--- title: "Sanjay Chawla — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Sanjay Chawla, Hamad bin Khalifa University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 44 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sanjay Chawla # Sanjay Chawla Sanjay Chawla 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/); often with [Enes Altinisik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enes-altinisik/), [Fahim Dalvi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahim-dalvi/), [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037947876) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8102-2572) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130903676) · [**h-index 44**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037947876) · [253 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037947876) · [8,620 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037947876&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 133 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6337](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6337) 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=Sanjay+Chawla) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sanjay+Chawla) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sanjay+Chawla) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sanjay+Chawla) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2014–2026 · 64 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2002–2018 · 93 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) · [🔬**Data61** Sydney · Australia 2013–2014 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/data61/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 1999–2002 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🔬**Quantum Chemistry Research Institute** Kyoto · Japan 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/quantum-chemistry-research-institute/) · [🤝**Qatar Foundation** Doha · Qatar 2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/qatar-foundation/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2012 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [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/sanjay-chawla/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abbas-2025-fanar-arabic-centric-multimodal-generative/)** *(2025 · 127 citations)* Arabic is spoken by over 400 million people, yet it makes up only about 0.5% of web text. That scarcity, along with high compute costs and limited GPU access, makes strong Arabic LLMs hard to build. The QCRI team at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, funded by Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology… 2. **[Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/team-2026-fanar-2-0-arabic-generative/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Fanar 2.0 is QCRI's second-generation Arabic-centric generative AI platform. It is built and run entirely in-house, with no external AI providers, on a modest budget of 256 H100 GPUs. Arabic is also scarce online, at roughly 0.5% of web text. Instead of scaling up, the team chose careful curation. They continued… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Enes Altinisik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enes-altinisik/) ×2 - [Fahim Dalvi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahim-dalvi/) ×2 - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) ×2 - [Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-shahmeer-ahmad/) ×2 - [Shammur Absar Chowdhury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shammur-absar-chowdhury/) ×2 - [Ehsaneddin Asgari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/) - [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/) - [Nadir Durrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nadir-durrani/) - [Sabri Boughorbel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-boughorbel/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 133 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [108 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-chawla/cited-by/). 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