About Me

I am a computer scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, and Machine Learning, with emerging expertise in AI-driven cybersecurity. With a rich international background, he has held academic and research positions in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, contributing to impactful projects in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, multimodal AI, and graph-based deep learning. His work bridges academia and industry through innovative AI solutions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and mentoring of future researchers. An award-winning scholar with numerous peer-reviewed publications, Abbas is passionate about advancing inclusive, accessible, and socially impactful AI technologies.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (WES approved)
  Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Cyprus — 2012–2016
  Dissertation: Chemical Named Entity Recognition using Undersampling and Classifier Ensembles.

• Visiting Ph.D. Student
  Xidian University, Xi’an, China (Fall 2014)

• B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Software Engineering (WES approved)
  Tehran, Iran — 2003–2008

Postdoctoral Research Appointments

• Intelligent Machines Lab (iML), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 2023–2025

• Language Intelligence and Information retrieval (LIIR), KU Leuven , Leuven, Belgium 2018–2020

• Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab (TakeLab), University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 2017–2018

News / Updates

• [December 2025] Successfully completed the Challenge for the Agentic AI course offered by Hugging Face and earned the official certification.
• [October 2025] Paper Accepted for Publication
  • Our paper titled “End-to-End Semantically Aware Tactile Generation” has been accepted for publication in the journal Intelligent Systems with Applications.

• [October 2025] Two papers were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2025) held in Austria:

  • Grounded Multi-modal Conversation for Zero-shot Visual Question Answering
  • TactileNet: Bridging the Accessibility Gap with AI-Generated Tactile Graphics for Individuals with Vision Impairment
• [09/01/2025] I joined Carleton University, Ottawa as an Adjunct Professor.
• [June 2025] Received IBM Generative AI Engineering – Successfully completed and received the IBM Generative AI Engineering certification.
• [05/01/2025] I joined Algonquin College as NLP instructor.