Recognition
Formal awards, international recognition, and selected external research features highlighting contributions to multilingual AI, Arabic NLP, African language technology, and speech.
Awards & Honors
Best Resource Paper recognition for PALM, a community-driven Arabic dataset designed to improve cultural and dialectal coverage for large language models across the Arab world.
Afrocentric-NLP was recognized among the global Top 100 Outstanding AI Projects for work advancing language technologies for African languages.
Best Paper Award for TURJUMAN, an open toolkit for neural Arabic machine translation.
Recognized for a toolkit supporting automated verification and integrity checking of Qur'anic text.
Featured Recognition & Media
Selected public-facing coverage and industry features that highlight the reach and practical relevance of my multilingual AI research.
Industry-facing feature connected to my research collaboration with AMD and multilingual AI work at UBC.
Watch video ↗Public research feature highlighting work on African language AI, evaluation, and speech technology.
Read article ↗