Where: Bldg 12, University Library, Sea View
Description
Traditional Arabic poems are the only source of pre-Islamic history in the Arab World, making them works of great importance. These poems also continued to play a major role in recording events after the creation of Islam. All this was possible due to their musical structure making them easy to memorize. In this lecture we explore the structure of traditional Arabic and present an algorithm for scanning lines of Arabic poem and classify it into one of 16 classes introduced by Al-Khalil bin Ahmad (an Arabic mathematician and musician) in the 8th century. This event is part of our Brown Bag Lecture Series. A light lunch will be provided.
Abdulhakim Qahtan
Abdulhakim Qahtan is an assistant professor at the Data Intensive Systems (DIS) Group, Information and Computing Sciences Department. Before joining Utrecht University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar (2016-2019).
Dr. Qahtan earned his PhD degree from the Machine Intelligence & kNowledge Engineering (MINE) Lab at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (2016). He completed his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Cairo University, Egypt and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, respectively. He worked as a teaching assistant at Taiz University, Yemen and a lecturer at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.
His current research focuses on data cleaning, data stream mining, time series analysis, algorithmic fairness and explainable machine learning.
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