A second Palestinian professor has made it to MIT Technology Review Arabia’s first edition of “30 Leading Arab Experts in AI” list for 2022.
Nizar Habash, a computer science professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and the director of the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab, was included in MIT Technology Review Arabia recently-released “30 Leading Arab Experts in AI” list for 2022.
Habash’s area of research is artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing and computational linguistics. He primarily works on Arabic and Arabic dialect language processing (in terms of orthography, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicons and corpora), machine translation and dialogue systems.
He joins Mustafa Jarrar, a computer science professor teaching at Birzeit University, who also made it to the list.
The 30 Arab AI experts inscribed on the list are renowned for being leading experts in the field of AI through their public, private, or academic sector positions in various regional and global organizations and institutions. The winners are credited for playing a key role in increasing the adoption of AI technologies, creating AI start-ups, or driving research in the field. Their contributions cover various disciplines including natural language processing, robotics, artificial vision, machine learning, internet of things, big data, chat-bots, and more.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)