# Manar Attar

> Portfolio of Manar Attar, an AI Researcher and Developer specialising in agentic architectures, RAG pipelines and fine-tuned NLP models. MSc Language & AI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

- Manar Attar is male and uses he/him pronouns.
- Manar Attar is completing an MSc in Language & AI at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — his thesis has passed and he graduates in December 2026 (expected) — and holds a BSc in Artificial Intelligence from the same university.
- Master's thesis: 'Author Profiling of Hate Speech Spreaders' — comparing zero-shot LLMs (LLaMA-3.1-8B, Qwen3-32B) against fine-tuned encoders (BERT, RoBERTa, HateBERT, CroSloEngual BERT) for predicting the age group and gender of hate speech authors. Passed July 2026.
- Key finding: the task is model-dependent — LLMs are stronger on gender prediction, fine-tuned encoders on age. Neither achieves reliable demographic inference in practice.
- Publications: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 and BNAIC 2023, both on integrating and enriching linked geo-annotated event data for Ukraine resilience.
- Works as an AI Consultant at Vervai and previously as an Innovation Consultant at Daffee.
- Languages: English (fluent), Arabic (native), Dutch (B2).

## Links

- [ARGUS — Agentic Risk Governance & Understanding System](https://argus.manarattar.com): Eight-step agentic workflow that investigates a counterparty case file, grounds every finding in a source document, runs an adversarial self-critique, verifies citations, computes an explainable rating by arithmetic, and stops at a mandatory human review gate.
- [AI Contract Risk Analyzer](https://contracts.manarattar.com): Clause-level contract risk scoring with RAG-based Q&A.
- [Multi-Agent Research Assistant](https://researcher.manarattar.com): Five-agent research pipeline with live streaming.
- [Munazara — AI Debate Engine](https://munazara.manarattar.com): AI debates both sides of a topic with sourced evidence.
- [RivalScan](https://rivals.manarattar.com): Competitor intelligence from changelogs and releases.
- [TelecomNL Voice Assistant](https://voice.manarattar.com): Voice AI customer service with Whisper and ElevenLabs.
- [SwipeEat](https://swipeat.manarattar.com): Swipe-driven restaurant ordering with an ML recommender.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/manarattar): Source code for the projects above.
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/manar-attar): Professional profile.

## Contact

- Email: manarattar77@gmail.com
- Canonical URL: https://manarattar.com/