Hossein Hassani

Hossein Hassani

Hossein Hassani is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). He has been with UKH since 2007. Prior to joining academia as a full-timer, he was in the software industry for about 17 years. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and is primarily interested and focused on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, particularly on the Kurdish language. He founded the Kurdish BLARK as a venue for publicizing the outcomes of the Kurdish processing projects he conducts or supervises. At TEDxNishtimans, Hossein will talk about the importance of Kurdish processing and its role with regard to Technological Singularity.