Education

1. MSc (Computer Science), Satbayev University, 2021
   Supervisor: Prof. Daniyar Borisovich Nurseitov
   Thesis: Attention-based fully gated cnn-bgru for russian handwritten text

2. Course Based Master (Computer Science), Assiut University, Egypt, 2017
   

3. BSc (Computer Science), Assiut University, Egypt, 2015

Research interests

• Natural Language Processing:
  • Information Retrieval
  • Few shot Learning
  • Zero shot
  • Text Ranking
  • Open-domain Question Answering
  • Keyword Information Extraction
  • Text Generation
  • Large Language Model
• Computer Vision:
  • Self-supervised learning (SSL)
  • Object detection
  • Generative Adversarial Network
  • Segmentation
  • Handwritten
  • OCR
  • Image Retrieval
  • Image Processing

Publications

• ArabicaQA: A Comprehensive Dataset for Arabic Question Answering
  Abdelrahman A., Mahmoud K., Mahmoud A.,Mohamed M., Mohamed E., Yasser E., Adam J.
  SIGIR , 2024
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  @misc{abdallah2024arabicaqa, title={ArabicaQA: A Comprehensive Dataset for Arabic Question Answering}, author={Abdelrahman Abdallah and Mahmoud Kasem and Mahmoud Abdalla and Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed Elkasaby and Yasser Elbendary and Adam Jatowt}, year={2024}, eprint={2403.17848}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }

  Transformers and Language Models in Form Understanding: A Comprehensive Review of Scanned Document Analysis
  Abdelrahman A., Eberharter D., Pfister Z., Yasser E, Adam J.
  arXiv , 2024
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  @article{abdallah2024transformers, title={Transformers and Language Models in Form Understanding: A Comprehensive Review of Scanned Document Analysis}, author={Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Eberharter, Daniel and Pfister, Zoe and Jatowt, Adam}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04080}, year={2024} }

• AMuRD: Annotated Multilingual Receipts Dataset for Cross-lingual Key Information Extraction and Classification
  Abdelrahman A., Mahmoud A., Mohamed E., Yasser E., Adam J.
  arXiv , 2023
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  @misc{abdallah2023amurd, title={AMuRD: Annotated Multilingual Receipts Dataset for Cross-lingual Key Information Extraction and Classification}, author={Abdelrahman Abdallah and Mahmoud Abdalla and Mohamed Elkasaby and Yasser Elbendary and Adam Jatowt}, year={2023}, eprint={2309.09800}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }

• Generator-Retriever-Generator: A Novel Approach to Open-domain Question Answering
  Abdelrahman A., Adam J.
  arXiv , 2023
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  @article{abdallah2023generator, title={Generator-Retriever-Generator: A Novel Approach to Open-domain Question Answering}, author={Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Jatowt, Adam}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11278}, year={2023} }

• Exploring the State of the Art in Legal QA Systems
  Abdelrahman A., Bhawna P., Adam J.
  Journal of Big Data , 2023
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  @misc{abdallah2023exploring, title={Exploring the State of the Art in Legal QA Systems}, author={Abdelrahman Abdallah and Bhawna Piryani and Adam Jatowt}, year={2023}, eprint={2304.06623}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }

• Deep learning for table detection and structure recognition: A survey
  Mahmoud K., Abdelrahman A., Alexander B., Ebrahem E., Mahmoud A., Mohamed M., Mohamed H., Daniyar N., Islam T.
  arXiv , 2023
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  @misc{abdallah2023exploring, doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2211.08469}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08469}, author = {Kasem, Mahmoud and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Berendeyev, Alexander and Elkady, Ebrahem and Abdalla, Mahmoud and Mahmoud, Mohamed and Hamada, Mohamed and Nurseitov, Daniyar and Taj-Eddin, Islam}, keywords = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences}, title = {Deep learning for table detection and structure recognition: A survey}, publisher = {arXiv}, year = {2022}, copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International} }

• TNCR: Table net detection and classification dataset
  Abdelrahman A., Alexander B., Islam N., Daniyar N.
  Neurocomputing, 2022
  PDF | Link | Code & Data | Bibtex

  @article{abdallah2022tncr, title={TNCR: Table net detection and classification dataset}, author={Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Berendeyev, Alexander and Nuradin, Islam and Nurseitov, Daniyar}, journal={Neurocomputing}, volume={473}, pages={79--97}, year={2022}, publisher={Elsevier} }

• KOHTD: Kazakh offline handwritten text dataset
  Nazgul T., Mahmoud K., Galymzhan A., Kairat B., Abdelrahman A., Anel A., Daniyar N.
  Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022
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  @article{toiganbayeva2022kohtd, title={Kohtd: Kazakh offline handwritten text dataset}, author={Toiganbayeva, Nazgul and Kasem, Mahmoud and Abdimanap, Galymzhan and Bostanbekov, Kairat and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Alimova, Anel and Nurseitov, Daniyar}, journal={Signal Processing: Image Communication}, volume={108}, pages={116827}, year={2022}, publisher={Elsevier} }

• Attention-based fully gated CNN-BGRU for russian handwritten text
  Abdelrahman A., Mohamed H., Daniyar N.
  Journal of Imaging, 2020
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  @article{abdallah2020attention, title={Attention-based fully gated cnn-bgru for russian handwritten text}, author={Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Hamada, Mohamed and Nurseitov, Daniyar}, journal={Journal of Imaging}, volume={6}, number={12}, pages={141}, year={2020}, publisher={MDPI} }

