Abir Messaoudi is a Senior Research Engineer at the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. She holds a Computer Engineering degree from the National Institute of Applied sciences and Technologies of Tunisia, a Research Master’s degree in Information Processing and Complexity of Living from The National School of Engineering of Tunis, and a Research Master's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris Cité. She works on innovative NLP and Speech projects prioritizing preserving and advancing under and mid-represented languages and dialects.