The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in collaboration with the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) is hosting the inaugural edition of the International Workshop on Arabic Big Data and AI (IWABigDAI). The workshop provides researchers a platform to share and discuss their ongoing work related to building language resources for the Arabic language. Student and early career researchers will also have a chance to showcase their research during the poster and demo sessions.

International speakers will include: 

• Dr. Eric Atwell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language, University of Leeds, UK
• Dr. Nizar Habash, Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
• Dr. Hassan Sawaf, Founder of aiXplain, inc., Los Gatos, California, United States
• Dr. Khalid Choukri, CEO of ELDA, Paris, France
• Dr. Walid Magdy, Reader (Associate Professor) at The University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
• Dr. Kareem Darwish, Senior Scientist, aiXplain, inc, Los Gatos, California, United States
• Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, The University of British Columbia (Canada)
• Dr. Chiraz Laatiri, Professor and former minister of Culture in Tunisia, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Dr. Hend Al Khalifa, Professor, Information Technology Department, King Saud University, KSA
• Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj Lecturer in Computer Science, Lancaster University
• Dr. Karim Bouzoubaa, Full Professor, Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco)
• Dr. Hussein Natsheh, CTO - Unstructured Data Intelligence @ Beyond Limits (UAE)
•  Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, Professor, Birzeit University (Palestine)
• Dr. Hatem Haddad, Co-Founder and CTO of iCompass, Tunisia
• Dr. Azzedine Mazroui, Professor, University Mohammed I, Oujda, Morocco
• Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Cybersecurity Department, Al-Ain University, UAE
• Dr. Mourad Abbas, Assistant Secretary-General of Al-Tnall Al-Arabi, Algeria
• Dr. Nedjma Ousidhoum, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK
• Mr. Zaid Alyafeai, PhD Student
   

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