the high number of people living under the poverty line. Many poor families receive some “generous” dowry, while they get rid of an extra member in the family to feed.

Setting a minimum age of marriage of 18 years for girls in Yemen was among the main recommendations of national dialogue held in Yemen as part of the Gulf initiative to end the tension in the country after people took to the streets to demand change.

Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, according to the initiative, handed over the power to his deputy, Abed Rabou Mansour Hadi, and a national dialogue was held.

And even if it is approved, the law of minimum age needs nearly two years to come into effect, experts and activists said.

Until then, Yemen and Saudi Arabic remainserved as a guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Issue on Learning Deep Architectures, as well as area chairs and senior program committee of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Neural Information Processing Systems, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, and the International Conference on Computer Vision. He was selected by IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of AI’s 10 to Watch in 2013.