🎓**Washington State University Tri-Cities** Richland · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02sjef319) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [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/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/)** *(2025 · 256 citations)* Popular benchmarks such as MMLU are now close to saturated, so they no longer tell us much about how capable frontier LLMs have become. 2. **[SecureGate: Learning When to Reveal PII Safely via Token-Gated Dual-Adapters for Federated LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaaban-2026-securegate-learning-when-reveal-pii/)** *(2026)* Federated fine-tuning lets organizations adapt a shared LLM without pooling raw data. However, LLMs can memorize personally identifiable information (PII). Standard protections such as differential privacy or data scrubbing also tend to reduce task performance, and aggregation struggles to balance global and local… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alice Gatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-gatti/) - [Chen Bo Calvin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-bo-calvin-zhang/) - [Hugh Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugh-zhang/) - [Long Phan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-phan/) - [Nathaniel Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-li/) - [Ziwen Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziwen-han/) ## 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/) - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/): [Nature 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 207 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [78 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-shaaban/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026