Zakaria Kaddari
CS. Prof at ENIAD. Member of the LaRSA lab at ENSA Oujda
I am currently an assistant professor at the National School of Artificial Intelligence and Digital (ENIAD), Berkane, Morocco. In the Past, I was a Computer Science instructor at OFPPT, and before that, I was a software engineer at SQLI. I completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Toumi Bouchentouf in the Computer Science Department at the National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) Oujda. Long time back, I graduated in 2010 with an engineering degree in Computer Science from ENSA, Oujda.
My PhD research focused on advancing the state-of-the-art of Question Answering (QA) systems in the biomedical domain. Mainly, the use of Large Biomedical Language Models in a QA setting over biomedical text.
As part of my computer science research in the LaRSA lab at ENSA Oujda, I am primarily interested in Artificial intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Biomedical LLMs.
news
| Jan 1, 2024 | Started working at ENIAD as an assistant professor |
|---|---|
| May 13, 2023 | I successfully defended my PhD thesis!  |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Our paper “A novel self-attention enriching mechanism for biomedical question answering” has been accepted in the journal of “Expert Systems with Applications” |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Our paper “FrBMedQA: the first French biomedical question answering dataset” has been accepted in the IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence |
selected publications
- ESAA novel self-attention enriching mechanism for biomedical question answeringExpert Systems with Applications, 2023
- FrBMedQAFrBMedQA: the first French biomedical question answering datasetIAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 2022
- CEURLaRSA at BioASQ 10b: classical and novel approaches for biomedical document retrieval and question answeringIn CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022