Hilal Alquabeh

Assistant Teaching Professor and Research Scientist

Research Interests

Professor Alquabeh's research spans AI interpretability, state-space architectures, spiking neural networks, and optimization for sequence modeling, with applications in NLP, and vision. Email

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Alquabeh has 8 years of experience, including 5 in artificial intelligence and 3 in engineering education.
  • PhD in Machine Leraning
  • MSc in Mechanical Engineering
  • Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Kentaro Inui

  • Improving Generalization and Robustness in SNNs Through Signed Rate Encoding and Sparse Encoding Attacks in ICLR 2025.
  • RECALL: Library-Like Behavior In Language Models is Enhanced by Self-Referencing Causal Cycles in ACL 2025.
  • The geometry of numerical reasoning: Language models compare numeric properties in linear subspaces in NACCL 2025.

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