Hadi Khalilia is a faculty member in the field of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, with a strong interdisciplinary background spanning computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, and machine learning. He serves as Head of Computer Science at the College of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence at Palestine Technical University (PTUK) and is a research group member of the KnowDive Research Group at the University of Trento, Italy.
He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Trento, where his research focused on developing language resources and addressing lexical gaps in natural languages. His research interests include computational linguistics, natural language processing, language diversity, information retrieval, and machine learning. He has published extensively in international (Q1 and Q2) journals and conferences, including Frontiers in Psychology, LREC, ICNLSP, and ACL workshops. His work has contributed significantly to advancing multilingual lexicons, improving Arabic WordNet quality, and studying lexical diversity across languages and dialects. In addition, Dr. Khalilia has held several academic leadership and administrative roles.