Dr. Huthaifa I. Ashqar is a professor and consultant with extensive experience in managing large-scale programs in AI, data science, and social science. He is the director of Enbat, an assistant professor at Arab American University, and was an adjunct faculty of AI at Columbia University. He is also a Scholar Fellow of social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. He has 12+ years of local and international experience as a program manager, technical advisor, and business developer with a primary focus on AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Deep Learning and their applications on Climate Change, Smart Cities, Economic Development, and Advanced Transportation and Energy Technology. His experience includes being a technical advisor and project manager for programs with over $50 million value in AI and advanced technologies at U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E.