My PhD student Marwa has gotten a full paper accepted at ECIR 2025 (23% acceptance rate this year!). The paper […]

I was honored to complete teaching the “Deep Learning” course for this semester to undergraduate students at Qatar University and […]

For a long time, I thought that the most important moment in my academic career was the moment I got […]

سعدت وتشرفت خلال اليومين الماضيين بحضور المؤتمر السنوي الثالث لـ مجمع الملك سلمان العالمي للغة العربية بالرياض (حوسبة اللغة العربية […]

حين تتلقى دعوة “بتوقيت القدس” (وفي زمن الطوفان) لا تملك إلا وأن تلبي النداء! من دواعي فخري وسروري واعتزازي أن […]

I was honored to be invited to give a short 10-minute speech at the closing ceremony of the Graduate Research […]

الحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات There is no bigger pleasure in academia than graduating a new PhD student! I’m […]

I’m really honored by receiving the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” from such a prestigious conference, ECIR 2024!And I’m more honored to […]

We got a full paper accepted at SIGIR 2024, the TOP and most prestigious conference in the field! The paper […]

My student Fatima Haouari has published her second PhD journal titled “Are authorities denying or supporting? Detecting stance of authorities […]

I have given an invited talk titled “Research Issues You MUST Know!” as a Graduate Seminar at the Environmental Sciences […]

I have given an invited talk titled “10 Years of Research at QU: 10 Lessons Learned” at the Sharing Experience […]

I have given a short lecture titled “Scientific Publishing and Unethical Practices” through my participation as a keynote speaker in […]

الحمد لله كثيرا على فضله ونعمه … I’m honored to receive the “Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research” from the […]

My student Watheq Mansour has published his journal article titled “This is Not New! Spotting Previously-Verified Claims over Twitter” at […]

I’m very pleased and proud that my PhD student Reem Suwaileh has successfully passed her dissertation defense yesterday without modifications — congratulations […]

Qatar University (QU) is seeking applications for a postdoctoral researcher position for the development of a new automated Arabic essay […]

My student Fatima Haouari has published her first PhD journal titled “Who can verify this? Finding authorities for rumor verification […]

Tahaqqaq, our real-time system for assisting Twitter users in Arabic claim verification has just been accepted at SIGIR 2023, the […]

A new journal article led by my PhD student Reem Suwaileh has been published at Information Processing & Management (IP&M) […]

Our team has represented Qatar University in AlJazeera’s “AI in Media” conference held today. We presented our “Tahaqqaq” application, which […]

My PhD student Marwa Essam has published her first journal article titled “Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news […]

Authority Finding in Arabic Twitter is a new and exciting shared task organized by my PhD student Fatima Haouari along […]

My student Rana Malhas has become my 2nd-ever graduated PhD after distinctly defending her PhD dissertation titled “Arabic Question Answering […]

Congratulations to my student Zien Sheikh Ali for successfully defending her MSc thesis with no modifications. Great job! The thesis […]

A new short paper is accepted at The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023). The paper is led […]

I’m pleased to announce that my full paper titled “Catch Me If You Can: Deceiving Stance Detection and Geotagging Models […]

لا أجمل أبدا ولا أجل ولا أنفع من عمل يخدم كتاب الله ولو بكلمة! أنعم الله علي وطلبتي (بفريق bigIR) […]

My PhD student Reem Suwaileh just got her first 1st-author journal article accepted! “When a Disaster Happens, We Are Ready: […]

الحمد لله أن أكرمني بالأمس بإتمام تدريس مادة “تعلم الآلة” (Machine Learning) لهذا الفصل الدراسي بجامعة قطر ورفع وإتاحة كل […]

الحمد لله حمدا كثيرا على نعمه وفضله I’m very pleased (and excited!) to announce that I just got a new […]

حين تتلقى دعوة “بتوقيت القدس” لابد أن تلبي النداء! سعدت بتقديم ورشة “ماذا يعني أن تكون طالب دكتوراة؟” لطلبة الدكتوراة […]

استمتعت كثيرا بلقائي أمس مع عدد من الشباب والباحثين العرب المهتمين بالدكتوراة من خلال ورشة عمل “ماذا يعني أن تكون […]

بإذن الله تعالي سأقدم ورشة عمل عبر الإنترنت مفتوحة للجميع *باللغة العربية* بعنوان “ماذا يعني أن تكون طالب دكتوراة؟” لمن […]

Are you looking for a nice research problem to work on for your project or thesis? Are you interested in […]

I’m teaching undergrad Machine Learning course this semester & will make all lectures (3/week) available on YouTube over time (إن […]

I’m very pleased to see my PhD student Fatima Haouari  passing her candidacy exam and ready to continue her well-planned […]

I’m very pleased to see my co-supervised student Watheq Mansour defending his MSc thesis titled “Did I see it Before? […]

I’m Proud of my MSc student Watheq Mansour who got his first *first-author* full paper titled “Did I see it […]

I’m honored and proud to receive a “Best Reviewer Award” at the prestigious CIKM 2021, which should also definitely go […]

