Congratulations to Amneh Al Abdi for successfully defending her PhD thesis proposal titled “An Agent-Based Framework for Enhancing Large Language Models’ Understanding of Natural Language Instructions”.

Congratulations to Danah Aldossary for successfully defending her research proposal about Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for requirements engineering.

Over the past months, we have been developing TEMO (Therapeutic Emotional LLM-powered Robot), designed to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

TEMO aims to make communication easier, more engaging, and emotionally supportive for children who often find traditional interaction challenging. It acts as a child-friendly assistant that is fine-tuned on an Applied Behavior Analysis dataset. With animated facial expressions, child-friendly dialogue, proactive speech, and a customized profile for each child, TEMO helps children practice communication skills, express emotions more comfortably, and feel safe, motivated, and understood.

Congratulations to Dr. Saad Ezzini for being appointed as an associate editor of the Cambridge Press Journal of Natural Language Processing.

Congratulations to Hind Alatawi for Successfully Defending her PhD Proposal about cross Arabic dialect translation.