Name:Saad Ezzini

Bio:

Dr. Saad Ezzini is an Assistant Professor in the ICS Department and the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Luxembourg in 2022. Prior to joining KFUPM, he served as an Assistant Professor at Lancaster University, UK.

Dr. Ezzini’s research lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and Natural Language Processing. His work pioneers the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI frameworks to solve high-impact challenges, ranging from ambiguity resolution in requirements engineering and autonomous code review, to Text-to-SQL generation and embodied assistive robotics.

He has authored numerous publications in premier software engineering and NLP venues, including ICSE, ASE, ACL, and EMNLP. An active leader in the academic community, Dr. Ezzini frequently serves on the program committees for top-tier conferences, and has extensively organized international workshops and conferences (such as WACL-4 at COLING’25, RANLP’25, and ASE’23), he also serve as Associate Editor in the Natural Language Processing - Cambridge Press and on the Advisory board of John Benjamins NLP book series.

Country:Saudi Arabia

Affiliation:King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Research interests:Requirements Engineering, Text-to-SQL, Natural Language Understanding, SE for Robotics, Agentic-AI