I’m honored and excited to give a short “What’s AI?” talk at the opening ceremony of the new “exciting” AI […]

It took my PhD student Maram Hasanain about 2 years of perseverance to eventually become a JASIST ‘s first author! […]

 (Information Retrieval) بحمد لله وفضله وهداه أتممت (وفريق العمل) تدريس دورة استرجاع المعلومات المكثفة باللغة العربية (للمرة الأولى) والتي استغرقت […]

My senior students whom I supervised has achieved the second place among the best CS Senior Project for the academic […]

I enjoyed a lot my participation in a QU podcast about “AI and the Future of Humans” with my colleagues […]

I’m really happy (and proud!) that three of my PhD students, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, and Reem Suwaileh, have won […]

سعدت للغاية بأن أتيحت لي الفرصة لتقديم نبذة سريعة باللغة العربية (لأول مرة!) عن مجال تخصصي بالقمة العربية للذكاء الاصطناعي […]

I’m VERY PROUD of my PhD student Marwa Essam who got the “Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award” for her PhD […]

I gave an open “AI 101” talk today at QU Computing Club, covering: – Where is AI? – What can […]

I’m teaching Big Data Analytics graduate course this semester and will make all lecture videos available on YouTube over time […]

I’m teaching Information Retrieval graduate course this semester and will make all lecture videos available on YouTube over time here.

Happy to announce that my PhD student Marwa Essam is now a PhD candidate! She successfully defended her PhD proposal […]

Pleased to see the first full paper of my PhD student Reem Suwaileh, titled “Are We Ready for this Disaster? […]

Our article titled “Annotator Rationales for Labeling Tasks in Crowdsourcing” is finally published at “Journal of AI Research” (JAIR), with […]

Gave my “What it means to be a PhD Student …” workshop at HBKU, hosted by college of Islamic Studies! […]

I’m teaching “Artificial Intelligence” undergraduate course this semester and will make all lecture videos available on YouTube over time here.

Gave my “What it means to be a PhD student” workshop in Arabic hosted at Egypt Scholars Platform! This is […]

The paper of my PhD student Marwa Essam titled “Why is That a Background Article? A Qualitative Analysis of Relevance […]

Our full paper titled “Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey” has just been accepted […]

Honored to contribute in making Qatar University listed among top 150 institutes in Information Retrieval area and top 400 institutes in Computer […]

I have given, in Arabic, a workshop titled “What it means to be a PhD Student” at Phi Research and […]

Our ongoing NPRP project “Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media” (FakeDet) is featured in QNRF newsletter “Research […]

I gave a webinar (the first ever I give online!) about our newly introduced COVID-19 Twitter Arabic dataset called “ArCOV-19”. The […]

Our newly-curated dataset, ArCOV-19 has just been released here and associated ArXiv paper is online here. ArCOV-19 is an Arabic […]

The website of my research group bigIR is finally up and running! Check out our mission, activities, publications, and achievements! […]

I’m recording my Data Science lectures and making them available on YouTube as a first-time experience. All lectures will be […]

My student Reem Suwaileh has just passed her PhD candidacy exam and became a PhD Candidate! Examined by Dr. Ingmar […]

My MSc student Sara Al-Rasbi has just passed her thesis MSc defense **without modifications** — one of few cases to […]

I gave a keynote talk at “Bias & Misinformation” workshop at SocInfo 2019 that is held in Doha. The talk […]

The work of my PhD student Marwa Essam, who participated for the first time in TREC 2019, has been ranked […]

I have given a new workshop titled “What it means to be a PhD Student” targeting current and prospective PhD […]

Fatima Haouari, a member of our research group, has just been awarded GSRA grant from QNRF to financially support her […]

I have given a talk titled “Research Issues You MUST Know!” to QU students (as a seminar in the series […]

I gave a short “Machine Learning 101” workshop to the female students of the Electrical Engineering department at QU. I […]

A twitter account for our research group bigIR has just been online! The account will share our group’s news and […]

It has just been announced that my submitted NPRP proposal titled “Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media” […]

الحمد لله كما ينبغي لجلال وجهه وعظيم سلطانه! I have just been promoted to Associate Professor rank at our department! […]

Reem Suwaileh, a member of our research group, has just been awarded GSRA grant from QNRF to financially support her […]

Our group has two papers just accepted at CIKM 2018! A full paper with Mucahid, Maram, and Matt (17% acceptance […]

Our full paper titled “Mix and Match: Collaborative Expert-Crowd Judging for Building Test Collections Accurately and Affordably” led by Mucahid Kutlu […]

My student Reem Suwaileh has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “On the Relevance Filtering for Real-time Summarization” and got […]

Received the Excellence in Services award from Computer Science and Engineering Dept. at Qatar University for the academic year 2017/2018.

