- Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification, Invited Talk, Doha Data Forum, Oct 2023.
- Research Issues You MUST Know! Invited Talk, Graduate Seminar at the Environmental Sciences Department, Qatar University, Sep 2023.
- 10 Years of Research at QU: 10 Lessons Learned. Invited Talk. Sharing Experience Day, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Sep 2023.
- Scientific Publishing and Unethical Practices, Invited Talk, the “Academic Integrity and Challenges of Scientific Publishing” symposium hosted online by Birzeit University, July 2023.
- bigIR: Research, Resources, and Where to Go from There!, Invited Talk, Birzeit University, Palestine, Feb 2023.
- Qur’an QA 2022 Shared Task Overview, OSACT 2022 Workshop, May 2022.
- FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media, Invited Talk, International Workshop on Arabic Big Data and AI (IWABigDAI), May 2022.
- Arabic AI and Toxic Online Content Detection, Panel Moderator, International Workshop on Arabic Big Data and AI (IWABigDAI), May 2022.
- FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media. Webinar, ROS, QNRF, Apr 2022.
- What it means to be a PhD Student Workshop, Invited Talk, Birzeit University, Palestine, Mar 2022.
- What it means to be a PhD Student Workshop. Webinar, Online, Mar 2022.
- Introduction to AI. Invited Talk, National Olympiad for Creativity in Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Feb 2022.
- Introduction to AI. Invited Talk, Opening Ceremony of AI Organization at QU, QU, Oct 2021.
- Information Retrieval (in Arabic), 10 Lectures, Intensive Open Online Course, June 2021.
- Arabic Information Retrieval: Tasks, Resources, and Challenges, Webinar, Arabic Artificial Intelligence Summit (AAIS) 2021, April 2021.
- AI 101. Webinar, AI week at QU Computing Club, QU, Feb 2021.
- FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media. Webinar, AI ROS, QNRF, Nov 2020.
- What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, CIS-HBKU, Sep 2020.
- FakeDet: Research on Fake News Detection at Qatar University. Webinar, AI Symposium, CSE, QU, Sep 2020.
- CheckThat! 2020: Enabling the Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. Webinar, CLEF 2020, Sep 2020.
- What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, Egypt Scholars, July 2020.
- Panel of “The Future of AI Economy in MENA”. Phi Research and Innovation Summit (PRIS’20), July 2020.
- What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, Phi Research and Innovation Summit (PRIS’20), July 2020.
- ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks. Webinar, Apr 2020.
- FakeDet: Research on Fake News Detection at Qatar University, Keynote talk at “Bias, Misinformation, and Propaganda” Workshop, SocInfo 2019, Nov 2019.
- What it means to be a PhD Student – Part II: Quality, Skills, and Support, “What it means to be a PhD Student” Workshop, Qatar University, Nov 2019.
- What it means to be a PhD Student – Part I: Objectives, Mentality, and Quality, “What it means to be a PhD Student” Workshop, Qatar University, Nov 2019.
- Research Issues You MUST Know! QU CSE Seminar, Mar 2019.
- Machine Learning 101 – Part II: Getting a bit “Deep”er! Workshop at QU-IEEE Student Branch, Qatar University, Feb 2019.
- Machine Learning 101 – Part I: Hello “Machine Learning”. Workshop at QU-IEEE Student Branch, Qatar University, Feb 2019.
- Low-Cost Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. Invited Talk at Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Nov 2018.
- When Rank Order isn’t Enough: New Statistical-Significance-Aware Correlation Measures. CIKM 2018, Turin, Italy, Oct 2018.
- Supporting Arabic IR in the Era of Big Data: Resources, Tasks, and Venues. Invited Talk at HBKU, Qatar, Apr 2018.
- Supporting Arabic IR in the Era of Big Data: Resources, Tasks, and Venues. QU CSE Seminar, Mar 2018.
- MapReduce 101. Invited Talk in “CMPT 523 Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing” graduate class, QU, Oct 2017.
- How to Give a Good (Research) Talk. QU CSE Seminar, May 2017.
- Big Data Analytics. Invited Talk at “Special Topics in Data Science” graduate course, Qatar University, April 2017.
- Lightweight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization. TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2016.
- Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization. TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2016.
- Research Issues You MUST Know, Guest lecture, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Oct 2016.
- What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter?, The Social Media in the Newsroom Workshop (SMNews’16), International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2016.
- bigIR: When Big Data meets Information Retrieval, Big Data Management workshop organized at QU. Apr 2016.
- MapReduce 101, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 523 Distributed Systems” graduate class, QU, Mar 2016.
- Detecting Automatically-Generated Arabic Tweets, AIRS 2015, Dec 2015.
- Researcher 101: Issues You Would Like to Know, QU CSE Seminar, Feb 2015.
- QU @ TREC-2014: Online Clustering for Tweet Timeline Generation, TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2014.
- Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 571 Advanced Algorithms” graduate class, QU CSE Seminar, Oct 2014.
- Research Issues You Must Know, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
- How to Read a Research Paper, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
- Research? A Gentle Introduction, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
- MapReduce 101, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 507 Advanced Operating Systems” graduate class, QU, May 2014.
- Researcher 101: Issues You Would Like to Know, QU CSE Seminar, April 2014.
- IR in a Nutshell: Applications, Research, and Challenges, QU CSE Seminar, February 2014.
- TREC-2013: QU Taking the “Fast Lane” to IR Research, QU CSE Seminar, Oct 2013.
- LaTeX: Writing Professional Scientific Documents, OFID EduTech Day 2013, QU, June 2013.
- How to Read a Research Paper, QU CSE Seminar, May 2013.
- IR in a Nutshell: Applications, Research, and Challenges, QU CSE Seminar, February 2013.
- On Large-Scale Retrieval Tasks with Ivory and MapReduce, QU CSE Seminar, November 2012.
- On Large-Scale Retrieval with Ivory, Microsoft Research at Cambridge, October 2011.
- Scalable Identity Resolution in Email Collections with MapReduce. Division Seminar, CMSE Division, KAUST, November 2010.
- Scalable Identity Resolution in Email Collections Using MapReduce. Guest Lecture in “Data-Intensive Information Processing Applications” Class, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 2010.
- Identity Resolution in Email Collections, CLIP Lab Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, February 2009.
- No, Not That PMI: Creating Search Technology for E-Discovery. Joint talk with Jason Baron, Douglas W. Oard, and Lidan Wang. iSchool Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 2008.
- Computing Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections: A MapReduce Perspective, Guest Lecture in “Introduction to Cloud Computing” Class, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 2008.
- Resolving Personal Names in Email using Context Expansion, ACL Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
- Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collection with MapReduce, ACL Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
- Using MapReduce for Scalable Coreference Resolution, HLT COE at JHU, Baltimore, MD, June 2008.
- Ivory, “Scaling Up Language Technologies” Mini-workshop, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2008.
- The Enron and W3C Collections, ICAIL DESI Workshop, Stanford, CA, June 2007.
- Modeling Identity in Archival Collections of Email: A Preliminary Study, CEAS Conference, Mountain View, CA, July 2006.
