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Shady Shehata is an Associate Professor in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) department at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Shady Shehata is also the Co-founder and CTO of the YOURIKA company. Out of 4000 competing companies worldwide, Shehata built a strong IP technology for personalized learning that allowed YOUIRKA to be the first and only Canadian company accepted in the Amazon Alexa Funds Competitive Program based on five due diligence interviews with Amazon AI teams. Amazon invested in YOURIKA and is a partner. Shehata built strong relationships with the industry through 70-plus connections at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Shehata’s current research pursues a multimodal approach to understanding English and Arabic languages with text analysis and speech recognition. It focuses on building an Arabic language model to be utilized in Arabic natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as sentiment analysis, named-entity recognition, and question answering. The Arabic language model will also be used at the different stages of Arabic speech recognition. The research is taken further to support unsupervised, self-training for using parallel processing.