{"id":37,"date":"2017-01-19T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2023-02-22T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:43:54","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"3318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/about-me\/cropped-achrafothman-sq-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"512,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1648981747&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=370%2C370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=270%2C270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=192%2C192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=180%2C180&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?resize=32%2C32&amp;ssl=1 32w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achrafothman.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-achrafothman-sq.jpg?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>IEEE Senior Member. Currently, I am the Head of ICT Accessibility Innovation and Research Section at Mada Center, Doha, Qatar. Working on research projects to enable persons with disabilities using innovative technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have more than five years of technical leadership and people management experience and three years as an international consultant and researcher in several international IT projects, in addition to 11 years as an assistant professor.<\/div>\n<p>My research topics are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural Language Processing for the Arabic Language<\/li>\n<li>Computational Sign Language<\/li>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning and Deep Learning)<\/li>\n<li>Digital and ICT Accessibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Happy to connect with you<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/achrafothman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>List of my publications<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/list-publications\/\">Full list<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.fr\/citations?user=TRCtFdMAAAAJ&amp;hl=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a> \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dblp.uni-trier.de\/pers\/hd\/o\/Othman:Achraf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DBLP<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Achraf-Othman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEEE Senior Member. Currently, I am the Head of ICT Accessibility Innovation and Research Section at Mada Center, Doha, Qatar. Working on research projects to enable persons with disabilities using innovative technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have more than five years of technical leadership and people management experience and three years as an international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"contentberg-main":false,"contentberg-main-full":false,"contentberg-slider-stylish":false,"contentberg-slider-carousel":false,"contentberg-slider-grid-b":false,"contentberg-slider-grid-b-sm":false,"contentberg-slider-bold-sm":false,"contentberg-grid":false,"contentberg-list":false,"contentberg-list-b":false,"contentberg-thumb":false,"contentberg-thumb-alt":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Achraf Othman","author_link":"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/author\/achraf-othman\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"IEEE Senior Member. 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Mohamed Koutheair Khribi, Achraf Othman, Aljazi Nasser Al Jabor, \u201cFostering ICT accessibility proficiency through Mada ICT-AID Competency Framework\u201d, 8th\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/asl-smt\/","url_meta":{"origin":37,"position":1},"title":"Statistical Machine Translation for Sign Language (ASL-SMT)","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"ASL-SML deal with machine translation to sign language. It\u00a0starts with studying existing systems and issues in order to propose a new model for statistical machine translation from written English text to American Sign Language (English\/ASL). 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