Nizar Habash
Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNizar Habash is a professor of computer science based in New York with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and applied NLP. He has held faculty and research roles at New York University Abu Dhabi and Columbia University, where he advanced computational linguistics and language technology. Known for both scholarly leadership and practical system-building, he directs research that often addresses Arabic language processing and multilingual challenges. His career blends rigorous research training from the University of Maryland with hands-on development and mentorship across international academic settings. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns deep linguistic insight into usable tools and datasets, making niche language technologies more accessible. He is best reached by email at nizar.habash@nyu.edu.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maryland
Github Skills (16)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
arabic9
morphological-analysis9
stemming9
sentiment-analysis8
natural-language-processing8
type-error7
nlp7
javascript6
documentation5
annotate5
language-processing5
dialect5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yxni98/EMNLP_2022
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 25 days
NYUAD-Hackathon/dalila
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
arabicdialect
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