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Chehir Dhaouadi

Chehir Dhaouadi

CTO and co‑founder building AI voice and Arabic NLP products

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined April 2026
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Technical founder and CTO focused on voice AI and legacy telephony integrations — architects core voice AI infrastructure and deep integrations with on‑prem PBX/CUCM/SIP environments to deploy AI voice agents for contact centers. ycombinator+1
Leader in Arabic NLP and LLM efforts — co‑leads research and dataset work (including the 101 Billion Arabic Words Dataset) aimed at improving Arabic language models and NLP products. arxiv+1
Serial entrepreneur in the MENA startup ecosystem — co‑founder of Clusterlab and Reedz, building products that apply NLP and AI to Arabic content and education; participated in fundraising and accelerator/innovation programs. wamda+2
Publishes and contributes to open ML/AI projects — maintains models and contributions on Hugging Face and holds an ORCID researcher profile tying technical outputs to scholarly records. huggingface+1

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101 Billion Arabic Words Dataset

April 1, 2024

Paper describing the creation of a 101 billion‑word Arabic dataset extracted from Common Crawl WET files, including cleaning and deduplication techniques to enable more authentic Arabic LLMs.

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Enjoys reading; described as a book lover in press coverage. yourstory+1