Majdi Sawalha is an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Jordan (since 2012) and Al-Ain University (since 2023). His research interests are in Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Morphological and Syntactic Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Prosodic and Phonological Analysis, Text Data Mining, Lexicography, and Machine Learning. As a graduate of the University of Leeds – U.K., he played an active role in building Leeds' reputation for Arabic Language Computing.  He has developed the SALMA toolkit for morpho-syntactic analysis of Classical and Modern Standard Arabic. He is also developing state-of-the-art Arabic-IPA transcription technology. Currently, he is A co-investigator for many research projects.​