Academic Service
A summary of my recent academic service: organizing, reviewing, and program-committee work.
🛠️ Organizing
- Founder & Lead Organizer, Iqra'Eval Shared Task at ArabicNLP 2025; second iteration accepted as the IQRA 2026 Interspeech Challenge.
- Co-organizer, ArabicSpeech Meetup at Interspeech 2025.
- Program Chair, Iqra'Eval Challenge 2025.
📋 Program Committee & Reviewing
- ACL: 2024, 2025
- EMNLP: 2024, 2025
- Interspeech: 2025
- ICASSP: 2025
- EACL: 2025
- COLING: 2024, 2025
- NAACL: 2025
- ArabicNLP: 2025
- SLaTE: 2025 (PC Member)
- Workshop on Detecting AI-Generated Content at COLING 2025 (PC Member)
- Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP 2024
🎤 Invited Talks (Selected)
- 2026-05, HackAI Morocco 2026: panelist on the PhD Students panel and returning Speech ML mentor.
- 2025-12, Alexandria University: invited talk on Speech AI and Arabic pronunciation. Video on YouTube.
- 2025-10, Reality Defender: Generalizable Audio Deepfake Detection.
- 2025-10, WASPAA 2025, Tahoe City: Two Views, One Truth.
- 2024-12, SDAIA Winter School, Riyadh: Arabic Pronunciation Assessment and QuranMB.
- 2024, SDAIA Summer School, Riyadh: invited researcher in the speech and language program.
If you're interested in collaborating, or need guidance in any of these areas, feel free to reach out.