Teaching & Supervision

Teaching

Courses, student supervision, mentoring, and selected academic experience.

Courses

I am currently an Assistant Professor at King Saud University, College of Computer and Information Sciences.

Human Language Technologies – NLP: IT469 [Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024].
Database Principles – DB: IT222 [Fall 2021, Spring 2022].

Supervision

Undergraduate project, Fall 2024: Cultural aspects alignment, further details TBA.
Master project, Ghady Yahia, Spring 2023: Counter hate speech, preprint (link).
Reliability assessment: evaluating reliability of toxicity detection models using human-in-the-loop feedback.
Undergraduate project, Spring/Fall 2022: GP2, Toxicity Inspector: Multilingual toxic comments mitigation through feedback.
Master project, Summayah AlMasood, Fall 2022: Examining Domain Adaptation Techniques in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Drug Reviews (Co-supervisor).

Supervision and mentoring

If your scientific inquiries coincide with the areas of research within my scope, I would be pleased to discuss further. You can reach me via email at aabeer@ksu.edu.sa.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Aug 2021–Present.
Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, SMASH Group, working on rumours veracity, a project with the Big IR group, Jul 2020–Dec 2020.
Demonstrator, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, INFR11145: Text Technologies for Data Science, Sep 2018–Dec 2020.
Research Assistant, KSU, IWAN Group, working on readability assessment, Nov 2014–Aug 2017.
Lecturer, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Nov 2013–May 2018.