Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance
(UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair
position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions for
Asian languages, including research in linguistics, localization, speech processing, and computational
linguistics. He was an active member of the ICANN community before joining ICANN as well as a
member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).