Umar Faruk Abdullahi

AI - Robotics - SWE

I'm interested in how autonomous systems can reason and act reliably under uncertainty.

Machine Learning Engineer @Huawei R&D. MSc Intelligent Systems (CV & Robotics) at @EDISS (Erasmus Mundus Scholar). Previously, built Adpay at @Mercurie NG.

Check out my writings here, or on Substack for more spiritual and theological topics. Feel free to reach out for anything!

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Mar 2026

Our paper "Beyond Suffixes: Token Position in GCG Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models" was accepted at the ICLR ICBINB 2026 Workshop.

Nov 2025

Graduated from the EDISS master's program. My thesis on Adaptive Bathymetric Planning can be found here.

Feb 2024

Presented ongoing work on Parkinson's detection & biomarker discovery at the EDISS Winter School in Västerås.

Oct 2023

Won the Nokia Challenge Hackathon for network bandwidth optimization with NetworkAsCode.

Aug 2023

Began the EDISS joint master's (Finland & Spain) on an Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

Nov 2021

Ran a workshop on digital skills for recent university graduates in Abuja.

Beyond Suffixes: Token Position in GCG Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models

Eddoubi, H., Abdullahi, U. F., Hassan, F.

ICLR 2026 ICBINB Workshop, accepted · arXiv:2602.03265
Hybrid MCTS–CEM for Adaptive Bathymetric Planning

Abdullahi, U. F.

M.Sc. Thesis, 2025 · National Library of Finland · Doria Archives