Salam Thabet Doghmash

Deep Learning Transformers NLP

Building deep-learning systems that listen across languages — at production scale.

01 — Profile

About me ·

I am a PhD researcher in Computer Science at Gazi University, specializing in deep learning, Natural Language Processing, and multilingual hate speech detection. With 4+ years in applied machine learning and 6+ years in software engineering, I bridge rigorous research with production-ready engineering.

My current research evaluates transformer architectures (XLM-RoBERTa, MARBERT) for cross-lingual content moderation in Arabic, Turkish, and English — with published work at ICE 2025 and ongoing PhD research at Gazi University.

02 — Research

Research & Publications

2026

JOURNAL

Android application for multilingual hate speech detection: using XLM-RoBERTa and ONNX optimized

Journal of Computer & Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sciences (JCEEES) · Manuscript №29363 · S. T. Doghmash, İ. A. Doğru, K. Kılıç

Implements a real-time multilingual hate-speech detection system as a native Android app. XLM-RoBERTa is fine-tuned on Arabic, Turkish, and English data, then exported and quantised to ONNX for on-device inference. Demonstrates the practical deployment of transformer models to mobile environments with optimised latency and memory footprint.

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2025

CONFERENCE

Multilingual Hate Speech Detection with XLM-RoBERTa

International Conference of Innovative Computer Engineering (ICE 2025) · S. Doghmash et al.

Designed and evaluated a multilingual ML pipeline for hate speech detection in Arabic, Turkish, and English. Implemented baseline models (TF-IDF + LR, SVM, RF) using a soft-voting ensemble, then fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa with GPU acceleration, balanced sampling, and early stopping. Achieved 72.3% accuracy and 0.7079 Macro F1. Models were exported to ONNX and evaluated for real-time inference via API and Android deployment.

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2022

THESIS

Detecting and Cleaning Arabic Hate Speech Texts Using Deep Learning Approach

Islamic University of Gaza · MSc Thesis · S. Doghmash (Supervisor: Dr. Motaz Saad)

Master's thesis addressing two problems: Arabic hate speech detection using deep learning models (RNN, CNN, and Transformers); and cleaning offensive/hate speech texts using a machine translation model with a parallel corpus of clean and dirty sentences. Includes analysis of dialectal variation, annotation noise, and dataset bias.

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— Crafted on the web

Selected work

A selection of websites, dashboards, and web systems I have shipped over 7+ years — for charities, government, agencies, and product companies.

LIVE

Web App 2026

LINKON — Arabic E-commerce SaaS Platform

LINKON · SaaS Product

Multi-tenant SaaS that lets an Arabic-speaking merchant launch a branded storefront on their own domain in minutes. Built all three surfaces — the storefront, the merchant CRM, and the agency referral portal — with two-way WooCommerce sync, multi-warehouse inventory, product bundles, SMS + email notifications, AI content generation, and a live store designer that previews every change before checkout.

React TypeScript Vite Tailwind CSS Supabase Recharts +3

LIVE

Website 2026

Al-Rayyan News — Arabic News Portal

Al-Rayyan News · Baqa & Jatt

A daily Arabic news portal covering local, Palestinian, Israeli and world news. Built the reader-facing site and the newsroom admin behind it — breaking-news ticker, category sections, most-read ranking, search, a WhatsApp broadcast channel, and Google News SEO with a dedicated news sitemap. Installable as a PWA and RTL throughout.

React Vite Tailwind CSS Supabase PWA Google News SEO +1

S LIVE

Web App 2026

Sho fi AI? — Arabic AI Newsletter

Personal Project

An automated Arabic newsletter and learning platform that tracks, summarizes and explains AI research and concepts in simple Arabic — 60+ original explainer articles, a live glossary, an RSS radar and a weekly email, built end-to-end on PHP.

PHP MariaDB LLM APIs RSS SEO Brevo

LIVE

Website 2024

GIG — Genocide in Gaza Documentation

gigaza.org · Documentation initiative

A documentation platform recording events of the genocide in Gaza. The site presents archived material with careful information design — accessibility, multilingual support, and resilience to high traffic spikes were core requirements.

WordPress PHP Multilingual Accessibility Performance

LIVE

Internal System 2026

Drowning Detection with YOLOv8

Research Project

A real-time computer-vision system that detects swimmers in distress using YOLOv8 object detection and OpenCV, trained on a custom dataset of 1,193 images. Draws bounding boxes on drowning events in images and video.

Python YOLOv8 OpenCV Computer Vision +1

LIVE

Website 2026

AUK Forum CIC — Community Platform

AUK Forum CIC · London

Web platform for AUK Forum CIC — a London-based Community Interest Company empowering Arab communities through education, engagement, and social initiatives. Built for clarity, accessibility, and multilingual reach.

PHP MySQL Multilingual Accessibility +1

LIVE

Website 2026

AUK × Sawa Travel — Umrah 2026

AUK · Sawa Travel

Landing experience for the joint Umrah 2026 pilgrimage organised by AUK and Sawa Travel — package details, registration flow, and itinerary tailored for UK-based Arab families.

WordPress PHP Custom Landing Multilingual +1

APYA LIVE

Website 2025

APYA — Arab Personality of the Year

APYA · UK Awards

Official site for the UK's premier awards event honouring leadership, achievements, and contributions of the Arab community across the United Kingdom.

WordPress PHP Awards Platform Multilingual +1

LIVE

Website 2024

AUK Gala Dinner 2024 — Honouring Arab Excellence

AUK · Annual Gala

Event site for AUK's annual gala dinner — honouring the most distinguished Arab personalities of 2024 alongside an art auction supporting Gaza. Built for ticketing, schedule, honouree profiles, and live bidding access.

