Iraqi NLP and AI-security researcher; first author of Mizan, the first national LLM benchmark for Iraqi Arabic
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works · OpenAlex
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h-index · OpenAlex
Bibliometric figures come from OpenAlex (2026-10-15) and cover the author's entire public record, not just the papers listed here. Reproducibility signal comes from Evolve's own reviews.
Research profile
Output—
A publication-output score has not been computed: the snapshot lacks a complete verified publication list, so aggregate output cannot be quantified responsibly. This axis would measure total works, per-year output, and authorship roles across venues.
Impact—
An impact score is not yet available: citation-level detail on this OpenAlex record is too sparse to score. This axis would measure citation counts, citing works, and follow-on influence; the recorded h-index of 4 rests on too small a base.
Focus0/100
Topical concentration scores 0: the recorded field distribution splits evenly, 0.5 natural language processing and 0.5 cybersecurity, and OpenAlex topics span natural language processing techniques, authorship attribution and profiling, language and cultural analysis, building energy and comfort optimization, and online and blended learning. Work is therefore spread across several loosely connected areas rather than a single core line.
Collaboration28/100
The collaboration score of 28 reflects a compact network: three distinct co-authors against five works in the last three years. Mustafa S. Aljumaily and Hayder Kareem Abed recur as frequent collaborators. Both reviewed 2026 preprints are team papers in which Alseelawi holds edge positions — first author on the Mizan benchmark and last author on the cyber-defense paper — though neither lists him as corresponding author.
Activity52/100
Activity scores 52 on a moderately active but uneven record. OpenAlex counts five works in the last three years, with year counts of three in 2020, one each in 2022 and 2023, and five in 2026 — a burst that coincides with both reviewed arXiv preprints. No entries are recorded for 2021, 2024, or 2025, so output clusters rather than accumulates steadily.
Reproducibility78/100
Reproducibility scores 78, a mean over two Evolve-reviewed papers. The Mizan benchmark is rated high readiness — consistent with a benchmark release meant to be rerun — while the AI-augmented cyber-defense paper is rated medium, matching Evolve's caution that its interior-optimum claim is assumed rather than empirically validated. This is the profile's strongest computed axis.
Research summary
Nawar S. Alseelawi is a researcher at the University of Misan in Iraq whose recorded output spans two fast-moving areas: natural language processing for Arabic dialects and AI-augmented cybersecurity. The Evolve-reviewed record centers on two 2026 arXiv preprints. Mizan (first author) is described as the first national benchmark for evaluating large language models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi civic context; Evolve credits its rigorous 340-item dual-track design and a notable over-refusal finding, while cautioning that half the axes lack results and counts conflict. The second paper (last author) makes the case for responsible, AI-augmented cyber defense through a probabilistic model of defense-in-depth layers with human triage; Evolve judges the mathematics sound but treats the interior-optimum claim as assumed rather than empirically validated. OpenAlex records an h-index and i10-index of 4, five works over the last three years, three distinct co-authors, and a field distribution split evenly between NLP and cybersecurity; earlier topic traces include authorship attribution and profiling, language and cultural analysis, and building energy optimization. Evolve rates reproducibility at a mean of 78 across the two reviewed papers — high for Mizan, medium for the cyber-defense work. Resolved from public bibliographic data under ORCID 0000-0001-5739-2349, this is an early-stage, small-sample profile.
Collaboration pattern
Collaboration is compact and consistent: the OpenAlex record lists three distinct co-authors across five recent works, and Evolve's co-author data repeatedly surfaces Mustafa S. Aljumaily and Hayder Kareem Abed. Both reviewed 2026 preprints are multi-author efforts with Alseelawi at an edge position — first author on the Mizan benchmark, last author on the cyber-defense paper — but neither marks him as corresponding author, suggesting senior collaborators may steer correspondence for now.
Research keywords
Highlights
First national LLM benchmark for Iraqi Arabic
Over-refusal finding for dialectal Arabic users
Probabilistic model of AI-augmented cyber defense
Timeline
- 2020OpenAlex records 3 works for 2020 — the earliest activity in the current snapshot.
- 2022A single work is recorded for 2022 in the OpenAlex year counts.
- 2023A single work is recorded for 2023 in the OpenAlex year counts.
- 2026Five works appear in 2026, including both Evolve-reviewed arXiv preprints: the Mizan Iraqi-Arabic benchmark (first author) and the AI-augmented cyber-defense paper (last author).
Papers in the Evolve catalog
Frequent co-authors
About this profile
This profile is AI-structured by Evolve.Pub from public bibliographic data (OpenAlex) and Evolve's own paper reviews. It is not written or endorsed by the researcher unless the profile is claimed. Radar dimensions are computed from real bibliometrics with fixed formulas — raw figures are shown alongside; missing dimensions mean insufficient data, never zero. Errors? Claim the profile to correct or hide it.
- Bibliometric figures come from an OpenAlex author record only; they are not cross-verified against other databases.
- Output and impact dimensions are not scored: complete publication and citation-level data are insufficient.
- Identity is name-resolved from public bibliographic data tied to ORCID 0000-0001-5739-2349; homonym risk cannot be fully excluded.
- Only two 2026 preprints have been reviewed by Evolve; other recorded works (2020-2023) are not part of the reviewed catalog.