Samhaa R. El-Beltagy (Newgiza University)

Samhaa R. El-Beltagy is a Professor of Computer Science and the Dean of the School of Information Technology at Newgiza University. She’s also an NLP R&D consultant for Optomatica (a company dedicated to the development of AI solutions to real-life complex problems), as well as a co-founder of AIM Technologies (an NLP start-up), and a member of the technical board for the National Council for AI in Egypt. Prof. El-Beltagy’s primary research area is in Arabic NLP, but her research interests include AI and NLP at large.