SICLI 2024 Speakers
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Member of the UAE Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, the Emirate of Sharjah
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Chairperson of the Board of Trustees and President of the American University of Sharjah
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Chairman of the Consultative Council of Sharjah, Chancellor of Emirates Scholar Center
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Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence & Digital Economy
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Minister of Culture of Jordan
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Minister of Culture, Egypt
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Chancellor of American University of Sharjah (AUS)
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Emirates Scholar Center President Vice Chancellor
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Academic Advisor Executive Office of Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi
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Executive Director of Watani Al Emarat Foundation of UAE
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Director General of Emirates Scholar Research Center
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The CEO and Chairman of the Advisory Council Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation
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Executive Director of the Fujairah Culture and Media Authority
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Director Of Engineering at Google
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Professor of Linguistics and NLP courses in Africa, Asia, and the United States
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Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
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Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Durham University, and Head of Machine Le
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Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language at University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Digital Humanities within the Middle Eastern Studies department of the Colleg
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Education and Technology Sciences Attaché of The United Arab Emirates in Cairo and non-resident in
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Dean College of Arts and Sciences
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Dean College of Engineering – AUS
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Associate Dean College of Arts and Sciences
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Technical Committee Chair, Associate Professor of Linguistics at AUS
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Chair of the Research Outreach Department, Sharjah University
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Technical Committee member, Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at AUS
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Technical Committee member, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at AUS
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Organizing Committee Chair, Interim Head of the Department of English at AUS
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Committee Chair
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Technical Committee, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering at AUS
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Professor at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University
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Professor and Director of the ICT Department at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific
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Past Chair at UNESCO’s Information for All Programme.
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founder and CEO of aiXplain
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, American University of Beirut (AUB)