Prof. Dr. Hend S. Al-Khalifa is a full Professor with the Information Technology Department, King Saud University and the head of iWAN research group. She is also an inventor, entrepreneur and a prolific researcher with an H-index of 39 and a publication record of over 200 research papers in workshops, international conferences and high-impact ISI journals. Hend has been a principal investigator and co-investigator on over 12 research grants. She also served as a member of the Editorial Board of journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Q1 journal) (from 2012 -2022) and a program committee member of many national and international NLP conferences including NAACL-HLT, EMNLP, WANLP, ACLing, and OSACT. Prof. Al-Khalifa's research interests include Arabic NLP, Semantic Web, HCI and computers for people with special needs.
