Talks and Shared Tasks
Tutorials, invited talks, shared tasks, workshops, and community presentations.
Tutorials and Invited Talks
Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs in the Wild: Building for Low-Resource Languages
Tutorial at LREC 2026, with an audience of 80+.
LLMs for Low Resource Languages in Multilingual, Multimodal and Dialectal Settings
Tutorial at EACL 2024.
Towards L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Modeling
Speech and Language Technology in Education webinar series, 2024.
Learning Pronunciation with Voice-Enabled AI
Invited talk at WISE Summit 2023.
Multilingual and Code-Switching Speech Recognition
JSALT report, SLT 2022.
Fine-Grained Interpretation of End-to-End Speech Models
Invited talk at SIGML 2021.
Fireside Chat on Bangla NLP
Bengali.AI 2021.
Shared Tasks and Workshops
SemEval MMCultureQA 2027
Shared task organizer for MMCultureQA at ACL 2027, Kyoto, Japan. Given an image and a spoken or written question, systems produce a short open-ended answer; many answers require local cultural knowledge, not just what is visible in the picture.
IQRA: Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic
Shared task organizer at INTERSPEECH 2026, Sydney, Australia.
ArabicNLP Task 6: ImageEval 2026
Shared task organizer for culturally grounded Arabic multimodal evaluation at EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary.
16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
Technical Chair, IWSDS 2026.
Second Bangla Language Processing Workshop
Organizer at AACL 2025.
Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content
Organizer at COLING 2025, with 30+ in-person participants.
First Bangla Language Processing Workshop
Organizer at EMNLP 2023, with 30+ participants attending in-person and online.
Connecting Early Career Researchers
Organizer/Event Coordinator for ISCA-PECRAC lecture and panel events at INTERSPEECH 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
SLT 2022
Local Chair for SLT 2022, hosted in Qatar and in the region for the first time, with 200 registered participants.
SLT-CODE 2022 Hackathon
Local organizer for a hackathon with 100 students and 30 mentors.
Data, Technologies, and Benchmarks for the Spoken Languages of the World
Local organizer for the meeting at SLT 2022, Qatar.
SemEval 2022 Task 3: PreTENS
Shared task organizer for Presupposed Taxonomies: Evaluating Neural-network Semantics at NAACL 2022, USA.