RHU’s assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences – Languages and Liberal Arts Unit, Dr. Maysaa Banat, was selected as one of only 141 participants from across the MENA region and internationally to take part in the Middle East and North Africa Machine Learning (MenaML) Winter School 2026, hosted at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from January 24 to 29. She received full sponsorship to attend the prestigious program and presented her research poster titled “Unmasking the Voice of GPT-4o: A Stylometric Study of Arabic→English Translation,” which explores the linguistic fingerprint of AI language models in translation contexts.
Dr. Banat attended a six-day winter school intensive program featuring advanced lectures, keynote sessions, and hands-on laboratory activities led by experts from Google DeepMind, the Qatar Computing Research Institute, KAUST, and InstaDeep.
The experience provided Dr. Banat with valuable exposure to cutting-edge developments in Arabic-language models, AI evaluation methodologies, and the responsible integration of AI in educational environments. The knowledge gained will directly support her ongoing research in machine translation quality and contribute to AI literacy initiatives, further strengthening RHU’s engagement with emerging technologies and interdisciplinary research.
