Ahmed Abdou

Ahmed Abdou

ML Engineer at Amazon Music

Previously MLOps @ Zeiss

MSc TUM · BSc GUC

I work on Arabic NLP and founded cAIroNLP.

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Publications

mucAI at BAREC 2025: Towards Uncertainty Aware Arabic Readability Assessment
ArabicNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2025
[paper] [code]
mucAI at AraHealthQA 2025: Explain-Retrieve-Verify Workflow for Multi-Label Arabic Health QA
ArabicNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2025
[paper] [code]
mucAI at WojoodNER 2024: Arabic Named Entity Recognition with Nearest Neighbor Search
ArabicNLP Workshop @ ACL 2024
[paper] [code]
Mind Your Neighbours: Leveraging Analogous Instances for Rhetorical Role Labeling for Legal Documents
Ahmed Abdou*, Hassan Tharwat*, Santosh Tokala, Matthias Grabmair
LREC-COLING 2024
[paper]
Gaze-enhanced Crossmodal Embeddings for Emotion Recognition
Ahmed Abdou*, Ekta Sood*, Phillip Müller, Andreas Bulling
ETRA @ ACM 2022
[paper] [video]

Writing

TL;DR (MSc Thesis): Benchmarking LLMs for Legal Case Classification at the ECtHR · Mar 2025
Triplet Loss Function for Embedding Space Learning · Sep 2020
Non-Causal Associations: Reasons and Examples · Dec 2020

Experience

ML Engineer @ Amazon Music
2024 - Present
MLOps Engineer @ Zeiss
2022 - 2024 · CI/CD pipelines, Azure ML, RAG systems

Education

MSc Data Engineering & Analytics
Technical University of Munich, 2021 - 2025
BSc Computer Engineering
German University in Cairo, 2016 - 2021