NLP / LLM-Evaluation Researcher · Hugging Face Transformers Contributor · CrashLens Co-founder
I study whether AI judges can be trusted — and build the systems that test them.
- Dialect Is Not Error — lead author. Auditing prestige bias in LLM-as-a-judge systems under Arabic diglossia: a 58-item benchmark across five Arabic registers, ~1,500 judge trials; MSA won 100% of non-tied pairwise comparisons against every regional variety, for both judges. Manuscript in preparation for ACL Rolling Review (Oct 2026).
- Hugging Face Transformers — PR #47090 — diagnosed and fixed a training-loss double-shift bug in CohereASR; at maintainers' request, propagated the fix to Moonshine and PPFormulaNet. Approved by maintainers, CI green.
- SHARP-RAG — sole author. Four-agent, critic-gated LangGraph pipeline for multi-hop QA; published an honest negative result (critic over-rejection degraded EM 25%→15%) with full failure analysis. Preprint on Zenodo.
- CrashLens — first author, 5-person senior project. Embedded crash detection + AI-assisted forensic evidence: Raspberry Pi 5 edge device, Cloudflare Workers/Supabase backend, Flutter apps. Cut responder notification from ~14 min to 25–35 s in controlled tests. Paper under re-review, IEEE ICCA 2026. · crashlens.org
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| EmotionAI | Real-time multi-face emotion recognition with SE-attention CNN and live web dashboard — built with Georges El Khayat | PyTorch · Flask · SocketIO · OpenCV |
| Web Bluetooth Dashboard | Live BLE/GATT sensor streaming (heart rate, temperature) directly in the browser — course project turned working product | ASP.NET Core · Web Bluetooth API |
| eliaghazal.com | Portfolio & writing — Next.js 15, 100/100 Lighthouse | Next.js · Vercel |
- Backend Engineering Intern — Smart Code, Lebanon (Sep 15 – Nov 3, 2025): Spring Boot REST APIs, Kafka messaging, ISO-message POS socket server
- Instructor — AI Summer Camp for high-schoolers (Jul 2026): designed and taught a beginner AI/programming curriculum
- Co-founder — KGH Solutions, a small software studio (2025–present)
B.S. Computer Science — AUST Beirut, awarded June 2026 (completed in 3 years) · GPA 3.81/4.00 · Distinguished List ×5 semesters
IT Specialist — Python, Certiport/Pearson (2024) · Cisco CCNA (Intro to Networks 2024 · Switching, Routing & Wireless 2025) · Cisco IT Essentials (2024) · Michigan ECPE (English C2) · DELF B2 (French)
Arabic (native) · English (C2) · French (B2) · Italian (learning)
Also the author of Whispers of the Eclipse (poetry, Ukiyoto 2024). Code compiles; poetry endures.