Hatem Haddad is Co-Founder and CTO atiCompass. He received a doctorate (2002) in Computer Science and Information Systems from University Grenoble Alpes, France. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was a visiting researcher at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL), Singapore. His current research interests include Information Retrieval, Natural Languages Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He is a PC member or Chair in different conferences and serves as a reviewer for relevant journals in the area.