Grants
Principal Investigator, Context Management for Mobile Systems, Funded by King Saud University Research Center, 2013 - 2014
Principal Investigator, The Web of Learning, Funded by King Saud University Research Center, 2013 - 2014
Principal Investigator, AKHBARI (MyNews): Intelligent User-Centered Arabic Summarizer for Daily News, Funded by the ICT fund – UAE, 2008 – 2010
Member, Secure Autonomous Agents for Location-Based Mobile Services, Funded by the ICT fund – UAE, 2008 – 2010
Member, An Open Source Arabic Spelling Checker, Funded by Sharjah University Research Council, UAE, 2007 – 2009
Member, SHAMS – Sharjah Arabic Machine Translation System, Funded by Sharjah University Research Council, 2005 – 2007
Member, Business to Business Electronic Commerce, Funded by UAE University Research Council, 2002 – 2003
Principal Investigator, Term Detection for Arabic Information Extraction, Funded by UAE University Research Council, January 2002 – August 2002
Member, Multimedia Based Distance Learning System, Funded by UAE University Research Council, 2002 – 2003
Principal Investigator, Natural Language Architecture for Unrestricted Texts, Funded by UAE University Research Council, January 2001 – December 2001
Principal Investigator, Arabic Morphological Analyzer, Funded by UAE University Research Council, January 2000 – December 2000
Member, ExtrAns: A System for Extracting Answers from Texts, Funded by the Swiss National Research Fund, December 1996 - August 1998
Member, SERAPHIN: A System for Summarising Tests Based on Semantic Criteria, Funded by CNRS: National Scientific Research Council, France, March 1994 – March 1996
Member, Reasoning about time in Natural Language, Funded by CNRS National Scientific Research Council, France, September 1991 – August 1993
Awards
Awarded the Best Faculty Member Award, Information Systems Department, King Saud University, June 2017.
Awarded the First Prize in the Mobile Application Contest for the project, for the project Mobile Tourist Advisor, Dubai, May 2009.
Awarded the Third Prize in the Software trade show forum at University of Wollongong in Dubai, for the project Mobile Tourist Advisor, Dubai, April 2009.
Awarded the second Prize in the Mobile Application Contest for the project Context-Aware Muslim Companion, Dubai, May 2008.
Awarded the second Prize in the IEEE student day for the project Context-Aware Framework for Mobile Learning, in the category: Software Engineering Project, Sharjah, May 2007.
Awarded the third prize in the National Mobile Application Contest for the project Context-Aware Framework for Mobile Learning, Dubai, May 2007.
Awarded the first Poster Award at IT Innovations’07 conference, Context-Aware Framework for Mobile Learning . 4th International IEEE conference on IT Innovations, Dubai, November 2007.