Sarmad Hussain is the senior manager for the IDN program at ICANN. He has more than 20 years of research and development experience in local language computing, including Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
He has been a professor of Computer Science and the IDRC Research Chair in Multilingual Computing in Pakistan, where he has worked on multiple languages spoken in South and South East Asia. He holds a doctoral degree in Speech Science from Northwestern University, USA, and is a member of the executive board of Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.