🌐 Personal Website • 📄 Google Scholar
I am a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and a member of the CHARM Lab, supervised by Amir-Hossein Karimi.
My research focuses on building controllable and physically grounded AI systems, with particular interests in:
- 🎨 Generative AI & Controlled Image Generation
- 🌍 Representation Learning, JEPA, and World Models
Previously:
- Applied Scientist Intern @ Microsoft (Shopping AI)
- Research Intern @ EPFL NeuroAI Lab (Summer@EPFL)
Text-to-3D generation using Gaussian Splatting, diffusion models, and Score Distillation Sampling (SDS).
🔗 https://github.com/Text-to-3D-Generation/Word2World
Multimodal topographic foundation model for discovering and validating brain-like functional organization through human fMRI alignment and causal interventions.
- Generative Models
- Diffusion Models
- Mean Flows
- Representation Learning
- World Models
- Explainable AI
- Computer Vision
- Multimodal Learning
- NeuroAI
🌐 Website: https://aabdelaal.netlify.app/
📄 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=IqMz0o8AAAAJ
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/abdelaal495
📧 ahmed.moh.abdelaal@gmail.com
📍 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada