Zena Al-Khalili

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I’m a PhD student in the Saarbrucken Graduate School of Computer Science and the department of Language Science and Techonlogy advised by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow. I’m also an associate member at the Research Training Group focusing on Neuroexplicit models. My research interest focuses on studying and improving reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models especially in the post-training phase.

Previously, I have obtained a master degree in Language Science and Technology from Saarland university, and a bachelor degree in Information Technology Engineering from Damascus University.

You can reach me in person at Saarland University, Saarbrücken campus 66123, Building C7.1, office 0.14. Feel free to reach out, always happy to chat about research : ))

news

Mar 31, 2026 Preprint alert: Fork-Think with Confidence. We propose a new inference-time scaling algorithm that leverages low-confidence tokens as branching points to guide LLMs reasoning.
Sep 1, 2025 Happy to share that our paper PricingLogic: Evaluating LLMs Reasoning on Complex Tourism Pricing Tasks got accepted @ EMNLP 2025
Jul 31, 2025 I attneded ACL 2025 in Vienna to present our work in the GEM workshop.
Jun 10, 2025 Our paper Evaluating Intermediate Reasoning of Code-assisted LLMs for Mathematics has been accepted to GEM workshop @ ACL 2025