Maha Al-Yahya is an Associate professor at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer Information Sciences at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, UK, and her MSc. in Computer Science from Bristol University, UK. She is a member of IWAN Research Group at King Saud University, and has research interests in Arabic Computing and Arabic NLP.