Community

Service & Awards

Conference organization, peer reviewing, and departmental service contributing to the computational linguistics and Arabic NLP communities.

Honors & Awards

2026
Best Abstract Award — Graduate Students
Awarded at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL39), Indiana University Bloomington. Recognition for an abstract presenting collaborative research on Arabic and Multilingual Natural Language Inference (NLI).

Conference Organization

April 2026
Lead Organizer — ASAL39
39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington
Lead Organizer

Served as lead student organizer for the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL39), one of the premier annual venues for Arabic linguistics research in North America. Responsibilities spanned the full event lifecycle: budgeting, hotel negotiations, reviewer coordination, keynote speaker selection and logistics, conference website creation, and attendee communications.

The symposium featured keynote speakers Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (UBC), Dr. Nihal Nagi Sarhan (Ain Shams University), Dr. Jalal Al-Tamimi (Université Paris Cité), and Dr. Usama Soltan (Middlebury College). The event was attended by researchers from across North America, Africa, and Europe.

Budgeting Keynote Coordination Website Design Reviewer Coordination Hotel Negotiations

Peer Review Service

Contributed peer reviews for journals and conferences in computational linguistics and Arabic NLP over the past three years, mentored by Dr. Sandra Kübler.

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Journal Reviewing

Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals in computational linguistics, NLP, and Arabic language research. Evaluating manuscripts on Arabic NLP, NLI, corpus linguistics, and related areas.

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Conference Reviewing

Program committee reviewer for conferences in Arabic NLP and computational linguistics, including shared tasks and workshops at major venues (ACL, EMNLP, COLING-affiliated events).

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Community Engagement

Active participant in the Arabic NLP research community through social media outreach (2,400+ LinkedIn followers), sharing research developments, tools, and resources with the broader community.

Talks & Posters

2026
NLP @ Michigan Day — Poster Presentation
Mechanistic interpretability approach to detecting linguistic nativeness in Arabic speech transformers. Received feedback from Dr. Mona Diab and participated in AI Safety roundtables.
2026
Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) 2026 — Two Posters
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. (1) Label drift in multilingual NLI under machine translation (10-author collaboration). (2) Ontology-based knowledge graph for Alzheimer's disease research.
2026
ASAL39 — Poster Presentation & Best Abstract Award
Presented collaborative research on Arabic and Multilingual Natural Language Inference. Received the Best Abstract Award for graduate students.
2025
COLING 2025 — Workshop Presentation
Presented AMWAL: NER for Arabic Financial News at the FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal joint workshop, Abu Dhabi.
2024
EACL 2024 (SIGTYP Workshop) — Paper Presentation
The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. Presented with Damir Cavar and Louis V. Mompelat.
2023
ArabicNLP 2023 — Shared Task Submission
IUNADI: Country-level Arabic Dialect Classification in Tweets. Shared task submission and proceedings paper at ArabicNLP 2023.