Our Team

Author of verified Kurdish lexical-resource research included in this project.

Author of verified Kurdish lexical-resource research included in this project.

Abdalla Taha Jabar

Abdalla Taha Jabar

Coauthor of the K-PIT and K-ZHMARA Kurdish handwriting dataset publication.

Abdulbasit K. Al-talabani

Abdulbasit K. Al-talabani

Researcher and coauthor of work on handwritten Sorani Kurdish text recognition and the DASNUS dataset.

Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

Researcher associated with the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr and its Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Centre, with work on Central and Northern Kurdish automatic speech recognition and related speech technologies.

Abeer Alsadoon

Abeer Alsadoon

Coauthor of published research on handwritten Central Kurdish character data.

Ahmed A. Qadir

Ahmed A. Qadir

Author of verified Kurdish spelling-correction research included in this project.

Akam Qader

Akam Qader

Researcher and co-author of the 2019 experimental Sorani Kurdish speech-to-text study and the BD-4SK-ASR resource.

Alexei Baevski

Alexei Baevski

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Alexis Conneau

Alexis Conneau

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Ali Abdalla Salam

Ali Abdalla Salam

Coauthor of the K-PIT and K-ZHMARA Kurdish handwriting dataset publication.

Ali Elkahky

Ali Elkahky

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Andros Tjandra

Andros Tjandra

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Anvar Bahrampour

Anvar Bahrampour

Co-author of verified research comparing allophone-, syllable-, and diphone-based text-to-speech systems for Kurdish.

Apoorv Vyas

Apoorv Vyas

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Aree Mohammed

Aree Mohammed

Co-author of research adapting F5-TTS for Sorani Kurdish speech synthesis.

Ari M. Saeed

Ari M. Saeed

Coauthor of the K-PIT and K-ZHMARA Kurdish handwriting dataset publication.

Arun Babu

Arun Babu

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Aso Mahmudi

Aso Mahmudi

Researcher in Kurdish speech technology. Co-author of Jira and later Northern Kurdish Transformer-based automatic speech recognition research.

Bahram ZahirAzami

Bahram ZahirAzami

Co-author of verified research comparing allophone-, syllable-, and diphone-based text-to-speech systems for Kurdish.

Bakr Omar Ali

Bakr Omar Ali

Researcher and coauthor of work on terminology and the Kurdish lexicon.

Blnd Yaseen

Blnd Yaseen

Researcher and coauthor of verified work on OCR for historical printed Sorani Kurdish publications.

Bowen Shi

Bowen Shi

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Chester Palen-Michel

Chester Palen-Michel

Researcher in multilingual and less-resourced language NLP and co-creator of LR-Sum.

Constantine Lignos

Constantine Lignos

Researcher in multilingual and less-resourced natural language processing and co-creator of LR-Sum.

Daban Q. Jaff

Daban Q. Jaff

Researcher in Kurdish language and speech resources associated with Koya University and international research collaborations. Co-author of FLEURS-Kobani and CORDI-related work.

Duygu Ataman

Duygu Ataman

Researcher in natural language processing and machine translation.

Faraedwn M. Salih

Faraedwn M. Salih

Researcher and coauthor of work on handwritten Sorani Kurdish text recognition and the DASNUS dataset.

Farhad Rahimi

Farhad Rahimi

Co-author of Central Kurdish neural speech-synthesis research and creator of the SoraniTTS speech corpus.

Fenik Muhammad Ghafur

Fenik Muhammad Ghafur

Researcher and coauthor of work on lexical gaps in English-Kurdish scientific translation.

Francis M. Tyers

Francis M. Tyers

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Hadi Veisi

Hadi Veisi

Researcher in Kurdish speech and language technology associated with the University of Tehran. Co-author of Jira and multiple Central and Northern Kurdish automatic speech recognition studies.

Hamreen Ahmad

Hamreen Ahmad

Co-author of research adapting F5-TTS for Sorani Kurdish speech synthesis.

Hamsa D. Majeed

Hamsa D. Majeed

Lead author of the Kurdish Standard EMNIST-like character dataset publication.

Hawraz A. Ahmad

Hawraz A. Ahmad

Researcher and co-author of Central Kurdish text-to-speech research and the Gigant-KTTS speech corpus.

Hawre Hosseini

Hawre Hosseini

Researcher and co-author of Jira, the Central Kurdish speech recognition system and associated speech-resource work.

Hiwa Asadpour

Hiwa Asadpour

Author of the 2026 Garrusi Kurdish study evaluating unadapted multilingual automatic speech recognition using staged normalization.

Hossein Hassani

Hossein Hassani

Researcher in Kurdish language technology associated with the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr. Co-author of early Sorani Kurdish speech-to-text research and other Kurdish language-processing studies.

Karwan Jacksi

Karwan Jacksi

Researcher and coauthor of KSTRV1, a scene-text recognition dataset involving Central Kurdish.

Kazi Hassan Saleh

Kazi Hassan Saleh

Researcher and coauthor of work on translating medical terminology into Kurdish.

