VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Mohab Elkaref
dblp:205/3009
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4ranked-venue papers
0as first author
4since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 3 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 2 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 52% Question answering and dialogue systems · 26% Information extraction and text analysis · 22% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
2 papers |
Computing education · 54% Bioinformatics and computational biology · 46% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
domain adaptation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation Platform · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation Platform · AAAI 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › question generation
question-answer pair generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation Platform · AAAI 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis › document analysis › scholarly text analysis
scientific text mining |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | KnowledgeHub: An End-to-End Tool for Assisted Scientific Discovery · IJCAI 2024 |
Data mining › knowledge discovery process
scientific knowledge discovery |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | KnowledgeHub: An End-to-End Tool for Assisted Scientific Discovery · IJCAI 2024 |
Computing education
educational technology |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation Platform · AAAI 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
knowledge graph construction · 2.3large language model · 1.7fine-tuning · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation PlatformabstractWe present QGen Studio: an adaptive question-answer generation, training, and evaluation platform. QGen Studio enables users to leverage large language models (LLMs) to create custom question-answer datasets and fine-tune models on this synthetic data. It features a dataset viewer and model explorer to streamline this process. The dataset viewer provides key metrics and visualizes the context from which the QA pairs are generated, offering insights into data quality. The model explorer supports model comparison, allowing users to contrast the performance of their trained LLMs against other models, supporting performance benchmarking and refinement. QGen Studio delivers an interactive, end-to-end solution for generating QA datasets and training scalable, domain-adaptable models. The studio will be open-sourced soon, allowing users to deploy it locally. Movina Moses, Mohab Elkaref, James Barry, Shinnosuke Tanaka, Vishnudev Kuruvanthodi, Nathan Herr, Campbell D. Watson, Geeth de Mel |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2024 | KnowledgeHub: An End-to-End Tool for Assisted Scientific Discovery
Shinnosuke Tanaka, James Barry, Vishnudev Kuruvanthodi, Movina Moses, Maxwell Giammona, Nathan Herr, Mohab Elkaref, Geeth de Mel |
IJCAI | 7 |
| 2023 | Taxonomy-Guided Fine-Grained Entity Set ExpansionabstractEntity set expansion, the task of expanding a small set of similar entities into a much larger set, is a vital step for downstream tasks such as named entity recognition, knowledge base construction and information retrieval. Existing entity set expansion methods were developed by mainly considering entities at coarse-grained levels, which encounter difficulties for entity set expansion at fine-grained levels, due to the subtlety on fine-grained type inference and semantic drifting. In this study, we propose an automated (i.e. without human annotation), fine-grained set expansion framework, FGExpan, which utilizes a taxonomy structure and a pre-trained language model to achieve high performance. To facilitate our testing, a new fine-grained set expansion dataset is also constructed. Experiments on this dataset and those used in previous studies show that FGExpan achieves significantly better performance (MAP up by 0.176) on finegrained types and also the state-of-the-art expansion quality on coarse-grained entity sets. Jinfeng Xiao, Mohab Elkaref, Nathan Herr, Geeth de Mel, Jiawei Han 0001 |
SDM | 2 |
| 2021 | Fast or efficient? Strategy selection in the game Entropy Mastermind
Lara Bertram, Florian Elsäßer, Albero Feduzi, Zsófia Gyarmathy, Weronika Kowalik, Aaliyah Onojaife, Mohab Elkaref, Eloisa Bentivegna, Jonathan D. Nelson |
CogSci | 7 |