Hamdy Mubarak Hussien is a Principal Software Engineer at the Qatar Computing Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University.  He joined QCRI in 2014 and has participated in building state-of-the-art tools for processing the standard, classical, and dialectal varieties of Arabic (farasa.qcri.org), QATS Speech Transcription and Translation (qats.qcri.org and st.qcri.org), IYAS Question Answering, and Fake News Detection (tanbih.org) projects in addition to leading the efforts in analyzing social media texts (asad.qcri.org). He works on different aspects of the Arabic LLM, Fanar.

Before joining Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamdy Mubarak was the Arabic NLP R&D manager at Sakhr Software from 1994 to 2013 working on morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of Arabic and building commercial NLP applications for governments. He has published 120+ papers in top-tier conferences on computational linguistics, speech, and social computing.