{"id":9379,"date":"2025-05-12T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/?post_type=team&#038;p=9379"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:32:37","slug":"saif-m-mohammad","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/persons\/lab-experts\/saif-m-mohammad\/","title":{"rendered":"Saif M. Mohammad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short bio:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Saif M. Mohammad is a Principal Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining NRC, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Lexical Semantics, Computational Affective Science, AI Ethics, and Computational Social Science. 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