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.

Enamul Hoque Prince (York University) is an Associate Professor, and Director of the Intelligent Visualization Lab. His research brings together information visualization, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction to make data exploration more accessible, inclusive, and responsible. His recent work focuses on multimodal large language models and agentic frameworks for data visualization leading to widely used benchmarks and models. He serves the community as an Area Chair for the ACL Rolling Review and on the IEEE VIS program committee.