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Mohamed Aghzal

Ph.D. Student
George Mason University
maghzal (at) gmu (dot) edu


About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at George Mason University, where I have the fortune of being advised by Dr. Ziyu Yao.

My research is at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Robotics. More specifically, my work revolves around leveraging techniques from NLP and neural semantic parsing to assist robotic systems with path and motion planning.

Research Interests

News

[March 2024] Paper accepted to LLM Agents at ICLR 2024.
[October 2023] New preprint available on ArXiv.
[April 2023] Presented a poster at MASC-SLL 2023.

Publications

  1. LLMAgents@ICLR
    Can Large Language Models be Good Path Planners? A Benchmark and Investigation on Spatial-temporal Reasoning
    Mohamed Aghzal, Erion Plaku, Ziyu Yao
    ICLR Workshop on LLM Agents, 2024
  2. MASC-SLL 2023
    English to Linear Temporal Logic Translation using Neural Language Models [Poster]
    Mohamed Aghzal, Ziyu Yao, Erion Plaku
    The 10th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023)
  3. CiST
    Compact Transformer-based Language Models for the Moroccan Darija
    Mohamed Aghzal, Mohamed Amine El Bouni, Saad Driouech and Asmaa Mourhir
    7th IEEE Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt)
  4. ACLing 2021
    Distributional Word Representations for Code-Mixed Text in Moroccan Darija
    Mohamed Aghzal, Asmaa Mourhir
    5th Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing2021)
  5. ICDS 2020
    Early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease based on handwritten patterns using deep learning
    Mohamed Aghzal, Asmaa Mourhir
    2020 IEEE Fourth International Conference On Intelligent Computing in Data Sciences (ICDS 2020)


    Experience

    01/2023 - : Graduate Research Assistant at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
    08/2022 - : Graduate Teaching Assistant at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
    09/2021 - 08/2022: Adjunct Faculty Member at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
    06/2021 - 08/2021: Research Intern at Attijariwafa Bank, Casablanca, Morocco
    06/2020 - 08/2022: Research Assistant at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

    Teaching

    CS 310 - Data Structures: Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023)
    CS 262 - Introduction to Low Level Programming: Lab Instructor (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
    CSC 3326 L - Database Systems: Instructor (Fall 2021)
    CSC 1401 L - Computer Programming: Instructor (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022)
    CSC 2303 - Object-Oriented Programming: Group Tutor (Fall 2019, Spring 2021)
    CSC 4399 - Deep Learning: Teaching Assistant (Fall 2018, Fall 2020)
    CSC 2302 - Data Structures: Grader (Spring 2019)
    CSC 1400 - Introduction to Computers: Grader (Spring 2019)
    CSC 1401 - Computer Programming: Grader (Fall 2018)
    CSC 2303 - Object-Oriented Programming: Grader (Fall 2018)

    Services

    Reviewer: IEEE CiST 2023
    Secondary Reviewer:     NeurIPS 2023

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