Mona Diab

Dr. Mona Diab is the Director of the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University and a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science. She is a globally recognized leader in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), with significant contributions to Arabic NLP, responsible AI, and cross-lingual systems.

• Trustworthy NLP and Responsible AI
• Controllable Natural Language Generation
• Culturally aware generative AI modeling
• Cross-lingual/multilingual processing (low-resource contexts)
• Computational social science and health analytics

Her recent research focuses on cultural alignment in LLMs, embedding compression via wavelet transforms, and automating AI documentation through CARDGEN. Publications demonstrate her expertise in bias mitigation, conversational AI, and scientific content democratization.

• ACL Fellow
• King Salman Global Arabic Academy award recipient
• Elected member of CRA board (2025)

Dr. Diab leads the R3LIT Lab at CMU and has mentored numerous students across her academic career at CMU, George Washington University, and industry roles at Amazon AWS and Meta.