--- title: "Zien Sheikh Ali — author profile and papers" description: "Zien Sheikh Ali: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zien Sheikh Ali # Zien Sheikh Ali Zien Sheikh Ali has 4 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/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunzalah-hassan-bhatti/), [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/), [Shammur Absar Chowdhury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shammur-absar-chowdhury/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5036684479) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6698-2842) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5036684479) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036684479) · [213 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036684479&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/#papers) · [🔗 28 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4820](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4820) 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=Zien+Sheikh+Ali) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zien+Sheikh+Ali) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zien+Sheikh+Ali) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zien+Sheikh+Ali) ## Affiliations [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2020–2023 · 4 papers](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. ## Topics [Semitic languages (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alam-2025-oasis-multilingual-multimodal-dataset-culturally/) ## 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. **[MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2026-menaspeechbank-reference-voice-bank-persona/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Speech-capable LLMs need aligned audio–text data that is conversational, varied in task, and broad in speakers and dialects. 3. **[WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2026-wasil-wild-arabic-spoken-interactions/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Voice assistants built as a speech-recognition stage followed by an LLM are hard to diagnose. When a user dislikes an answer, the cause could be a misrecognized utterance, a request that was unclear or impossible from the start, or a weak LLM. WASIL is an Arabic resource designed to pull these causes apart. 4. **[ImageEval 2026: Culturally Grounded Arabic Multimodal Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdaljalil-2026-imageeval-2026-culturally-grounded-arabic/)** *(2026)* ImageEval 2026 is a shared task that tests whether multimodal models handle Arab cultural content, not just generic scenes. ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunzalah-hassan-bhatti/) ×4 - [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/) ×3 - [Shammur Absar Chowdhury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shammur-absar-chowdhury/) ×3 - [Basel Mousi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/basel-mousi/) ×2 - [Fahim Dalvi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahim-dalvi/) ×2 - [Md. Arid Hasan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arid-hasan/) ×2 - [Nadir Durrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nadir-durrani/) ×2 - [Ali Ezzat Shahroor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-ezzat-shahroor/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-bayan-kmainasi/) - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) - [Samir Abdaljalil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samir-abdaljalil/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 28 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/cited-by/).