Asmaa Mourhir
School - School of Science and Engineering Employment Status - Full-Time Office - Office 006, Building 7 Office hours - Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8:30-10AM, 4-7PM Office extension - (+212) 535-862-144Dr. Asmae Mourhir is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fès, Morocco. With a career spanning over two decades, Dr. Mourhir gained industry experience as a software engineer and project manager before transitioning into full-time academia and research at Al Akhawayn University.
Her research interests encompass Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing, with applications in smart urban water management, waste detection, and dialectal language technologies. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers. As the lead of a pioneering initiative in Darija NLP, she leads research investigating low-resource language modeling techniques, including speech recognition and offensive language detection, tailored to the Moroccan dialect.
She teaches courses in Artificial Intelligence, Production Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Programming and Architecture.