Alaqsa Akbar

    Alaqsa
    Akbar

    AI engineer at HUMAIN, building multi-agent systems that automate enterprise workflows.

    My research is on generative models for Saudi Sign Language. Next, I want to do a PhD on world models trained with reinforcement learning.

    Alaqsa Akbar on a mountain trail above a valley

    About

    I'm an AI engineer at HUMAIN, where I work on HUMAIN Crew, a multi-agent system that automates enterprise agentic workflows.

    I studied computer engineering at KFUPM with a research concentration in AI, spent an exchange term at Georgia Tech, and took advanced AI coursework at Oxford as one of 15 students selected from more than 7,000 applicants.

    Before any of that I was on Saudi Arabia's mathematics olympiad team, and I still reach for a proof when a model misbehaves.

    Experience

    1. HUMAIN

      AI Engineer

      HUMAIN, Riyadh. 2026 to now

      HUMAIN Crew: teams of agents that plan, call tools and hand work to each other to run enterprise workflows end to end.

      • Multi-agent systems
      • Agentic workflows
      • LLMs
    2. SDAIAKFUPM

      Researcher

      SDAIA–KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. 2024, and 2025 to 2026

      Sign language video generation with Dr. Motaz Alfarraj: diffusion transformers conditioned on retrieved VQ-VAE pose tokens, trained on SLURM clusters.

      Before that, with Dr. Abduljabbar Siddiqui: adversarial patches that still work in the rain, with a data pipeline that generates training data on the fly.

      • Video diffusion
      • Sign language
      • Adversarial robustness
    3. Baker Hughes

      ML Research Intern

      Baker Hughes, Houston. Summer 2025

      Recovered low-frequency signals from distributed acoustic sensing with compressed sensing, and built abnormality detection models for embedded systems. Advised by Dr. Peyman Moradi.

      • Compressed sensing
      • Signal processing
      • Anomaly detection
    4. Georgia Tech

      Research Assistant

      OLIVES Lab, Georgia Tech. Fall 2024

      Cleaned, documented and published terabyte-scale seismic and ophthalmology datasets on Hugging Face, with Prof. Ghassan AlRegib's lab.

      • Medical imaging
      • Seismic data
      • Datasets
    Qimam Fellowship
    One of 50 chosen from more than 18,000 applicants, 2025
    KAUST Academy at Oxford
    One of 15 chosen from more than 7,000 applicants, 2024
    BCG Jeel Tamooh
    Fellow
    Saudi Mathematics Olympiad Team
    Junior Balkan MO in Cyprus, where the team placed third

    Research

    SSL-DiT: Saudi Sign Language video generation using multi-condition diffusion transformers

    My undergraduate thesis. A diffusion transformer generates Saudi Sign Language video from several conditioning signals at once.

    It grew out of my proposal, SSLVG, a text-to-gloss-to-video pipeline: each sign's pose is retrieved as a VQ-VAE latent, a transformer models the transitions between signs, and the result conditions a DiT. Evaluated on Isharah-1000 and KArSL.

    KFUPM, 2026. Advised by Dr. Motaz Alfarraj. Paper in preparation.

    BreachSeek: a multi-agent automated penetration tester

    Language-model agents that plan a penetration test, carry out the attack, and report the vulnerabilities they find.

    Alshehri, Alshehri, Almalki, Bamardouf and Akbar. arXiv, 2024.

    Next: world models

    I want to do a PhD on world models: learning predictive representations of the world in the spirit of JEPA, and training them with reinforcement learning.

    Projects

    Saudi Sign Language Recognition

    Continuous sign language recognition for Saudi Sign Language on the Isharah-500 dataset, with Dr. Hamzah Luqman.

    6.74% word error rate on the development set

    2025–2026

    RainPGD

    Do adversarial patches still fool object detectors in the rain? RainPGD makes PGD patches hold up under rain, and RainyCOCO adds detection data across rain conditions. With Dr. Abduljabbar Siddiqui.

    2024

    Transformer

    The architecture from Attention Is All You Need, implemented from scratch.

    2024

    Where I've been

    Middle East

    Europe

    Asia Americas

    Off screen

    Bouldering, climbing and hiking, usually with a camera somewhere in the bag.

    Say hello

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