Youssef Al Hariri

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Edinburgh, UK

I am a Machine Learning and AI Engineer at Qualitrol Corporation, where I help drive innovation through Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). My hands-on experience includes: RAG & CAG pipelines, Prompt engineering, and Cloud-native deployments across major platforms.

I have a strong background in technical computing and analytics, with experience across both academia and global industry. In a recent role at an international company, I developed chatbots and RAG/CAG systems, fine-tuned pretrained LLMs, and automated processes for customer support, developer assistance, and report generation. These solutions significantly boosted team productivity by enhancing engagement and reducing manual efforts.

I served as a postdoc Research Associate at the School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. I was also a member at SMASH Research Group, the Neuropolitics Research Lab, and the Digital Influence & Intelligence Lab (DIIL).

My research interests include applying ML and AI to data analytics, computational social science, social and technological network analysis, and data mining.

In November 2022, I completed my PhD at the School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. During my PhD, I used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to study online network dynamics and community interactions on X (formerly Twitter). I was supervised by Prof. Walid Magdy and Dr Maria Wolters. In 2018, I completed my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. During my master’s I focused on NLP, STN, and HCI. My dissertation was about the cultural disengagement among Arab Twitter users. Finally, I completed my BSc in Computer Engineering (Hons) from Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. For the BSc graduation project, we proposed and implemented a metal detection module by leveraging the computational and integration capabilities of the FPGA SoC platform.

My journey reflects a strong blend of academic research and industry innovation, with a focus on applying AI to solve real-world problems.

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  1. TwiXplorer: An Interactive Tool for Narrative Detection and Analysis in Historic Twitter Data
    Youssef Al Hariri, Sandrine Chausson , Björn Ross , and 1 more author
    In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing , Nov 2024
  2. The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-19
    J. Brownlie , Y. Al Hariri , and S. Anderson
    The Sociological Review, Feb 2025
  3. SMASH at AraFinNLP2024: Benchmarking Arabic BERT Models on the Intent Detection
    Youssef Al Hariri, and Ibrahim Abu Farha
    In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference , Aug 2024
  4. SMASH at StanceEval 2024: Prompt Engineering LLMs for Arabic Stance Detection
    Youssef Al Hariri, and Ibrahim Abu Farha
    In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference , Aug 2024
  5. Arabs and Atheism: Religious Discussions in the Arab Twittersphere
    Youssef Al Hariri, Walid Magdy , and Maria Wolters
    In Social Informatics , Aug 2019
  6. Atheists versus Theists: Religious Polarisation in Arab Online Communities
    Youssef Al Hariri, Walid Magdy , and Maria K. Wolters
    Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Oct 2021
  7. Sustainability tweeting triumphs during the COP events: analyzing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) communication on Twitter
    Amr El Alfy , John Quigley , Leilei Tang , and 2 more authors
    Nov 2024