Academic Service

PhD Viva Examination and Defense

PhD External Examiner for:

• Dr Mona Alshehri (University of Sussex, England, UK)
• Dr Abdullah Alsaleh (University of Leeds, England, UK)
• Dr Mary Fouad (University of Sussex, England, UK)
• Dr Haviz Rizwan Iqbal, Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan
• Dr Fatimah Al-Qahtani (King's College London (KCL), England, UK)
• Dr Taghreed Tarmom (University of Leeds, England, UK)
• Dr Alaa Alqahtani (University of Birmingham, England, UK)
• Dr Chatrine Qwaider (University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden)
• Dr Mohammed Hamed Altamimi (Bangor University, Wales, UK)
• Dr Maher Itani (Sheffield Hallam University, England, UK)

PhD Internal Examiner for:

• Dr Matthew Coole (Lancaster University, England, UK)
• Dr Edward Dearden (Lancaster University, England, UK)
• Dr Lama Alsudias (Lancaster University, England, UK)

Workshops, Conferences, and Professional Service

Below is a selection of workshops, conferences, and academic service roles I have organised or contributed to.

• Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) Workshop Series [General Chair]
• Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP) Series [General Chair]
• Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL) Series [General Chair]
• Celtic Languages in the Digital Age (CLIDA) [General Chair]
• NLP Bridges Initiative [General Chair]
• LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All (LLMs4All) [General Chair]
• International Conference on NLP and AI for Cyber Security (NLPAICS) [Programme Chair]
• Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC) [Programme Chair]
• IndoNLP: Workshop on NLP for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages [Programme Chair]
• Nakba-NLP Workshop Series [Programme Chair]
• Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) [Programme Chair]
• Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop [Publication Chair]
• Readability for Low-Resourced Languages (RLRL) [General Chair]
• Area Chair for EMNLP and ArabicNLP.
• Area Chair for Information Extraction, Low-Resource Languages, and Endangered Languages at major NLP venues including ACL, LREC, COLING, and EMNLP.
• Advisory Board Member, SIGARAB, ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP
• Editorial Board, Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal
• Advisory Board, Natural Language Processing Book Series