01Applied AI · Retrieval · Evaluation
Built a document-grounded RAG pipeline at OeNB.
A specialized chatbot workflow that grounds answers in an OeNB document collection and measures whether retrieval finds the right evidence.
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Mohamed Ali / Applied AI Engineer
I take models apart to find out which part is doing the work.
Retrieval systems, sequence-model ablations, and vision models — built, measured, and reported with the uncertainty left in. The digit classifier on the right is one of mine, written from scratch in C++.
- 4th / ~200 image-restoration competition, on an 8GB card
- 12 × 5 xLSTM configurations × seeds, mean ± 95% CI
- 9 months applied AI at Austria's central bank
Live forward pass · 784 → 100 → 10my C++ weights, in your browser
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MNIST digits were size-normalised into a 20×20 box and shifted so their centre of mass sits at the centre of the 28×28 field. Feed a raw stroke straight in (1) and the network reads the wrong distribution, so the drawing is cropped and rescaled (2), then translated by centre of mass (3). Step 3 is what the network actually sees.
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PROJECTS / 01—06
Selected projects
Applied systems and controlled experiments, with the implementation and evidence kept visible.
02Sequence models · Experimental research
Isolated what xLSTM blocks contribute.
A capacity-matched study of two-block xLSTM, LSTM, and Transformer models on associative recall and formal-language tasks.
Open case study03Computer vision · Image restoration
Placed 4th in an image-restoration competition with roughly 200 students.
A from-scratch image-restoration entry that placed fourth while training on an 8GB GPU.
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04Audio ML · Feature fusion
Compared bird-call models under class imbalance.
An experimental comparison of model families, hyperparameters, acoustic representations, and evaluation criteria for bird-species recognition.
Open case study05Visual analytics · Geographic data
Mapped new-coder geography across 91 countries.
Two country maps compare 2018 HDI with the percentage of surveyed new coders living in cities of more than one million people.
Open case study06C++ · Neural-network fundamentals
Built a neural network from scratch in C++.
A handwritten-digit neural network implemented from first principles in C++ as a hands-on project for fun.
Open case studyPROFILE / CURRENT
From document retrieval to model internals.
At OeNB, I worked on document processing, retrieval, language-model workflows, and retrieval evaluation for RAG systems.
At JKU, I completed a Bachelor's in Artificial Intelligence and am continuing with a part-time Master's while building deeper experimental work.
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