Oumaima Hourrane

Oumaima Hourrane is an Assistant 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 Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco. Her doctoral thesis was runner-up for the Kambule Doctoral Award at the Deep Learning Indaba in 2023. Her research interests include multilingual natural language processing, the fair and rigorous evaluation of language models across languages, and what models’ internal representations reveal about their multilingual behavior.

Her work focuses on Arabic, Moroccan Arabic and other low-resource African languages. She has contributed to community-built multilingual datasets published at Association for Computational Linguistics conferences.

She collaborates with researchers across the globe. She teaches artificial neural networks and object-oriented programming, and brings questions of responsible and socially beneficial artificial intelligence into her courses. She also supervises graduate and undergraduate research in natural language processing.