Speakers

Firoj Alam is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU. His work spans multilingual and multimodal LLMs, fact-checking, and safety. He has co-organized shared tasks such as CheckThat! (2021–2025), SemEval and WANLP tracks on persuasion in memes, and the BLP workshop series. He has served on PCs/SPCs for major venues (ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, ICWSM) and previously presented an EACL tutorial on low-resource LLMs.

Shammur Absar Chowdhury is a Scientist at QCRI, HBKU focusing on conversational AI across multilingual and dialectal settings, code-switching, and multispeaker interactions. She has led speech-centric initiatives such as QVoice and has co-organized workshops and shared tasks at IEEE SLT, JSALT, and SemEval. She regularly serves on PCs/SPCs for ACL, Interspeech, ICASSP, NAACL, and EMNLP.