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Sabit Hassan (Pantho)

Founder & CEO, Moonworks AI

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I am developing Sovereign AI Omnimodal AI the CAT pretraining method

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About Me

Hello! I lead Moonworks AI, where our mission is to develop cost‑efficient, locally intelligent Sovereign and Omnimodal AI models that honor human values and creativity. Our models are powered by our own CAT pretraining, helping models learn extremely fast and outpeform others in parameter class.

I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and my PhD from University of Pittsburgh. My research spans active learning for NLP, controlled generation, AI safety, and real‑world AI deployment.

I also go by Pantho — Bengali for "wanderer".

Learn more about our work at Moonworks AI or see selected publications below.

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Publications

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♦ Alikhani, M. & Hassan, S. Hype and harm: Why we must ask harder questions about AI and its alignment with human values. BROOKINGS, 2025.
♦ Hassan, S., Chung, H, Tan, X., Alikhani, M. Coherence-Driven Multimodal Safety Dialogue with Active Learning for Embodied Agents. AAMAS, 2025.
♦ Hassan, S., Sicilia, A., Alikhani, M. An Active Learning Framework for Inclusive Generation by Large Language Models. COLING 2025.
♦ Asano, Y., Hassan, S., Sharma, P., Sicilia, A., Atwell, K., Litman, D., Alikhani, M. Contextual ASR Error Handling with LLMs Augmentation for Goal-Oriented Conversational AI. COLING 2025
♦ Hassan, S., Sicilia, A., Alikhani, M. Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios. Customizable NLP @ EMNLP 2024. [Outstanding Paper]
♦ Sicilia, A., Asano, Y., Atwell, K., Cheng, Q., Gupta, D., Hassan, S. Inan, M., Nwogu, J., Sharma, P., Alikhani, M. ISABEL: An Inclusive and Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogue System. Amazon Science, 2023. [Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge Award]
♦ Hassan, S., Alikhani, M. DisCGen: A Framework for Discourse-Aware Counterspeech Generation. IJCNLP-AACL, 2023.
♦ Hassan, S., Alikhani, M. D-CALM: A Dynamic Clustering-based Active Learning Approach for Mitigating Bias. ACL FINDINGS, 2023.
♦ Wang, Y., Donovan, H.A.S., Hassan, S., Alikhani, M. MedNgage: A Dataset for Understanding Engagement in Patient-Nurse Conversations. ACL FINDINGS, 2023.
♦ Ye, M., Sikka, K., Atwell, K., Hassan, S., Divakaran, A., Alikhani, M. Multilingual Content Moderation and Challenges: A Case Study of Reddit. EACL, 2023.
♦ Mubarak, H., Hassan, S., & Chowdhury, S. A. Emojis as Anchors to Detect Arabic Offensive Language and Hate Speech. NLE, 2023.
♦ Atwell, K.*, Hassan, S.*, Alikhani, M. APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations COLING, 2022.
♦ Inan, M.*, Zhong, Y.*, Hassan, S.*, Quandt, L., Alikhani, M. Modeling Intensification for Signed Language Generation: A Computational Approach. ACL FINDINGS, 2022.
♦ Hassan, S., Shaar, S., & Darwish, K. Cross-lingual Emotion Detection. LREC, 2022.
♦ Mubarak, H., Hassan, S., Chowdhury, S. A., & Alam, F. Analyzing Arabic Tweets About COVID-19 Vaccination. LREC, 2022.
♦ Hassan, S., Mubarak, H., Abdelali, A., & Darwish, K. ASAD: Arabic Social Media Analytics and unDerstanding. EACL, 2021.
♦ Mubarak, H., Hassan, S., & Abdealali, A. Adult Content Detection on Arabic Twitter: Analysis and Experiments. WANLP, 2021.
♦ Abdelali, A., Mubarak, H., Samih, Y., Hassan, S., & Darwish, K. QADI: Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild.
WANLP, 2021.
♦ Mubarak, H., & Hassan, S. Analyzing Arabic Tweets in the Early Days of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
LOUHI, 2021.
♦ Mubarak, H., Abdelali, A., Hassan, S., & Darwish, K. Spam Detection on Arabic Twitter. SocInfo, 2020.
♦ Hassan, S., Samih, Y., Mubarak, H., & Abdelali, A. ALT at SemEval-2020 task 12: Arabic and English offensive language identification in social media. SemEval, 2020.
♦ Hassan, S., Samih, Y., Mubarak, H., Abdelali, A., Rashed, A., & Chowdhury, S. A. ALT at OSACT shared task on offensive language detection. OSACT, 2020. [1st place]
♦ Mubarak, H., Hassan, S., & Abdelali, A. Constructing a bilingual corpus of parallel tweets. BUCC, 2020.
♦ Bouamor, H., Hassan, S., & Habash, N. The MADAR Shared task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification. WANLP, 2019. [co-organizer]
♦ Anabtawi, M., Hassan, S., Kapoutsis, C., & Zakzok, M. An Oracle Hierarchy for Small One-way Finite Automata. LATA, 2018.
♦ Hassan, S., Shaar, S., Raj, B., & Razak, S. Interactive Evaluation of Classifiers Under Limited Resources.
IEEE ICMLA, 2018.
♦ Abdelali, A., Hassan, S., Mubarak, H., Darwish, K., & Samih, Y. Pre-Training BERT on Arabic Tweets: Practical Considerations. arXiv preprint arxiv:2102.10684, 2021.
♦ Hassan, S.*, Atwell, KJ.*, Alikhani, M. Studying the Effect of Moderator Biases on the Diversity of Online Discussions: A Computational Cross-linguistic Study. (CogSci 2022)
♦ Inan, M.*, Zhong, Y.*, Hassan, S.*, Quandt, L., Alikhani, M. Learning cognitive and linguistic prosodic categories for automatic cross-lingual sign language understanding. (CogSci 2022)

My Art

Once upon a time I wanted to be an artist. Coding is art too — right? right?

ashitaka and san from princess mononoke by sabit hassan
Ashitaka and San - Parting for a Bit
aurora night by sabit hassan
Aurora Night
sketch of a bicycle by sabit hassan
I want bicycles and balloons
rukia from bleach by sabit hassan
Blood Butterfly
past and present of kenshin by sabit hassan
Wandering Samurai
sketch of wolf by sabit hassan
Howl
trapped by sabit hassan
Same world, right?
cc on cart by sabit hassan
Right, Lelouch?
sketch from whisper of the heart by sabit hassan
Whisper of the heart
lonely man on mountain by sabit hassan
Snowy Hike
sketch of wolf by sabit hassan
Don't scare my son
lonely man on mountain by sabit hassan
Moonlight Hike
lelouch and cc - witch and worlock by sabit hassan
Witch and Warlock

Travel Stories

My name means wanderer. I am supposed to wander around, right?

Contact

You can contact me at sabit@moonworks.ai.

Also visit moonworks.ai to learn about our Sovereign & Omnimodal models.

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