Dr. Saad leads his CogniSAL research group in multiple NLP related areas, including NLP for low resource languages, NLP for Software Engineering and NLP for Robotics. He expertise is evidenced by his publications in top tier CORE A* conferences and high impact factor Q1 journals in NLP and software engineering domains.

Editorial Responsibility

• Associate Editor: Natural Language Processing - Cambridge Press
• Advisory Board: John Benjamins NLP Book Series

Conference Organisation

• General Chair: WACL-4 2025 (Co-located with COLING), Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Programme Chair: ABJAD 2025 (Co-located with COLING), Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Sponsorship Chair and Shared Tasks co-Chair: RANLP 2025, Varna, Bulgaria
• Sponsorship Chair: NLPAICS 2024, Lancaster, UK
• Proceedings Chair: IEEE/ACM ASE 2023, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Publicity Chair: CAISN 2024, Kenitra, Morocco
• General Co-Chair: CLIDA 2024, Lancaster, UK