Ibrahim Said Ahmad

Ibrahim Said Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, joining in 2025. He previously served as a Lecturer at Bayero University Kano (2014–2023) and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• M.S. in Information Technology from The University of Nottingham
• B.S. in Computer Science from Bayero University Kano

His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) with cultural inclusivity, including ethical AI, bias mitigation in multilingual systems, and democratization of data science. He explores cross-cultural collaborative research and predictive modeling applications.

Notable Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize cultural nuances in emotion perception across African languages, multilingual benchmarking (ArtELingo-28), and explainable machine learning approaches for analyzing social media impacts on movie performance.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Resource Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics (2025)
• SemEval Best Task Award co-located with ACL2025

He is affiliated with the Internet Society (ISOC) and teaches courses like Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Computing.