Mariam Masoud

Mariam Masoud

Co-author of verified Kurdish-English machine translation research.

Marie Tahon

Marie Tahon

Researcher associated with LIUM at Le Mans Université and contributor to Southern Kurdish speech-recognition resources and benchmarking.

Maryam Fazel-Zarandi

Maryam Fazel-Zarandi

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Memduh Gökırmak

Memduh Gökırmak

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Meysam Shamsi

Meysam Shamsi

Co-author of research on Central Kurdish text-to-speech and speech-to-text translation, including the TTS4All Central Kurdish speech resources.

Michael Auli

Michael Auli

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Mohammad Mohammadamini

Mohammad Mohammadamini

Researcher in Kurdish speech technology and language resources. Contributor to Jira and later Kurdish speech-resource and ASR research covering Central, Southern, and Northern Kurdish.

Mohammed Y. Shakor

Mohammed Y. Shakor

Coauthor of the K-PIT and K-ZHMARA Kurdish handwriting dataset publication.

Muhammed Y. Azeez

Muhammed Y. Azeez

Author of verified Kurdish spelling-correction research included in this project.

NLLB Team

NLLB Team

Research team responsible for the No Language Left Behind multilingual machine translation project.

Om-Kolsoom Shahryari

Om-Kolsoom Shahryari

Co-author of verified research comparing allophone-, syllable-, and diphone-based text-to-speech systems for Kurdish.

Paden Tomasello

Paden Tomasello

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Peshraw Ahmed Abdalla

Peshraw Ahmed Abdalla

Researcher and lead author of the K-PIT and K-ZHMARA Kurdish handwriting dataset publication.

Rebin M. Ahmed

Rebin M. Ahmed

Researcher and coauthor of a published dataset of handwritten Central Kurdish isolated characters.

Rebwar M. Nabi

Rebwar M. Nabi

Author of verified Kurdish spelling-correction research included in this project.

Renas Sardar Azeez

Renas Sardar Azeez

Coauthor of the Kurdish Standard EMNIST-like character dataset publication.

Rondik Hadi Abdulrahman

Rondik Hadi Abdulrahman

Researcher at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr whose work includes automatic text summarization of Sorani Kurdish research documents.

Roojwan Sc. Hawezi

Roojwan Sc. Hawezi

Author of verified Kurdish spelling-correction research included in this project.

Sabat Muhamad

Sabat Muhamad

Co-author of the 2022 Central Kurdish text-to-speech transfer-learning study included in this collection.

Sabat Salih Muhamad

Sabat Salih Muhamad

Researcher and co-author of Central Kurdish neural text-to-speech studies using Tacotron 2, transfer learning, and neural vocoding.

Salman Burhan Ahmed

Salman Burhan Ahmed

Co-author of Transformer-enhanced deep-learning research for Central Kurdish text-to-speech synthesis. The associated paper PDF spells the surname Ahmed.

Saman Idrees

Saman Idrees

Researcher and coauthor of verified work on printed Sorani Kurdish OCR using Tesseract LSTM.

Sara Belelli

Sara Belelli

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Sardar Omar Salih

Sardar Omar Salih

Researcher and coauthor of KSTRV1, a scene-text recognition dataset involving Central Kurdish.

Sayani Kundu

Sayani Kundu

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Seyedali Mirjalili

Seyedali Mirjalili

Coauthor of published research on handwritten Central Kurdish character data.

Shahin Salavati

Shahin Salavati

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Shima Tabibian

Shima Tabibian

Researcher and co-author of the Transformer-based Northern Kurdish automatic speech recognition study using Whisper.

Sina Ahmadi

Sina Ahmadi

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Soran Badawi

Soran Badawi

Researcher in Kurdish natural language processing and creator of KurdSum, a benchmark dataset for Kurdish text summarization.

Sozan Abdullah Mahmood

Sozan Abdullah Mahmood

Co-author of Transformer-enhanced deep-learning research for Central Kurdish text-to-speech synthesis.

Tarik A. Rashid

Tarik A. Rashid

Researcher at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr working in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and Kurdish language and speech technology. Co-author of Transformer-based Central and Northern Kurdish ASR research.

Vineel Pratap

Vineel Pratap

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Wafa Barkhoda

Wafa Barkhoda

Co-author of verified research comparing allophone-, syllable-, and diphone-based text-to-speech systems for Kurdish.

Wei-Ning Hsu

Wei-Ning Hsu

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Wirya Fathy

Wirya Fathy

Researcher and co-author of Jira, the Central Kurdish speech recognition system and associated resource-development study.

Xiaohui Zhang

Xiaohui Zhang

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Yossi Adi

Yossi Adi

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

Zahra Azin

Zahra Azin

Researcher contributing to verified Kurdish language-resource research.

Zhaoheng Ni

Zhaoheng Ni

Co-author of the Massively Multilingual Speech research covering speech technology for more than one thousand languages.

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