Hassan Hamad

Hassan Hamad

AI Researcher @ AWS

I'm an AI researcher at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working on agentic AI and large language models. I work on post-training — RLHF, reward modeling — and figuring out how to evaluate LLMs in ways that actually reflect real-world usefulness. I also work on LLM environments: how to design diverse, realistic environments that let agents learn and improve through richer interactions.

Previously, I completed my PhD at USC on training efficiency in deep learning, and worked on synthetic data for NLP tasks like named entity recognition and relation extraction.

Latest News

Dec 2025 🚀 AWS Security Agent launched in preview — proud to be part of the team that built it! Learn more →
Nov 2025 📝 New blog post: Speculative Decoding: Fast LLM Inference Without Quality Loss Check here →
Oct 2025 📄 New arXiv pre-print on Neural Network Training with Log Number Format Read paper →
Oct 2025 📄 New arXiv pre-print on Correcting LLM Tool Call Mistakes Read paper →
Sep 2025 📝 New blog post: Forward vs Reverse KL Divergence: Why the Direction Matters Check here →
Jan 2025 🚀 Joined AWS Agentic AI as an AI Researcher!
Nov 2024 🎓 Successfully defended my PhD thesis at USC!
Jun 2024 📄 FIRE dataset paper published at NAACL 2024 Read paper →

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