R&D Laboratory

Pushing the frontier
from Manama.

Array's research lab works on problems most regional firms outsource to headquarters elsewhere. Our scientists publish, peer-review, present at the top global venues, and ship the work into our products. Every paper we publish is a capability our clients inherit.

4
Principal scientists
7+
Top-tier venues
12+
Universities partnered
Research team

The scientists pushing
the frontier.

A multidisciplinary group spanning multimodal AI, verifiable architectures, responsible ML and quantitative modelling — publishing and shipping in equal measure.

Dr. Ali N. Salman
Dr. Ali N. Salman
Principal AI Researcher
PhD, UT Dallas. Multimodal AI, audio reasoning and privacy-preserving facial-expression systems. Presented Array's work at NeurIPS & ASRU 2025.
NeurIPS '25ASRU '25Multimodal
Dr. Sabbir Rahman
Dr. Sabbir Rahman
Principal Scientist
Multidisciplinary researcher in AI, physical modelling and verifiable AGI architectures. Lead author on Array's hypergraph-reasoning work for structured cognition.
AGI ArchitectureMaterials AIHypergraph
Dr. Reem Al Hayki
Dr. Reem Al Hayki
Senior Research Scientist
Applied ML for banking and the public sector. Lead on Array's responsible-AI framework, including bias evaluation harnesses for credit and KYC models.
Responsible AIBanking MLBias Eval
Dr. Magzhan Kiranbay
Dr. Magzhan Kiranbay
Research Scientist
Deep learning for time-series and quantitative modelling. Bridges Array's R&D lab with the quant desk on signal-discovery research.
Time-SeriesQuant MLForecasting
Presented / Published at NeurIPS ICML ASRU Interspeech IEEE Big Data AAAI Workshops arXiv
White papers

Work we published,
then put into production.

Peer-reviewed papers, technical reports and pre-prints from the Array lab. Each one underpins a capability our clients now run live.

NeurIPS 2025 · Main track

Privacy-Preserving Facial Expression Recognition via Federated Multimodal Distillation

Salman, A. N. et al. Dec 2025
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arXiv pre-print

Hypergraph Reasoning for Verifiable Structured Cognition in Large Models

Rahman, S. et al. Oct 2025
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IEEE Big Data 2025

Bias Evaluation Harnesses for Credit and KYC Models under Regulatory Constraint

Al Hayki, R. et al. Sep 2025
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ASRU 2025

Listwise Preference Learning for Low-Latency Audio Reasoning

Salman, A. N.; Kiranbay, M. Aug 2025
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Technical report

Signal Discovery in High-Frequency Transaction Tape: A Time-Series Foundation Approach

Kiranbay, M. et al. Jun 2025
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Global event contributions

Array on the
world's top stages.

Our researchers don't just attend — they're invited to present, keynote and sit on panels at the venues that set the agenda for the field.

Event contribution Hover or tap a pin for details
DEC 2025

APCOM AI Symposium

Dr. Reem Al Hayki presented “Neural Network Based Constitutive Model for Porous Solid Materials.”

Sydney, Australia
Paper
NOV 2025

Gateway Gulf 2025

Founder Alaa Saeed on how AI and infrastructure will reshape global workforce dynamics.

Manama, Bahrain
Keynote
OCT 2025

GITEX Global 2025

The team showcased Array's solutions at the Bahrain Pavilion.

Dubai, UAE
Exhibitor
OCT 2025

Bahrain Fintech Forward 2025

Array on the floor at Bahrain's flagship fintech gathering.

Manama, Bahrain
Attended
AUG 2025

Interspeech 2025

Dr. Ali N. Salman presented two papers — emotion recognition in real-world audio, and pediatric speech recognition via synthetic data.

Rotterdam, Netherlands
2 Papers
FEB 2025

VISAPP 2025

Dr. Magzhan Kiranbay presented “Onboarding Customers in Car Sharing Systems: Implementation of Know Your Customer Solutions.”

Porto, Portugal
Paper
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on research?

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