Welcome to RiTUAL Research Group

Exploring the frontiers of knowledge in NLP

Meet the Team

About Us

We are a multidisciplinary research group based in Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) focused on advancing the state of the art in NLP. Our team combines expertise from various domains to tackle complex scientific challenges and publish high‑impact research.

Research Areas

Visual Question Answering

Building evaluation benchmarks and systems for culturally diverse visual question‑answering tasks.

Multilingual & Code‑Switched NLP

Developing NLP technology to support tasks involving multilingual and code‑switched data.

Multimodal Models

Designing models that fuse information from multiple modalities for richer content understanding.

Low‑Resource & Socially‑Aware NLP

Advancing NLP methods for low‑resource settings and incorporating social intelligence into AI systems.