Salma Elkhaoudi

Salma is pursuing a PhD in anthropology at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, with a focus on the development of Arabic-trained AI and its sociocultural implications for the Arab world. Her research explores how ideas about the Arab past and future are being brought into relation with each other through AI, destabilizing these concepts and revealing the ways in which AI development is deeply embedded in cultural, historical, and political contexts.

As an SRC Fellow, Salma is working on to analyze different open-source corpora across Arabic dialects, as well as mapping the broad network of collaborations driving NLP technology development throughout the Arab world.

Salma holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She also spent several years working as a technology and AI researcher across the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.