Professional Activities

Fellowship: Honorary Fellow at the School of Informatics. University of Edinburgh.
Member of the academic promotion committee: to the rank of

Full Professor, University of Leeds, UK, 2014.
Full Professor, University of Bahrain, Bahrain, 2014.
Associate Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2014.
Full Professor, University of Salford, Salford, UK, 2012.
Full Professor, Mutah University, Karak, Jordan, 2012.
Full Professor,Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, 2011.
Associate Professor, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, 2007.

Member of the tenure committee member: to the rank of
- Associate Professor, New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014.

Invited Internationalexpert: Invited expert for the International Expert Group Meeting on “Cyber Network for Learning Languages”, organized by UNESCO and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, 26-27 March, 2009, Beijing, China. I was member in all sessions of this meeting and also a moderator for Session 3 “Options and Feasibility of a Cyber Network.” The meeting gathered 20 experts from all regions of the world working in the filed of Computer Assisted Language Learning. The objectives of the meeting were to (i) share knowledge and experiences on national, regional and international developments in this area, including existing initiatives and online platforms, (ii) define a common vision for the “Cyber Network for Learning Languages”, and (iii) prepare the plan for future action. The meeting ended up with a proposal and recommendations for the “Cyber Network for Learning Languages” which will be discussed by UNESCO for approval.
External Examiner for the Bachelor & Associate Degree program in Information Technology, Al Khawarizmi International College (KIC), Abu Dhabi & AlAin, UAE. The responsibilities include: a moderation of final exam moderation, course folder audit, course review meeting, staff development, and students meeting.
Reviewing and refereeing:
- “Qatar National Research Fund” (QNRF), Qatar, National Priorities Research Program. Reviewer for QNRF projects for: the Arab ExpatriateScientists-Fast Track Launch Projects (AES-FTLP), Undergraduate ResearchExperience Program (UREP) projects, National Priorities ResearchProgram (NPRP), and and Young ScientistsResearch Experience Program (YSREP).
- “Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)”, UK, project for Grant Academic scheme.
- Research Proposal, “Deanship of Scientific Research”, Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia.
- “Research Enhancement Fund (Research and Creative Project Awards, and Pathway Awards)”, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE.
- ITAC (Information Technology Academic Collaboration) program projects, Egypt. Projects for promoting Industry/Universities collaboration through linking academic research with industry and market needs. For more information see Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).
- “Rashid bin Hamid Award for Culture and Science”, Umm Al Moumineen Association, Ajman, UAE. Projects that aims to achieve genuine scientific research, Information Technology.
Editorship:
- Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), TALIP Vol 8, Issue 4, December 2009.
- Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Arabic Language Processing for the International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies (IJICT), Serial Publications, June 2010.
Judgement: member of the Judging Panel of
- Poster session, The 28th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-28), May 18 – 20, 2015, Hollywood, Florida, USA
- Think Science Competition, 19-22 April 2014, Emirates Foundation for Youth Development, Dubai, UAE.
- 3^rd Software Development Trade Show, 22/4/09, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), UAE.
Conferences organized:
- Conference Founder and Co-chair, 1st International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistic (ACLing 2015), Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, April 14-20, 2015.
- Program Committee Chair,The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011),December 18-20, 2011, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United ArabEmirates.
- Initiated and organized a special track on Natural Language Processing in The 6^th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS2008), 27-29 March 2008, Cairo, Egypt.
Symposium organized: I co-organized the International Health Informatics Symposium, May 5^th 2010, The British University in Dubai, UAE.
Conference and workshop committees: I served on the program committee of various conferences and workshops mostly for those that are specialized in Arabic natural language processing.

KhaLed Shaalan

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