WordPress PHP Multilingual Tickets +1

LIVE

WordPress 2024

Joshen Tech — Digital Solutions Agency

Joshen Tech · Saudi Arabia

Saudi digital solutions company specialising in websites and mobile applications. Built and maintained the corporate site and shipped multiple client web platforms during 2024.

Wordpress JavaScript MySQL REST API +1

LIVE

Website 2024

AMD Consulting — Management Advisory

AMD · Saudi Arabia

Corporate website for a Saudi management and financial consulting firm. Designed for clarity and trust — service catalogue, team profiles, and inquiry flow tuned for B2B audiences.

WordPress PHP Custom Theme SEO

LIVE

Website 2024

Aftar — Web Platform

Aftar

Web platform delivered for the Aftar brand — landing experience and content architecture built for clarity and fast iteration.

PHP JavaScript MySQL Responsive

LIVE

Website 2024

Marsam — Real Estate Development

Marsam · Saudi Arabia

Corporate site for a Saudi real estate development company — project portfolio, property listings, and inquiry routing optimised for high-intent visitors.

WordPress PHP Custom Theme Real Estate

LIVE

WordPress 2023

Alarab in UK — AUK

AUK · Arabic Platform · London

Arabic-language platform for the Arab community living in the UK.

WordPress PHP MySQL Multilingual

Web App 2021

Sirius for Information Technology

Sirius — Gaza

Project Manager for multiple websites and mobile application projects. Owned planning, requirements analysis, and team coordination across Agile and Waterfall workflows.

Agile Waterfall Slack Trello +1

Internal System 2020

Mayor Files Archive — Ministry of Local Government

Ministry of Local Government, Gaza

Built an internal archival system for the mayor's office to digitize and search physical documents — using CodeIgniter PHP framework with Oracle database.

CodeIgniter PHP Oracle jQuery

WordPress 2019

Coktilat — Charity Websites Suite

Coktilat

Developed and shipped multiple WordPress websites for charitable organizations, with custom themes, multilingual content, and donation flows.

WordPress PHP MySQL ACF +1

06 — Available for client work

Build with me

I take on a small number of client projects each quarter — building multilingual websites, custom web systems, and AI-powered applications.

Websites

Corporate, community, and event sites — built to be fast, accessible, and multilingual from day one.

Multilingual · Arabic / English / Türkçe
Accessibility (WCAG-AA) and SEO ready
Optional admin panel for content updates

Most requested

Web Systems

Custom internal tools: admin dashboards, archives, registration flows, booking systems — anything off-the-shelf can't solve.

Custom PHP + MySQL or modern stacks
Role-based authentication and audit logs
Reports, exports, and admin analytics

AI Integration

Bring deep-learning models into production: text classification, multilingual NLP, content moderation, recommendation systems.

PyTorch · Transformers · ONNX
On-device or cloud inference
Practical mobile (Android) and web pipelines

Message me on LinkedIn

Booking client projects for the next quarter. I reply within 48 hours.

04 — Experience

Professional journey

Oct 2022 — Present Present

PhD Researcher — AI & NLP

Gazi University

Ankara, Turkey

Researching multilingual transformer architectures, model evaluation methodologies, reproducibility, and ethical AI. Published at ICE 2025 with ongoing thesis work in cross-lingual content moderation.

Mar 2023 — Mar 2024

Project Manager & Web Developer

LINKON

Remote

Led cross-functional technical teams delivering data-driven web and analytics solutions. Managed full project lifecycle using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022

Data Scientist

AutoECG · UCAS Incubator

Gaza, Palestine

Developed ML models for ECG signal analysis and classification. Led preprocessing, feature extraction, and supervised model training in an applied AI healthcare project.

Sep 2021 — Aug 2022

Lecturer

Al-Israa University

Gaza, Palestine

Taught Web Programming, Databases, and CMS courses. Supervised student projects and provided academic mentoring.

Jan 2018 — Jan 2023

Web Developer / Project Manager

Various Organizations

Gaza & Remote

Designed and developed multiple websites and systems for public and private organizations. Led teams from planning to delivery.

Sep 2017 — Jun 2018

Teaching Assistant

Islamic University of Gaza

Gaza, Palestine

Assisted in teaching programming and IT courses. Supported students in labs and project development.

Jul 2017 — Dec 2019

Web Development Trainer

Al-Raed Center

Gaza, Palestine

Delivered hands-on training in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and PHP — helping trainees move from fundamentals to real projects.

05 — Academic background

Education

2022 — Present

PhD

Computer Science

Gazi University

Research focus on multilingual NLP, transformer-based hate speech detection, model evaluation, and reproducibility.

2018 — 2022

MSc

Information Technology — Data Science

Islamic University of Gaza

Thesis: "Detecting and Cleaning Arabic Hate Speech Texts Using Deep Learning Approach". Built models with RNN, CNN, and Transformers, plus a parallel corpus for clean/dirty text translation.

Supervisor: Dr. Motaz Saad

2013 — 2017

BSc

Information Technology

Islamic University of Gaza

Foundation in software engineering, databases, web technologies, and computing fundamentals.

07 — Contact

Let's work together

Open to research collaborations, ML engineering roles, and consulting opportunities. The fastest way to reach me is by email or LinkedIn.

Email me salam.th.d@gmail.com Based in Ankara, Turkey Phone +90 505 630 25 11