12 Aug. 2026
Invited talk + poster session
Speaking · Panels · Media
Talks & Media
I speak about multilingual and low-resource AI, Arabic and African language technology, LLMs, speech, evaluation, and the path from research to real-world AI systems.
5invited talks & panels
4conference & poster presentations
2selected public research features
Speaking profile
My public engagement focuses on how multilingual AI can become more capable, inclusive, and useful for communities that are still underrepresented in current language and speech technologies. I bring together research, datasets, evaluation, infrastructure, and applied deployment experience.
Multilingual & Low-Resource AIArabic AI & DialectsAfrican Language TechnologyLLMs & Foundation ModelsSpeech & ASRBenchmarks & EvaluationResearch → Real-World AI
Invited talks & panels
Selected invited presentations, expert panels, and invited poster sessions on multilingual AI, Arabic language technology, African AI, and speech.
14 Jan. 2026
Expert panel
Arabic Speech Evaluation
19 Nov. 2025
Panel
The Evolution of AI in Africa, From Recognition to Generation: Building the Continent's Digital Future
23 Jun. 2025
Expert panel
Arabic Resources Workshop
9 Aug. 2012
Invited talk
How to Use RDI Arabic NLP on Islamic Books (Qur'an, Hadith, etc.)
Conference & poster presentations
Research presentations associated with published work, community events, and scientific meetings across Arabic NLP, machine translation, dialogue systems, and multilingual AI.
25 Sep. 2025
Poster session
Building with Africa: AfroCentric AI
20 Jun. 2022
Conference presentation
TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation
9 May 2018
Conference presentation
Improving Dialogue Act Classification for Spontaneous Arabic Speech and Instant Messages at Utterance Level
8 May 2018
Media & public coverage
Selected videos and public-facing coverage highlighting the practical reach of my multilingual AI and speech research.
AMD · Video
AI for people: Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning at The University of British Columbia
Industry-facing feature connected to my research collaboration with AMD and multilingual AI work at UBC.
Watch video ↗CLEAR Global · Research feature
Lessons from advancing African language AI and insights on data scaling for African Automatic Speech Recognition
Public research feature on African language AI, evaluation, speech technology, and the challenges of scaling data for ASR.
Read article ↗Speaking & media
Invitations, panels, and research conversations
I welcome invitations related to multilingual AI, Arabic and African language technology, LLMs, speech, low-resource AI, research leadership, and the translation of AI research into real-world systems.