Ahmed Masry

I am a PhD student at York University. I completed my M.Sc. (Thesis-based) in Computer Science from York University where I was working as a research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Enamul Hoque. in collaboration with Prof. Shafiq Joty, who is currently a research director at Salesforce AI Research. My research focused on multimodal charts understanding tasks, such as answering questions about charts, summarizing charts, and extracting data from charts. Our research work has been accepted in several prestigious conferences such as ACL 2022, CVPR 2021, EuroVis 2022, EMNLP 2023, AAAI 2024, and ACL 2024. Moreover, our work has gained considerable attention; our ChartQA benchmark has been featured as a key multimodal evaluation benchmark by OpenAI’s GPT-4 official blog post and Google’s Gemini paper in evaluating their models visual reasoning capabilities. My google scholar has over 435 citations with an h-index of 6. Our chart understanding models have been downloaded over **40,000 **times from Hugging Face, with a monthly average of 5,000 downloads!