He is the director of the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab at NYUAD. He received his PhD in 2003 from the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland College Park. He later joined Columbia University's Center for Computational Learning Systems where he co-founded in 2005 the Columbia Arabic Dialect Modeling group (CADIM). His research includes work on machine translation, morphological analysis, generation and disambiguation, syntactic analysis, and computational modeling of Arabic and its dialects. Professor Habash has over 100 publications including a book titled Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing. His website is www.nizarhabash.com