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Graduated with Ph.D. in Computer Science.<\/p>

Mohamad is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science. With a deep understanding of Natural Language Processing and a talent for designing algorithms, he is well on his way to making significant contributions to the field. Alongside his research pursuits, he has taken on the role of instructor and teaching assistant for various courses, including Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computation Theory, Data Science, Machinery and Machine Learning, earning him the teaching excellence award. His current research focus is on the detection and generation of poetry and creative language, demonstrating his passion for both technology and literature. When he’s not in front of a computer, Mohamad enjoys biking, hiking and indulging in his love of poetry.<\/p>

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi\u00a0and\u00a0Richard Zhao.\u00a0Tah\u1e0f\u012bb: A Rhythm-Aware Phrase Insertion for Classical Arabic Poetry Composition<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the 3rd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)<\/em> (co-located with EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China, Nov, 2025, p194-202. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 39%.<\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao. Poems to Lyrics: Automated Rephrasing with Beat Alignment<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)<\/em>, Campinas, Brazil, June, 2025. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 39%.<\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao. Poems, Pulses and Polygons: How Classical Arabic Poetry Resonates with Music and Geometry<\/a>. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2024)<\/em>, Dubai, UAE, September, 2024. [Link<\/a>]<\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao. Let the Poem Hit the Rhythm: Using a Byte-Based Transformer for Beat-Aligned Poetry Generation<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)<\/em>, J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, Sweden, June, 2024. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 44.4%.<\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao.\u00a0ContrastWSD: Enhancing Metaphor Detection with Word Sense Disambiguation Following the Metaphor Identification Procedure<\/a>. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)<\/em>, Torino, Italy, May, 2024, p3907\u20133915. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 44.8%.<\/p>

Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao. Creative Data Generation: A Review Focusing on Text and Poetry<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC23)<\/em>, Waterloo, Canada, June, 2023. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 36%.<\/p>

Thesis:<\/strong><\/p>

AlGeoRhythm: Exploring the Geometric Patterns in Poetry Rhythms and the Generation of Beat-Aligned Poetic Texts<\/a><\/p>

Award:<\/strong><\/p>

Departmental Teaching Assistant Award, 2022\/2023.<\/p>

Internship:<\/strong><\/p>

Skillsetter Inc.<\/p>

Academic Service:<\/strong><\/p>

Program Committee Member\/Reviewer.\u00a0The Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)<\/em>, October, 2023.<\/p><\/div>