BIO
Ibrahim Said Ahmad joined the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and brings over a decade of academic experience, including more than five years of university-level teaching. From 2014 to 2023, Dr. Ahmad served as a lecturer at Bayero University Kano, where he taught courses in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, and mentored graduate students. View CV. Prior to joining UW–Stevens Point, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI, conducting research in natural language processing and exploring approaches to make AI systems more culturally inclusive.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science
- Cross-cultural Collaborative Research in NLP
- Ethical AI and Bias Mitigation in Multilingual NLP
- Predictive Modeling for Business Applications
- Democratization of Data Science and Machine Learning
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Ahmad, I. S., Dudy, S., Belay, T. D., Abdulmumin, I., Yimam, S. M., Muhammad, S. H., & Church, K. (2025). Exploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages. arXiv preprintarXiv:2503.19642.
Abdulrashid, I., Ahmad, I. S., Musa, A., & Khalafalla, M. (2024). Impact of social media posts’ characteristics on movie performance prior to release: an explainable machine learning approach. Electronic Commerce Research, 1-25.
Mohamed, Y., Li, R., Ahmad, I. S. I., Haydarov, K., Torr, P., Church, K., & Elhoseiny, M. (2024). No Culture Left Behind: ArtELingo-28, a Benchmark of WikiArt with Captions in 28
Languages. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 20939-20962).
Dudy, S., Ahmad, I. S., Kitajima, R., & Lapedriza, A. (2024). Analyzing cultural representations of emotions in llms through mixed emotion survey. In 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 346-354.
AWARDS
- Best Resource Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics (2025)
- SemEval Best Task Award co-located with ACL2025
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS