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)

• Built a large-scale benchmarking framework spanning 18+ deep learning models for LREC 2026 Arabic NLP shared tasks (OCR, handwritten-text recognition, speech diacritization).

King Khalid University · Abha, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

• Led research and design of Sarab, a cause-diagnostic Arabic visual hallucination benchmark for multimodal LLMs, evaluated across four models.

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

• Led Asalah (asalah.ai), a generative AI evaluation platform benchmarking cultural fidelity across 10 image-generation models — 1,420 generated images over 142 prompts; two manuscripts under review at MDPI AI and MDPI Pharmaceutics.

Umm Al-Qura University · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• Led development of Haakkim, an arena-style human-preference evaluation platform for Arabic LLMs — 1,100+ pairwise comparisons across 67 models, ranked via Bradley–Terry; 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

• Built production RAG systems — vector search, embedding pipelines, LLM inference — for internal applications; now leads the Technical & Development Department as Deputy Director.

Lucidya · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

• Contributed to Lucidya's Quality of Work Initiative — 7 AI-powered engineering tools projected to save ~2,500 engineering hours per month across 100+ engineers.

Uptrail · London, UK (Remote)

• Delivered dashboards and statistical analysis on real-world business datasets using Python, SQL, Tableau, and Power BI; awarded an official recommendation letter.

Recommendation Letter

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

• Built robotics and AI systems — embedded control (Arduino/ESP32), OpenCV perception pipelines, ROS2 workflows, and an STT/TTS/LLM voice assistant.

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

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

Umm Al-Qura University

Global Students Research Conference (GSR)

Umm Al-Qura University

AL-YAMAMA Company

AL-YAMAMA Company

Ministry of Sport

Ashour Hotel