Dr. Mourad Abbas is research director at High Council of Arabic. He taught courses in different schools and universities: signal processing, radio-engineering, operating systems. His research interests include the major issues related to natural language processing, in particular to Arabic language and its dialects. He is interested in Machine translation, Speech recognition, Language identification, Natural Language Understanding, Under-resourced Languages and more other topics. Dr. Abbas published more than sixty papers, and co-edited proceedings of conferences and workshops (ICNLSP, NSURL) in Elsevier, ACL Anthology, IEEExplore. He reviewed for many journals as: Language Resources and Evaluation, Digital Signal Processing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and conferences as ICASSP, Interspeech, Coling, NAACL-HLT, etc. He founded the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, in 2015.