Fahad Ebrahim
About
Fahad Ebrahim is a second-year ( Jan 2023 - ) PhD student in the Department of Computer Science. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Mike Joy. He received his MSc in computer science from the University of Warwick and his BSc in computer engineering from Kuwait University. Fahad is part of the Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centred Computing research theme.
Research
Fahad's main research interest is to apply Artificial Intelligence in the field of Education. He is interested in text similarity, and plagiarism detection using Natural Language Processing. His current research is related to source code plagiarism detection in computer science education.
Education
- MSc in Computer Science at the University of Warwick ( 2021 - 2022 ).
- MSc in Computer Engineering at Kuwait University ( 2014 - 2016 ).
- BSc in Computer Engineering at Kuwait University ( 2009 - 2013 ).
Experience
- Full-Time Teaching Assistant at Kuwait University ( 2018 - 2021 ).
- Technical Analyst/Professional at Kuwait's Zain Telecom ( 2014 - 2018 ).
- Junior Computer Engineer at Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity and Water ( 2013 - 2014 ).
Teaching
- Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant:
- CS917 Foundations of Computing (Autumn 2023/2024)
Awards
- Best Tool award at NLBSE'24, a workshop associated with ICSE'24.
- Best presentation award in the Machine Learning track at Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science (WPCCS - 2023 Winter).
Publications
- Fahad Ebrahim and Mike Joy. 2024. “Semantic Similarity Search for Source Code Plagiarism Detection: An Exploratory Study”. In Proceedings of the 2024 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2024), July 8–10, 2024, Milan, Italy.
- Fahad Ebrahim and Mike Joy. 2024. “WarwickNLP at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Low-rank cross-encoders for
efficient semantic textual relatedness.” In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic
Evaluation (SemEval-2024). - Fahad Ebrahim and Mike Joy. 2024. “Few-Shot Issue Report Classification with Adapters”. In 2024 ACM/IEEE International Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering (NLBSE ’24), April 20, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Fahad Ebrahim and Mike Joy, “Source Code Plagiarism Detection with Pre-Trained Model Embeddings and Automated Machine Learning”. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 301–309, Varna, Bulgaria.
- Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad Al-Shayeji, Fahad Ebrahim, “A secure and energy-efficient platform for the integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Cloud Computing”.Computer Networks, Volume 165, 2019, 106956, ISSN 1389-1286.
- Al Shayeji, Mohammad H., Fahad Ebrahim, and M. D. Samrajesh. “Performance Analysis of Video Codecs Using Transport Stream Video.” Advanced Science Letters 21, no. 1 (2015): 102-106.
Fahad Ebrahim
Department of Computer Science,
The University of Warwick,
CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK.