Kumail Alhamoud

Kumail Alhamoud

PhD Student - EECS

MIT

Biography

I am a PhD student at MIT advised by Prof. Marzyeh Ghassemi. I obtained my BS from Cornell University. After that, I was an MS student at KAUST, where I conducted research in computer vision under the guidance of Prof. Bernard Ghanem. I also closely collaborate with Dr. Adel Bibi and Prof. Philip Torr from Oxford.

My research aims to make deep learning models more deployable, with a focus on adaptation and evaluation under distribution shifts. My work spans different data modalities and has been applied to tackle problems in medical imaging, chemistry, and industrial optimization.

Some of my research has been spotlighted by MIT CSAIL (link to blogpost and video).

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Interests
  • Vision-Language Learning
  • Large-Scale Evaluation Benchmarks
  • Learning from Synthetic Data
  • ML for Healthcare
Education
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), 2023-Present

    MIT

  • MS in Computer Science, 2021-2023

    KAUST

  • BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021

    Cornell University

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Graduate Researcher
Aug 2023 – Present Cambridge, MA

Projects include:

  • Tackling Negation Understanding in Vision-Language Models
  • Addressing Demographic and Temporal Shifts through Federated Continual Learning
 
 
 
 
 
KAUST, Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL)
Graduate Researcher
Sep 2021 – May 2023 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Projects include:

  • Video Continual Learning
  • Generalization and Transferability of Molecular Graph Representations
  • Domain Generalization and Adversarial Robustness
 
 
 
 
 
Cornell University, Fengqi You Research Group
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Ithaca, NY, USA

Projects include:

  • Quantum Computing for Industrial Scheduling Optimization
  • Deep Generative Modeling for Automatic Molecular Design and Drug Discovery
 
 
 
 
 
Boston University, Damp Lab
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 Boston, MA, USA
Helped develop a software tool, using BLAST and Python, that uses DNA Sequence Alignment for Sequence Pathogenicity Screening.

Awards and Fellowships

KAUST
Best Poster Award at SCML 2022
Awarded by the KAUST Research Conference on Scientific Computing and Machine Learning for work on “Chemistry-informed Graph Representation Learning for Molecular Conformation Generation and Beyond.”
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Misk
Saudi Leadership Society Fellow
Chosen by the Misk Foundation as an inaugural member of the prestigious Saudi Leadership Society.
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Cornell University
Summa Cum Laude (Highest Distinction)
Graduated with the highest distinction (Summa Cum Laude) from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Cornell University.
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Cornell University
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Awarded for my performance as a TA in INFO/CS 4300: Language and Information.
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Rhodes Trust
Rhodes Scholarship Finalist
Added to the historical list of finalists at one of the most prestigious international scholarships.
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KAUST
KAUST Gifted Student Program Scholarship
A highly selective, full-tuition-and-expenses scholarship, awarded to few outstanding Saudi students.