• Handwritten Kazakh and Russian (HKR) database for text recognition
  Daniyar N., Kairat B., Daniyar K., Anel A., Abdelrahman A., Rassul Tolegenov
  Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021
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  @article{nurseitov2021handwritten, title={Handwritten Kazakh and Russian (HKR) database for text recognition}, author={Nurseitov, Daniyar and Bostanbekov, Kairat and Kurmankhojayev, Daniyar and Alimova, Anel and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Tolegenov, Rassul}, journal={Multimedia Tools and Applications}, volume={80}, number={21}, pages={33075--33097}, year={2021}, publisher={Springer} }

• Classification of Handwritten Names of Cities and Handwritten Text Recognition using Various Deep Learning Models
  Daniyar N., Kairat B., Maksat K., Anel A., Abdelrahman A., Galymzhan A.
  Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ), 2020
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  @article{DaniyarNurseitovKairatBostanbekovMaksatKanatovAnelAlimovaAbdelrahmanAbdallah2020, author = {{Daniyar Nurseitov, Kairat Bostanbekov, Maksat Kanatov, Anel Alimova, Abdelrahman Abdallah}, Galymzhan Abdimanap}, doi = {10.25046/aj0505114}, file = {:D$\backslash$:/ASTESJ/ASTESJ{\_}0505114.pdf:pdf}, journal = {Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal}, keywords = {CNN,CTC,Convolutional neural networks,RNN,Recurrent neural networks}, number = {5}, pages = {934--943}, title = {{Classification of Handwritten Names of Cities and Handwritten Text Recognition using Various Deep Learning Models}}, volume = {5}, year = {2020} }

• Automated Question Answer medical model based on Deep Learning Technology
  Abdelrahman A., Mahmoud K., Mohamed H., Shaymaa S.
  ICEMIS'20: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering & MIS, 2020
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  @inproceedings{abdallah2020automated, title={Automated question-answer medical model based on deep learning technology}, author={Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Kasem, Mahmoud and Hamada, Mohamed A and Sdeek, Shaymaa}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering \& MIS 2020}, pages={1--8}, year={2020} }

• Neural network estimation model to optimize timing and schedule of software projects
  Mohamed A. H., Abdelrahman A., Mahmoud K., Mohamed A.
  2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies (SIST), 2021
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  @inproceedings{hamada2021neural, title={Neural network estimation model to optimize timing and schedule of software projects}, author={Hamada, Mohamed A and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Kasem, Mahmoud and Abokhalil, Mohamed}, booktitle={2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies (SIST)}, pages={1--7}, year={2021}, organization={IEEE} }

• AE-LSTM: Autoencoder with LSTM-Based Intrusion Detection in IoT
  Mohamed M., Mahmoud K., Abdelrahman A., Hyun S. K.
  2022 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt), 2022
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  @inproceedings{mahmoud2022ae, title={AE-LSTM: Autoencoder with LSTM-Based Intrusion Detection in IoT}, author={Mahmoud, Mohamed and Kasem, Mahmoud and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Kang, Hyun Soo}, booktitle={2022 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt)}, pages={1--6}, year={2022}, organization={IEEE} }

• Enhancing Core Image Classification Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
  Galymzhan A., Kairat B., Abdelrahman A. , Anel A., Darkhan K., Daniyar N.
  arXiv, 2022
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  @article{nurseitov2022application, title={Enhancing Core Image Classification Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) }, author={Nurseitov, Daniyar and Bostanbekov, Kairat and Abdimanap, Galymzhan and Abdallah, Abdelrahman and Alimova, Anel and Kurmangaliyev, Darkhan}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.14224}, year={2022} }

• Developing Predictive Oil Well Diagnostics Based on Intelligent Algorithms
  Zhanar O., Daur A., Aslan A., Abdelrahman A.
  2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies (SIST), 2021
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  @inproceedings{omirbekova2021developing, title={Developing Predictive Oil Well Diagnostics Based on Intelligent Algorithms}, author={Omirbekova, Zhanar and Aktaukenov, Daur and Amangeldiyev, Aslan and Abdallah, Abdelrahman}, booktitle={2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies (SIST)}, pages={1--7}, year={2021}, organization={IEEE} }

Experience

• Dec. 2022 - Now
  Researcher Assistant, Digital Science Center (DiSC), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

• Aug. 2021 - Now
  Machine Learning Engineering (part-time), DISCO AI, Cairo, Egypt

• Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022
  Machine Learning Researcher, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy

• Aug. 2021 - June. 2022
  Machine Learning Engineering, KMG Engineering, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

• 2019 - 2021
  Machine Learning Researcher, National Open Research Laboratory for Information and Space Technologies, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

• 2021 - 2022
  Assistant Lecturer, Computer Science, Assiut University, Egypt

• 2019 - 2019
  Software Developer, Ccc at limkokwing university, - Cyberjaya, Malaysia

• 2015 - 2019
  Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Assiut University, Egypt

• 2016 - 2017
  Web Developer FastKood Company, Cario, Egypt

• 2015 - 2016
  Software Developer, Overcoffeesolutions, Assiut, Egypt

Awards

• 2019 - 2021
  Research Scholarship, Satbayev University

• 2021
  Best Master Thesis Award, Satbayev University, Kazakhstan

Reviwer

Conferences

• SIGIR 2024
• LREC-COLING 2024
• WACV2023
• EMNLP 2023

Journals

• Pattern Recognition Letters
  
• IET NBT Transition
  
• Heliyon
  
• IET Signal Processing