Hello, I'm

Mouhamad Alim
Al-Amine

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Computer Science graduate from Islamic University of Madinah. Working on reinforcement learning, autonomous systems, and low-resource NLP.

Mouhamad Alim Al-Amine

// About Me

I graduated in Computer Science from the Islamic University of Madinah, originally from the Central African Republic. My work focuses on reinforcement learning for robotic control, FPGA-based neural network inference, and building NLP tools for underserved languages.

Outside of academics, I have been involved in community development work in CAR, coordinating with international organizations on humanitarian initiatives.

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Location

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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University

Islamic University of Madinah

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Origin

Central African Republic

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Focus

AI & Autonomous Systems

Languages

English (Fluent) French (Native) Arabic (Fluent) Sango (Native) Fulani(Native)

// Research

Completed — Top Project Award

Autonomous Quadrotor Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Developed a PPO-based autonomous navigation system for a Crazyflie quadrotor in the Webots simulator. Designed a hierarchical PID+DRL control architecture with curriculum learning across three difficulty stages. Conducted systematic reward engineering across seven iterations, demonstrating that positive reward gradients outperform punitive strategies for continuous robotic control. Ranked top graduation project of the department.

PPO Webots Stable-Baselines3 Curriculum Learning Crazyflie

Status

Paper under review at MDPI Drones • Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from the Faculty Dean

Paper Under Review

SangoNMT: Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation of NLLB-200 for Sango

First dedicated NLP system for Sango, the national language of the Central African Republic spoken by approximately 5.5 million people. Constructed a quality-filtered parallel corpus of 21,125 Sango-French verse pairs, applied LoRA fine-tuning to NLLB-200, and built an integrated translation-plus-speech pipeline. To our knowledge, the first Sango-specific NLP system reported in the literature.

NLLB-200 LoRA HuggingFace MMS-TTS Low-Resource NLP

Resources

Live DemoModel Weights

Primary Interests

Reinforcement Learning Autonomous Systems Intelligent Control Robotics Embedded AI Low resource NLP

Secondary Interests

FPGA-based Acceleration Edge AI Systems Real-time Learning

// Projects

Completed

Computational Pipeline (KAUST)

320-hour intensive program at KAUST Academy. Built automated pipeline integrating AlphaFold2 and AutoDock Vina for computational biology. Focused on workflow optimization and reproducibility.

AlphaFold2 AutoDock Vina Bioinformatics Pipeline

PC Cluster Setup

Configured MPI-based computing cluster for parallel computing coursework. Documented distributed systems setup and demonstrated parallel execution principles across networked nodes.

MPI Distributed Systems Parallel Computing Linux

DE1-SoC FPGA Hex Display

FPGA hex display system for the DE1-SoC (Cyclone V 5CSEMA5F31C6). Implements a reusable 7-segment decoder module supporting full hexadecimal (0–F) output across multiple displays using Verilog HDL.

Verilog FPGA DE1-SoC Quartus Prime Cyclone V

// Education

2021 — 2026 (Expected)

B.Sc. Computer Science

Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia

5-year program including preparatory year • 136 total units

Summer 2025

KAUST Academy — Bioinformatics

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

320-hour intensive computational biology program. Selected participant.

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Relevant Coursework

Machine Learning Algorithm Design and Analysis Software Engineering Operating Systems Parallel & Distributed Computing Database Systems Research Methodology Computer Architecture Computer Networks Computer Security Object-Oriented Programming

// Certifications & Awards

DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

Deep Learning Specialization (5 courses)

DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

Mathematics for Machine Learning & Data Science (3 courses)

University of Michigan / Coursera

Python 3 Programming Specialization (5 courses)

Google / Coursera

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate (8 courses)

U.S. Department of State / OPEN MOOCs

English for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

KAUST Academy

Bioinformatics Program with focus on AI (320 hours)

Distinctions

Certificate of Outstanding Achievement — Graduation Project, Faculty of Computer & Information Systems (April 2026)

Recognition for contribution to ABET accreditation renewal process, Faculty of Computer & Information Systems

Participant — KAUST Academy 2025

// Community Engagement

CRJICAD
Chargé de Communication

Central African Republic

  • Coordinated with UNICEF, US Embassy, and MINUSCA
  • Assisted more than 100 children in obtaining birth certificates after conflict
  • Supported hygiene awareness programs
REJCAD
Community Development

Réseau des Jeunes Centrafricains pour le Développement

Certificate of Recognition for community development involvement.

// Get in Touch

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