Prof. Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs is Professor of Linguistics, Chair of the Linguistics & Translation Department, and Leader of the Language and Communication Research Lab at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from Alexandria University, Egypt, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA. Her research focuses on pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and AI-mediated communication. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals, including Journal of Pragmatics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Psycholinguistics, Language and Dialogue, Language Teaching Research, System, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Her recent work explores human–AI communication, multilingual language processing, vocabulary acquisition, English-medium instruction, and intercultural pragmatics. She regularly delivers professional development programmes for language teachers and researchers and serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several international journals. Her contributions have been recognised through multiple Distinguished Researcher Awards, Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Excellence awards at Prince Sultan University, and Scopus recognition as the most productive researcher in Linguistics in Saudi Arabia and the second most productive in the Arab world (2018–2023).