Our full paper titled “What can Rationales behind Relevance Judgments Tell Us about Assessor Disagreement?” led by our group members […]

Our full paper titled “Your Behavior Signals Your Reliability: Modeling Crowd Behavioral Traces to Ensure Quality Relevance Annotations” led by […]

With about 20 attendees, BroDyn’18 workshop “the 1st International Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media” was […]

Our full paper titled “LA3: A Scalable Linkand LocalityAware Linear AlgebraBased Graph Analytics System” has been accepted at VLDB 2018! […]

Our IRJ journal article “EveTAR: building a large-scale multi-task test collection over Arabic tweets” has been published online here. Download […]

A paper has been accepted at LREC 2018, titled “DART: A Large Dataset of Dialectal Arabic Tweets” with my senior […]

Our journal article titled “EveTAR: Building a Large-Scale Multi-Task Test Collection over Arabic Tweets” has been finally accepted for publication […]

Our proposed workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) was accepted at LREC 2018. The workshop is co-organized […]

Our proposed workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media (BroDyn) was accepted at ECIR 2018. The workshop […]

Our journal article titled “Intelligent Topic Selection for Low-Cost Information Retrieval Evaluation: A New Perspective on Deep vs. Shallow Judging” […]

Our lab proposal titled “Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Political Debates” has been accepted at CLEF 2018. The […]

Our journal article titled “Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search” has been finally accepted for publication at Information Processing and Management (IP&M) […]

I have been elected as the coordinator of the Data Science research group at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept […]

My Ph.D student Maram Hasanain has been selected as SIGIR Student Liaison (for the Middle East region) among only 6 students worldwide. […]

I have given a “How to Give a (Research) Talk” talk at the CSE dept seminar series today at QU. […]

I’m proud to be the first to teach a “Data Science” course in Qatar this Fall at Qatar University! Starting […]

Reem Suwaileh (my MSc student) and Maram Hasanain (my PhD student) won the first and the first-repeated places in the poster […]

Our historic 1st rank at TREC 2016 was featured heavily in the local news today! Articles were written in Gulf […]

I have contributed an article that is featured in the first issue of CSE newsletter about our team’s success story […]

My perspective PhD student Maram Hasanain has been selected among 10 students from all over the world to represent ACM […]

A demo paper has been accepted at ECIR 2017, titled “QweetFinder: Real-time Finding and Filtering of Question Tweets” with Ameer Albahem […]

Our HComp 2016 best paper award has been featured in a news release: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/professor-lease-wins-hcomp-2016-best-paper-award  

I have been invited to join the editorial board of Elsevier Information Processing & Management Journal (IF = 1.397), one […]

I have given the QU talk of real-time summarization track at TREC today. You can find the slides here.

I have given the QU talk of LiveQA track at TREC today. You can find the slides here.

Our bigIR (representing QU) team has been ranked first at TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) 2016 international research competition in the […]

Our paper titled “Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments” has been awarded “Best Paper Award” at […]

We have been “selected” by the organizers to present our work at TREC-2016 Real-time Summarization track!

I have given a talk titled “Research Issues You MUST know!” at “Cybersecurity Policy, Management and IT ethics” graduate course […]

I was appointed as a manager (along with Dr. Noora Fetais) of the newly-added “Data Science” research focus area at […]

Due to our “high performance” in TREC-2016 LiveQA track, we have been “invited” by the organizers to present our work […]

Our full paper titled “Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments” co-authored with Tyler Mcdonnell and Matt Lease (University […]

Our test collection for Arabic event detection in Twitter has just been released. Please check it out here!

I have given a talk at Social Media in the Newsroom (SMNews) workshop held at ICWSM’16 conference in Cologne, Germany, […]

Hind Almerekhi, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. EveTAR: A New Test Collection for Event Detection in Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of […]

Reem Suwaileh (MSc student) and Maram Hasanain (PhD student) have been selected to get SIGIR travel grant to support their […]

I gave a talk titled “bigIR: When Big Data meets Information Retrieval” at “Big Data Management” workshop organized at QU.

Our group got 2 short papers accepted at ACM SIGIR conference (the top conference in our IR field) this year for […]

We got a full paper titled “What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter?” accepted at the Social Media in the […]

My MSc student, Hind Almerekhi, has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in […]

Our short paper “On the Evaluation of Tweet Timeline Generation Task” (with Walid Magdy (QCRI) and Maram Hasanain) has been accepted at ECIR 2016!

Gave a talk at AIRS 2015 at Brisbane, Australia on our accepted paper “Detecting Automatically-Generated Arabic Tweets”.

Got “Best Paper Award” at AIRS 2015 for the paper titled “Improving Tweet Timeline Generation by Predicting Optimal Retrieval Depth” co-authored with my […]

My journal article jointly authored with Walid Magdy and titled “Unsupervised Adaptive Microblog Filtering for Broad Dynamic Topics” has finally been accepted […]

QU team is ranked 2nd at TREC’15 microblog track, real-time filtering task (scenario A) among 14 participating international teams!! The team includes […]

My proposed “Big Data Analytics” PhD course has been approved and is offered in Fall 2015. It’s the first ever […]

Mucahid Kutlu has joined my research team as a PostDoc.

My MSc student, Latifa Al-Marri, has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Utilizing Hashtags for Microblog Adhoc Retrieval“. Her thesis […]