Achraf Othman is currently a PhD student under  the supervision of Prof. Mohamed  Jemni. He received in August 2010 the Master degree on Computer Science, with honors, from Tunis College of Sciences and Techniques, University  of  Tunis  in  Tunisia.  His  research  interests  are  in  the  areas  of  Sign  Language  Processing.  His  current topics  of interests include Grid  Computing,  Computer graphics and Accessibility  of  ICT  to  disabled  users. He  has many contributions for Sign Language (Corpora, Methods and approaches). He is an IEEE member since 2009. He is 

an Expert Consultant in Software Design  for Connect Tunisie and Manarate R&D in Tunisia. Also, he is an active member at E‐Access Association for Accessibility and Tawasol Association in Hammamet. He is always looking for new projects and opportunities.  

Achraf  Othman,  Zouhour  Tmar,  Mohamed  Jemni.  “Toward developing a very big Sign Language Parallel Corpus”.  The 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs ‘ICCHP’, Lecture Note in Computer Science LNCS Springer, July  11‐13,  2012, University of Linz, Austria. 

Achraf  Othman,  Mohamed  Jemni.  “English­ASL Gloss Parallel Corpus 2012: ASLG­PC12”. 5th Workshop  on  the Representation  and  Processing  of Sign  Languages:  Interactions  between Corpus and Lexicon, May 51‐27, 2012, Istanbul Turkey. 

Achraf  Othman,  Oussama  El  Ghoul,  Mohamed  Jemni.  “An automatic approach for facial feature points extraction from 3D head”.  International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications GRAPP’12, February 24‐26, 2012, Rome Italy. 2011

Achraf  Othman,  Mohamed  Jemni.  “Statistical Sign Language Machine Translation: from English written text to American Sign Language Gloss”.  International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol 8, Issue 5, September 30, 2011. Impact Factor: 0.248 

Achraf Othman, Heithem  Abbes, Mohamed  Jemni.  “Gridification of facial feature vertices

extraction from 3D head”. The EUMEDGRID­Support User Forum Workshop / The EGI Technical Forum 2011. September 19‐23, 2011, Lyon, France.