German-African Innovation Incentive PRIZE, 2020, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
"AfricaSign: A crowd-sourcing Platform for the Documentation of African Sign Languages."
https://www.kooperation-international.de/en/news/detail/info/excellent-german-african-innovation-projects-have-started/
2. USA National Academies of Sciences Research Award - Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER CYCLE 1, 2012).
Project: Assistive technology for improving literacy among the deaf and hard of hearing
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/PEER/PGA_069374
4. Literacy Innovation Award (USAID, Australian Aid and World Vision (2015)
5. First Prize Winner in the IT and Computing session at Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (Doha, November 24-25, 2013). Standard Arabic to-Moroccan Sign language Machine Translation
6.. USA National Academies of Sciences Research Award - Partnership for Ehanced Engagement in Research (PEER CYCLE 3, 2014).
Project: Tools and resources to improve deaf educational access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
https://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/peer/PGA_152065
7. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Fellow (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2019) to undertake research at several German universities.
8. Fulbright Research Scholar to undertake research at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute (Pittsburgh, USA, 1998-2000).
9. Ambassador Scientist of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010-2016).
10. (co-) Chair of several Conferences and Workshops, including:
- Co-chair of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference's workshop “Human Language Technologies and NLP within the Arab World". (2008).
- Chair of the Alexander von Humboldt-sponsored conference «Human Language Technology in Africa: Status and perspectives» (Rabat, Morocco, 2008).
11. Award of Excellence from Franklin College (Switzerland, 2008)
12. Advisory Board Member of the Arab German Young Academy of Humanities and Sciences.