🧑‍🔬 Merouane Debbah

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2021–2026 · 375 papersEmploymentcurrent🔬CentraleSupélecGif-sur-Yvette · France2006–2026 · 208 paperscurrent🎓Université Paris-SaclayGif-sur-Yvette · France2012–2026 · 147 paperscurrent🔬Technology Innovation InstituteAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2021–2026 · 105 papersEmployment 2021–2023 · Chief Researcher, AI and Digital Science Research Centercurrent🔬Laboratoire des signaux et systèmesGif-sur-Yvette · France2010–2026 · 36 paperscurrent🎓University of OuluOulu · Finland2017–2026 · 6 paperscurrent🎓Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBarcelona · Spain2025–2026 · 4 paperscurrent🎓University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu · China2024–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou · China2024–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore2023–2026 · 2 paperscurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 72 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The Falcon Series of Open Language Models (2023 · 443 citations)
   The paper documents how the Technology Innovation Institute pretrained Falcon, a family of open causal decoder-only language models with 7B, 40B and 180B parameters.
2. A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model (2022 · 30 citations)
   Papers on large language models usually report only the electricity used for the final training runs. This one asks what the whole project costs in carbon. The case study is Noor, a joint effort by TII (UAE) and LightOn (France) to build Arabic generative models larger than AraGPT. The suite has four models (1.5B…

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. The Falcon Series of Open Language ModelsarXiv:2311.16867Ebtesam Almazrouei, Hamza Alobeidli, Abdulaziz Alshamsi, et al.2023 · 443 citations
2. A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language ModelBigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language ModelsImad Lakim, Ebtesam Almazrouei, Ibrahim Abualhaol, et al.2022 · 30 citations
3. OTel: Open Telco AI Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetFarbod Tavakkoli et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Ebtesam Almazrouei ×2
• Julien Launay ×2
• Badreddine Noune
• Daniele Mazzotta
• Étienne Goffinet
• Hamza Alobeidli
• Quentin Malartic
• Ruxandra Cojocaru

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models: BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models 2022

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 342 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 65 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 1 November 2026

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