Hassan Barmandah

Umm Al-Qura University · Makkah, Saudi Arabia

GPA: 3.87 / 4.00

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (On-site)

• Conducting applied AI research within KACST's National Lab.

NAMAA Community · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote) · Board Member, Research Team Lead: Aug 2026–Present · Researcher: Jan 2026–Aug 2026

• Developed state-of-the-art Arabic NLP, OCR, HTR, and speech diacritization systems for LREC 2026 shared tasks, benchmarking 18+ deep learning models, fine-tuning foundation models with LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, and 4-bit quantization, building ensemble pipelines and CER/WER/DER/SER evaluation workflows, and publishing peer-reviewed research at LREC 2026.

King Khalid University · Abha, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

• Led the research design and development of Sarab, a cause-diagnostic Arabic visual hallucination benchmark for multimodal LLMs, building the Arabic Cultural Visual Vocabulary (ACVV), Islamic and cultural evaluation tasks, an absent-answer detection protocol, diagnostic metrics including accuracy, recall, CATR, and false-abstention rates, and reproducible evaluation pipelines benchmarked and ablated across four multimodal models.

Alfaisal's AI Center · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (On-site)

• Led end-to-end research and engineering of Asalah (asalah.ai), a generative AI evaluation platform benchmarking cultural fidelity across 10 image-generation models with 1,420 AI-generated images over 142 prompts and a full-stack platform (Django, React/TypeScript) with a live Bradley–Terry ranking model, and led AI/ML development of WarfaRisk, a fairness-aware warfarin dosing pipeline with 9-architecture ablation, conformal calibration, SHAP explainability, and a FHIR R4 interface, co-authoring two manuscripts under review at MDPI AI and MDPI Pharmaceutics.

Umm Al-Qura University · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Hybrid)

• Led the end-to-end development of Haakkim, an arena-style human-preference evaluation platform for Arabic LLMs, collecting 1,100+ pairwise comparisons across 67 models and 11 Arabic dialects via a Python/FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend, ranking models with a Bradley–Terry model, and co-authoring the resulting paper submitted to IEEE Access.

MawHub · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

• Building the Sourcing Harness engineering system at MawHub.

Synapse · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia · Deputy Director Mar 2026–Present · AI Engineer Oct 2025–Mar 2026

• Designed and built end-to-end AI applications, RAG systems, and scalable APIs using Python, FastAPI, embedding models, and vector databases, integrating LLMs into production workflows and optimizing inference latency and retrieval quality across the full AI application stack; now leads the Technical & Development Department as Deputy Director.

Lucidya · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

• Designed AI-powered internal engineering tools (Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, AWS Bedrock), including RAG pipelines with FAISS, multi-agent workflows, and the Ask LuQua enterprise assistant, contributing to Lucidya's Quality of Work Initiative and seven AI tools projected to save approximately 2,500 engineering hours per month across 100+ engineers.

Quality of Work Initiative Article

Uptrail · London, UK (Remote)

• Delivered end-to-end data analysis on real-world business datasets, cleaning and validating data with Python, SQL, and Excel, running exploratory data analysis, building interactive dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, and writing optimized SQL queries; awarded an official recommendation letter for analytical rigor, technical proficiency, and collaborative contributions.

Recommendation Letter

Smart Methods · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (On-site)

• Built robotics and AI systems integrating Arduino/ESP32 embedded control, OpenCV computer vision pipelines, ROS2 robotics applications, IoT sensor and actuator systems, CAD-designed robotic components, and an STT/TTS/LLM voice assistant, collaborating across mechanical, electronics, software, and AI teams.

Specialized Med AI Lab (SMAIL) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

Global Students Research Conference (GSR) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

Umm Al-Qura University

• Lead strategic planning for club activities, member engagement, and project-based learning initiatives.
• Organize workshops and events focused on research and innovation for university students.

RDC UQU

Global Students Research Conference (GSR)

Umm Al-Qura University

RDC UQU

AL-YAMAMA Company

AL-YAMAMA Company

Ministry of Sport

Removed graffiti across Makkah with 100+ volunteers as part of a joint social-service initiative by the Holy Makkah Municipality and the Ministry of Sport.

Ashour Hotel

Worked as a receptionist and English translator for Hajj pilgrims, handling check-ins, room information, and guest needs, and translating between English-speaking guests and hotel staff.

Ashour Hotel

Worked as a receptionist for Hajj pilgrims, handling check-ins, room assignments, and guest inquiries, and coordinating with hotel staff to ensure a comfortable stay.

Associated with Umm Al-Qura University

Associated with Umm Al-Qura University

Associated with الأساليب الذكية Smart Methods