Abdullah Abdulaziz Albanyan

I am an assistant professor and the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of North Texas. My research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and, in particular, sentiment analysis and opinion mining on social media platforms.

Latest Achievements

10/2023: Our paper titled “Finding Authentic Counterhate Arguments: A Case Study with Public Figures” got accepted to the main conference EMNLP 2023.
10/2023: Assigned as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University.
07/2023: Invited to serve as a Program Committee Member for AAAI 2024.
06/2023: Invited to be a reviewer for EMNLP 2023.
06/2023: Promoted to Assistant Professor at the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University.
05/2023: Our paper titled “Not All Counterhate Tweets Elicit the Same Replies: A Fine-Grained Analysis” has been accepted at *SEM 2023, co-located with ACL 2023.
05/2023: Participate in the Virtual Graduation Ceremony honoring PhD recipients, Spring 2023
03/2023: I passed the Dissertation Defense.
02/2023: Invited to serve as a reviewer for ACL 2023.
08/2022: Invited to become a Program Committee Member for AAAI 2023.
04/2022: I passed the Dissertation Proposal Defense.
12/2021: I passed the Qualifying Exam.
12/2021: Our paper on analyzing hateful tweets and replies has been accepted at AAAI 2022.

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas (2019 - 2023)
Dissertation title: Deep Learning Methods to Investigate Online Hate Speech and Counterhate Replies to Mitigate Hateful Content
Research area: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
M.Sc., Software Engineering, Southern Methodist University (2012 - 2014)
B.Sc., Information Systems, King Saud University (2004 - 2009)

Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (2023 – present)
Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (2023 – present)
Lecturer in the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (2014 – 2023)
Demonstrator in the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (2010 – 2014)
Demonstrator in the College of Computing and Information Science at King Saud University (2009 – 2010)
Trainee at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) (2008)