Research & Services

RESEARCH INTEREST

My research interests span various NLP topics, including:

• Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for Multilingual NLP

• Dialogue systems and conversational AI 

• Human-centric NLP

• Text and Image Generation

• Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

• Fairness and Trustworthiness of NLP

• NLP Applications: Education, Finance, Health, and Creative Industry

• Parsing and Analysis of Syntax and Discourse

RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2025-2026: Teaching Innovation Grant | AED 21,273 | A Human-AI Collaborative Framework in Graduate Education | Chief Investigator.

• 2025-2027: The Dubai RDI Grant | AED 1,350,000 | Cultural Alignment of LLM | Chief Investigator with M. Alsmairat, H, Alkhazaleh, M. Nasar.

• 2024-2025: Google Cloud Credit | USD 5,000 | Text Generation Evaluation | Chief Investigator.

• 2024-2025: MBZUAI research grant | AED 10,500 | Cultural Knowledge Graph | Chief Investigator.

• 2023-2024: SEAMEO-Australia Education Links Award | AUD 10,000 | AI-powered Assessment for Rural Areas | Chief Investigator with N. Aisyah.

• 2023-2026: MBZUAI-Weizmann | USD 900,000 | Brain Science and Neural Network | Co-Investigator with Dr. A. Shelmanov, Prof T. Baldwin, Prof M. Tsodyks.

SERVICES

• 2025

  • Area Chair (Action Editor) of ACL ARR

  • Area Chair of COLING, *SEM

  • Session Chair of COLING

  • Secretary of SIGSEA (the ACL Special Interest Group on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)

  • Invited journal reviewer: Computational Linguistics

  • PhD Candidacy Exam committee of (1) Sara Ghaboura (MBZUAI)

  • MSc Thesis Examiner of (1) Anastasiia Demidova (MBZUAI), (2) Fathinah Asma Izzati (MBZUAI)

• 2024

  • Program committee of EACL, NAACL, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL-SRW, W-NUT, CMCL, ALTA, SEALP

  • Invited journal reviewer: Neurocomputing; Artificial Intelligence In Medicine; Neural Network; Natural Language Processing Journal; Artificial Intelligence

  • PhD Candidacy Exam committee of (1) Dmitry Demidov (MBZUAI), (2) Wafa Hamad Mohamed Alghallabi (MBZUAI)

• 2023

  • Program committee of EACL, ACL, AACL, EMNLP, NLPCC, ACL-SRW, AACL-SRW, PRICAI, ALTA

  • Invited journal reviewer: AI Open; Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing;  Nature Human Behaviour 

  • Mentor of ACL-SRW

• 2022

  • Session Chair: EMNLP (Language and Resource / virtual)

  • Program committee of ICLR, ACL (ARR), NAACL (ARR), EMNLP, NAACL-SRW, LREC, ALTA, NLPCC, ICONIP, ICAICTA, W-NUT

  • Mentor of ACL-SRW

• 2021

  • Program committee of ACL, EMNLP, ALTA, ICONIP

• 2019

  • Secondary reviewer of NAACL

• 2017

  • Invited journal reviewer: Knowledge-Based System Elsevier