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Dr. Hamdy Mubarak Hussien
Principal Software Engineer
Dr. Hamdy Mubarak Hussien
Principal Software Engineer
Educational Qualifications
BSc in Computer Science
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Divison
Arabic Language Technologies
Biography
Hamdy Mubarak Hussien is a Principal Software Engineer at the Qatar Computing Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He joined QCRI in 2014 and has participated in building state-of-the-art tools for processing the standard, classical, and dialectal varieties of Arabic (farasa.qcri.org), QATS Speech Transcription and Translation (qats.qcri.org and st.qcri.org), IYAS Question Answering, and Fake News Detection (tanbih.org) projects in addition to leading the efforts in analyzing social media texts (asad.qcri.org). He works on different aspects of the Arabic LLM, Fanar.
Before joining Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamdy Mubarak was the Arabic NLP R&D manager at Sakhr Software from 1994 to 2013 working on morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of Arabic and building commercial NLP applications for governments. He has published 120+ papers in top-tier conferences on computational linguistics, speech, and social computing.
BSc in Computer Science
Alexandria University, Egypt
1992
- Arabic natural language processing
- Social media analysis
- AI for social good
- LLMs
Principal Software Engineer
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2014 - Present
Arabic R&D Manager
Arabic Language, Sakhr Software, Egypt
2003 - 2013
Software Manager
Digital Communication, Ellipsis Digital Systems, United States
2001 - 2003
Senior Project Manager
Arabic Language, Sakhr Software, Egypt
1994 - 2001
Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar
- Best of Gitex, 1996, Best Arabic Diacritizer.
- Best of Gitex, 1999, Best Arabic Spell and Grammar Checker.
- NIST09 Open Machine Translation A2E Human Assessment (1st Rank), Ottawa, Canada.
- Best Innovation Award (QATS), Annual Research Conference 2018, Qatar Foundation
- King Salman Global Academy Award for Best Arabic NLP Institute (Saudi Arabia, 2023)