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.

AUK × Sawa Travel — Umrah 2026

alarabinuk.com
Website 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 Bookings
Web Developer Visit site

AUK Forum CIC — Community Platform

aukforum.org
Website 2026

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 Custom Build
Web Developer Visit site

GIG — Genocide in Gaza Documentation

gigaza.org
Website 2024

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
Web Developer Visit site

Mayor Files Archive — Ministry of Local Government

Internal System 2020

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
Web Developer

Sirius for Information Technology

Web App 2021

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 Smartsheet
Project Manager

Coktilat — Charity Websites Suite

WordPress 2019

Coktilat

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

WordPress PHP MySQL ACF Custom Plugins
WP Developer & PM
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