PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

Theses Committees | Keynote Speeches | Invited Talks | NLP Community | Academic Service | Board Membership | Elected Positions | Academic Initiatives


    2016

  • Department of Computer Science, CLIP Lab, UMIACS, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland MD, USA, September
  • Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA, September
  • Department of Computer Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March
  • Department of Computer Science, Al Imam University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April
  • Languages & Linguistics Department, Princess Noura University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April
School of Engineering and Applied Science, King Abdullah University for Science & Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April

    2015

  • IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing Institute, New York NY, USA, May

    2013

  • Social Media Analysis Session, INFORMS Conference, October 6-9, Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 7th 2013
  • MITRE Corporation, Tyson's Corner, VA, USA, March 21st 2013.
  • Computer Science Symposium, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 11th 2013.
  • Computer Science Symposium, CLIP Lab, UMIACS, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, USA, Feb 13th 2013.
  • 2012

  • Invited Panelist on Computational lexical resources and interoperability, LREC 2012, Istanbul Turkey
  • Invited Arbiter/Referree (One of 6 Arab Expat Scientists to decide on Best Scientific Research in Qatar), Qatar Foundation, Arab Expat Society & Scientific Research Forum, Qatar, Oct' 19th -23rd, 2012.
  • 2011

  • Invited Participant (One of 50 Arab Expat Scientists to discuss and advise on future of Scientific Research Strategy in Qatar), Qatar Foundation, Arab Expat Society & Scientific Research Forum, 19 -23rd Nov '11.
  • Invited Panelist, Future of Semantics in Machine Translation, DARPA BOLT PI Kick-off Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, Oct '11.
  • King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwwal, Saudi Arabia, 13 Sep '11.
  • Mathematical & Computer Sciences School, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwwal, Saudi Arabia, 13 Sep '11.
  • Invited Participant in NSF-sponsored Workshop on Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery. Organized by Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Held in New York, NY, USA, 7-8 Oct '11.
  • Invited Participant in NSF-funded Adjectives Workshop, Organized by Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University), Held in Arlington, VA, USA, 29-30 Sep '11.
  • Invited Panelist at EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Geometrical Methods in Semantics (GEMS), Edinburgh, UK, Jul '11.
  • Distinguished Lecture Symposium Series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 30 Apr '11.
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, 21 Apr '11.
  • Invited Participant in NSF-funded SILT Workshop Interoperable Semantic Annotation. Organized by Nancy Ide (Vassar College) and James Pustejovsky, (Brandeis University), Held in Waltham, MA, USA, 11-14 Apr '11.
  • Invited Participant in QCRI Social Networks Roundtable, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar, 3-4 Apr '11.
  • Invited Participant in QCRI Arabic Language Technologies Roundtable, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar, '16-17 Jan '11.
  • 2010

  • Computer Science Department, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA, Dec '10.
  • Invited Panelist at COLING 2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2010), Beijing, China, Aug '10.
  • Invited Panelist at ACL 2010 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEMEVAL 2010), Upsala, Sweden, 17 Jul '10.
  • Invited Talk and Participant in Workshop on the Future of Arabic Language Development, organized by the UAE Crown Prince Court for Strategic Planning, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Jul '10.
  • IBM TJ Watson, Hawthorne, NY, USA, Jun '10.
  • School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwwal, Saudi Arabia, May '10.
  •  Computer Science Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Apr '10.
  • 2009

  • Invited Panelist, NAACL Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEMEVAL '09), Boulder, CO, USA, Jun '09.
  • Departmento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion, Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, May '09.
  • IRST & Computer Science Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Apr '09.
  • 2008

  • Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, Aug '08.
  • Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco, May '08.
  • Departmento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, May '08.
  • Linguistics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, Apr '08.
  • 2006

  • Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (CMIC), MSR, Smart Village, Cairo Egypt, Dec '06.
  • Computer Science Department, University of North Texas, Dallas, TX, USA, Sep '06.
  • 2005

  • Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Dec '05.
  • Computer Science Department, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Oct '05.
  • Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Mar '05.
  • Linguistics Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, Feb '05.
  • Linguistics Department, University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, USA, Feb '05.
  • Yahoo Research Labs, Overture, Pasadena, CA, USA, Jan '05.
  • 2004

  • Language Computer Corporation (LCC), Dallas, TX, USA, Dec '04.
  • Microsoft Research (MSR), Natural Language Group, Redmond, WA, USA, Dec '04.
  • Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug '04.
  • Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, May '04.
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, May '04.
  • 2003

  • Linguistics Dept. & Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, Nov '03.
  • 2002

  • Laboratoire Perception, Systèmes, Information (PSI), Université de Rouen, Rouen, France, Nov '02.
  • NLP Lab, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, Nov '02.




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