Abdellah EL MEKKI, Ph.D.
Natural Language Processing and Multilingual AI Researcher
I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC), working on inclusive large language models adapted to specific languages and cultures across modalities (text, audio, images), including low‑resource and under‑represented languages. I have 10+ peer‑reviewed publications in venues such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco) and previously completed a postdoctoral year at MBZUAI (UAE). Beyond my research, I have served as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review, as a reviewer for leading AI/ML venues and journals including NeurIPS, and as an organizer of workshops and shared tasks at top-tier AI conferences.
Availability: Open to collaborations and consulting.
Research Areas
- Multilingual and cross-lingual NLP
- Multicultural NLP
- Low-resource and under-represented languages
- Large Language Models and instruction tuning
- Sequence labeling (NER, POS), morphology, and syntax
- Dialect identification and language variety modeling
- Domain adaptation and transfer learning
Awards
- Best Resource Paper, ACL 2025
- Area Chair Award (Machine Translation and Multilingualism), IJCNLP-AACL 2023 (official announcement)
