I'm a research scientist at Facebook AI research (FAIR) in Seattle, WA. Before FAIR, I was a principal scientist manager in Amazon Alexa AI team. From 2014 to 2017, I was a researcher in Microsoft Research (MSR) Redmond. I received my PhD from the University of Toronto working with Gerald Penn and Geoffrey Hinton where I was part of the team that started the Deep Learning revolution in Spoken Language Processing in 2009. I received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Journal Paper Award in 2016. My research interests span Deep Learning, Spoken Language Processing, and Natural Language Understanding.
Dec 2016: Our paper "Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Recognition" received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for 2016.
Recent Papers
Kritika Singh, Dmytro Okhonko, Jun Liu, Yongqiang Wang, Frank Zhang, Ross Girshick, Sergey Edunov, Fuchun Peng, Yatharth Saraf, Geoffrey Zweig, Abdelrahman Mohamed, "Training ASR models by Generation of Contextual Information" [pdf]
Yongqiang Wang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Duc Le, Chunxi Liu, Alex Xiao, Jay Mahadeokar, Hongzhao Huang, Andros Tjandra, Xiaohui Zhang, Frank Zhang, Christian Fuegen, Geoffrey Zweig, Michael L Seltzer, "Transformer-based Acoustic Modeling for Hybrid Speech Recognition" [pdf]
Abdelrahman Mohamed, Dmytro Okhonko, Luke Zettlemoyer, "Transformers with convolutional context for ASR" [pdf]
Chong Wang, Yining Wang, Po-Sen Huang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Dengyong Zhou, Li Deng, "Sequence Modeling via Segmentations" ICML 2017. [pdf]
Jinyu Li, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Zweig, Yifan Gong, "LSTM time and frequency recurrence for automatic speech recognition," ASRU 2015. [pdf]
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Frank Seide, Dong Yu, Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stoicke, Geoffrey Zweig, Gerald Penn, "Deep bi-directional recurrent networks over spectral windows" ASRU 2015. [pdf]
Alex Graves, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton, "Speech recognition with deep recurrent neural networks", ICASSP 2013. [pdf]
Tara N. Sainath, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, "Deep convolutional neural networks for LVCSR", in ICASSP 2013. [pdf]
Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Hui Jiang, Li Deng, Gerald Penn, Dong Yu, "Convolutional neural networks for speech recognition", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 2014. [link]
Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George E. Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Navdeep Jaitly, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara N. Sainath, Brian Kingsbury, "Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The shared views of four research groups", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. [pdf]
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Dong Yu, Li Deng, "Investigation of Full-Sequence Training of Deep Belief Networks for Speech Recognition", Interspeech 2010. [pdf]
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Dahl, Geoffrey Hinton, "Acoustic Modeling using Deep Belief Networks", IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 2012. [pdf]
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Dahl, Geoffrey Hinton, "Deep Belief Networks for phone recognition", NIPS 2009, Workshop on Deep Learning for Speech Recognition and Related Applications, Whistler, BC, Canada.[pdf]
Gregor Urban, Krzysztof J Geras, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ozlem Aslan, Shengjie Wang, Rich Caruana, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Matthai Philipose, Matt Richardson, "Do Deep Convolutional Nets Really Need to be Deep (Or Even Convolutional)?" ICLR 2017. [pdf]
Shengjie Wang, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Rich Caruana, Jeff Bilmes, Matthai Plilipose, Matthew Richardson, Krzysztof Geras, Gregor Urban, Ozlem Aslan, "Analysis of deep neural networks with extended data jacobian matrix," ICML 2016. [pdf]
Krzysztof J Geras, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Rich Caruana, Gregor Urban, Shengjie Wang, Ozlem Aslan, Matthai Philipose, Matthew Richardson, Charles Sutton, "Blending LSTMs into CNNs," ICLR 2016. [pdf]
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton, Gerald Penn, "Understanding how deep belief networks perform acoustic modeling," ICASSP 2012. [pdf]
Program Synthesis/Induction
Jacob Devlin, Jonathan Uesato, Surya Bhupatiraju, Rishabh Singh, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Pushmeet Kohli, "Robustfill: Neural program learning under noisy I/O," ICML 2017. [pdf]
Surya Bhupatiraju, Rishabh Singh, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Pushmeet Kohli, "Deep API Programmer: Learning to Program with APIs," arxiv 2017. [pdf]
Language Representation and Conversational Systems
Rasool Fakoor, Amanjit Kainth, Siamak Shakeri, Christopher Winestock, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Ruhi Sarikaya, "Direct optimization of F-measure for retrieval-based personal question answering," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) 2018, [pdf]
Tong Wang, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Graeme Hirst, "Learning lexical embeddings with syntactic and lexicographic knowledge," ACL 2015, [pdf]
Systems for Language and Pronunciation Learning
Jacques Duchateau, Yuk On Kong, Leen Cleuren, Lukas Latacz, Jan Roelens, Abdurrahman Samir, Kris Demuynck, Pol Ghesquiere, Werner Verhelst and Hugo Van hamme. "Developing a Reading Tutor: Design and Evaluation of Dedicated Speech Recognition and Synthesis Modules". Speech Communication, Volume 51, Issue 10, October 2009. [pdf]
Abdurrahman Samir, Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Ahmed Husien Khalil, Mohsen Rashwan (2007): "Enhancing usability of CAPL system for qur'an recitation learning", in INTERSPEECH-2007, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 214-217.[pdf]
Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Salah Eldeen Hamid, Mohsen Rashwan, Abdurrahman Samir, Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Mostafa Shahin, Waleed Nazih (2006): "Computer aided pronunciation learning system using speech recognition techniques", in INTERSPEECH-2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 1888-1891.[pdf]