Fakhreddine Karray

Fakhreddine (Fakhri) Karray is a Tunisian-Canadian artificial intelligence scientist, electrical and computer engineer, author, and academic. He served as the Loblaws Research Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Waterloo's (UWaterloo) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and as the inaugural co-director of the Waterloo AI Institute at UWaterloo. Having previously served as the provost of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), he serves as a professor of machine learning at the university and as an emeritus professor at the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Karray's research interests encompass operational and generative AI, cognitive machines, natural human-machine interaction, and autonomous and intelligent systems. He has published in the fields of pattern analysis and machine intelligence and is the co-author of ''Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning'' and ''Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design''. His work on operational AI has been applied to intelligent transportation systems, virtual healthcare, and driver safety with him being featured in ''The Washington Post'', ''Wired'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and ''CBC''. He holds twenty US patents and has won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society's Best Land Transportation Award for his work on improving traffic flow prediction with weather Information in connected cars and the MeditCom Conference Best Paper Award for his study on federated learning in communication systems.

Karray is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Kavli Frontiers of Science, the Canadian Academy of Engineering. and the Engineering Institute of Canada. Provided by Wikipedia