Academic community

Service

Professional service and academic leadership across peer review, conference organization, shared-task leadership, research operations, mentoring, and university administration.

2017 – Presentpeer review and program-committee service
Conference + Shared TasksArabicNLP, NADI, and WojoodNER community leadership
Research operationsmentoring, infrastructure, grants, and coordination

Peer review

Reviewing and program-committee service for major NLP conferences, workshops, and journals.

2017 – Present
Reviewer · Program committees

NLP conferences, workshops, and journals

Peer review for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), ACL, EMNLP, ArabicNLP, LREC, WANLP, OSACT, and related NLP venues, as well as ACM/IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

ARRACLEMNLPArabicNLPLRECWANLPOSACTACM/IEEE TASLP

Conference organization

Organizational leadership supporting the multilingual and Arabic NLP research community.

2026
Publication Chair

ArabicNLP 2026 Conference

Serving as Publication Chair for the 2026 Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Shared-task leadership

Community benchmarks and evaluation initiatives advancing Arabic dialect, speech, and named-entity technologies.

2021 – 2025
Co-organizer

Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI)

Co-organizer across multiple editions of the NADI shared tasks, supporting benchmark design, data preparation, participant evaluation, and community coordination. Recent editions expanded from dialect identification to multidialectal Arabic speech processing.

Research leadership & operations

Mentoring, infrastructure, grant development, and collaborative research execution supporting large-scale multilingual AI projects.

2022 – Present

Graduate mentorship

Mentor graduate students and research assistants in experimental design, reproducible evaluation, academic writing, and publication.

2022 – Present

Research infrastructure

Primary liaison with UBC Advanced Research Computing and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada for GPU allocations, research-computing workflows, and technical troubleshooting.

2022 – Present

Grant development

Contribute to competitive research proposals and collaborative planning across Canadian and international partners.

UBC · Vancouver

Research operations

Support large-scale multilingual NLP and speech projects through coordination of compute, datasets, evaluation workflows, and collaborative research execution.

Academic administration

Institutional service developed alongside teaching, curriculum, accreditation, and academic planning responsibilities.

2011 – 2019
Jazan University

Academic planning & administration

Contributed to teaching schedules, curriculum development, accreditation activities, assessment design, and faculty-level academic planning.