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Ali Habibullah

Research Engineer at KAUST.
I bridge the gap between Generative AI theory and scalable software reality.

Ali Habibullah

About Me

Currently, I lead national-scale technical teaching programs and I also do deep learning research at KAUST. Whether it's fine-tuning LLMs for Arabic dialects or architecting country-wide smart city solutions,

4.98

GPA

400+

Students Mentored

Tech Stack

Python

Python

PyTorch

PyTorch

Tensorflow

Tensorflow

Django

Django

MySQL

MySQL

Git

Git

Laravel

Laravel

Unity

Unity

Featured Research

New Publication Nov 2025

Vote-in-Context: Turning VLMs into Zero-Shot Rank Fusers

Mohamed Eltahir, Ali Habibullah, Lama Ayash, Tanveer Hussain, Naeemullah Khan

87.1% Recall@1 (MSR-VTT)
+40% Gain vs Baselines
SOTA Zero-Shot Retrieval

We introduce Vote-in-Context (ViC), a generalized, training-free framework that re-thinks list-wise reranking and fusion as a zero-shot reasoning task for a Vision-Language Model (VLM).

Experience History

Jun 2024 – Present

Research Engineer

KAUST | Thuwal, KSA

Leading high-impact research and training programs.

  • Supervised 400+ students in CV, GenAI, RL, and NLP.
  • Managed KAUST Academy AI Program (30,000+ applicants).
Jun 2023 – Jun 2024

Software Developer

Lyrae Digital | Jeddah, KSA

Full-stack development and product management.

  • Scaled JIRA operations, increasing efficiency by 35%.
  • Core developer for GA_Universe Low-code platform.
Jan 2024 – Mar 2024

Teaching Assistant

KAUST | Hybrid

  • Head TA for AI track, instructing 500+ students in Deep Learning (PyTorch).
Jun 2022 – Oct 2022

Intern

KAU HPC Center

  • Led the AZIZ account request feature development, integrating email alerts, attachment processing, and tracking request history.
  • Resolved critical issues in the admin dashboard and other sections.

Selected Work

UnityC#AI

Royal Defenders

Real-time evaluation of BFS, UCS, and A* pathfinding algorithms in a 3D tower defense environment.

TransformerTensorFlowNLP

EN-AR Translator

Neural Machine Translation model trained on CCMatrix dataset using Transformer architecture.

LaravelMySQLWeb

Review IT

Interactive media review platform featuring user ratings, trailer integration, and social features.

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I am currently open to research collaborations and senior engineering roles.