--- title: "Omkar Thawakar — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Omkar Thawakar, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Omkar Thawakar # Omkar Thawakar Omkar Thawakar has 4 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); 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/), [Hisham Cholakkal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/). 4 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5074650489) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5074650489) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074650489) · [289 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074650489&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8899](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/89/#star-8899) 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=Omkar+Thawakar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Omkar+Thawakar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Omkar+Thawakar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Omkar+Thawakar) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2022–2026 · 35 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Aalto University** Espoo · Finland 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aalto-university/) 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CAMEL-Bench: A Comprehensive Arabic LMM Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghaboura-2025-camel-bench-comprehensive-arabic-lmm/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* Most benchmarks for large multimodal models (LMMs) are built around English. This leaves Arabic, with more than 400 million speakers, without a broad way to test models. CAMEL-Bench fills that gap. It is an Arabic evaluation suite covering eight domains and 38 sub-domains: 2. **[Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghallabi-2025-fann-or-flop-multigenre-multiera/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* Large language models handle Arabic well on mainstream benchmarks, but it is unclear whether they grasp Classical Arabic as found in poetry. 3. **[Arabic Mini-ClimateGPT : A Climate Change and Sustainability Tailored Arabic LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mullappilly-2023-arabic-mini-climategpt-climate-change/)** *(2023 · 14 citations)* Arabic has hundreds of millions of speakers, yet open conversational assistants that can discuss climate change and sustainability in Arabic barely exist. 4. **[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. ## 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. **[CAMEL-Bench: A Comprehensive Arabic LMM Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghaboura-2025-camel-bench-comprehensive-arabic-lmm/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Sara Ghaboura, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar, et al.*2025 · 22 citations* 2. **[Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghallabi-2025-fann-or-flop-multigenre-multiera/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wafa Al Ghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura, et al.*2025 · 16 citations* 3. **[Arabic Mini-ClimateGPT : A Climate Change and Sustainability Tailored Arabic LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mullappilly-2023-arabic-mini-climategpt-climate-change/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Abdelrahman Shaker, Omkar Thawakar, et al.*2023 · 14 citations* 4. **[ARB: A Comprehensive Arabic Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghaboura-2026-arb-comprehensive-arabic-multimodal-reasoning/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Sara Ghaboura, Shubham Patle, Ketan More, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 5. **[DuwatBench: Bridging Language and Visual Heritage through an Arabic Calligraphy Benchmark for Multimodal Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.243/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Shubham Patle et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Rao Muhammad Anwer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rao-muhammad-anwer/) ×4 - [Salman Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salman-khan/) ×4 - [Hisham Cholakkal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-cholakkal/) ×3 - [Sara Ghaboura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-ghaboura/) ×3 - [Jorma Laaksonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorma-laaksonen/) ×2 - [Ketan Pravin More](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ketan-pravin-more/) ×2 - [Ahmed Heakl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-heakl/) - [Fahad Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-khan/) - [Fahad Shahbaz Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-shahbaz-khan/) - [Sahal Shaji Mullappilly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahal-shaji-mullappilly/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/), [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [26 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omkar-thawakar/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026