Prof. Fakhri Karray
IEEE Fellow
University of Waterloo, Canada
Fakhri Karray is the founding co-director of the University
of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and is the
Loblaws Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the
Department of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also a Professor of
Machine Learning and the former Provost at the Mohamed bin
Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), a
graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence (AI)
university, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Fakhri’s research interests
are in the areas of operational AI, cognitive machines,
natural human-machine interaction, and autonomous and
intelligent systems. Applications of his research include
virtual care systems, cognitive and self-aware
machines/robots/vehicles, predictive analytics in supply
chain management and intelligent transportation systems. He
serves as Associate Editor and member of the editorial board
of major publications in smart systems and information
fusion.
His most recent textbook in foundational machine learning
“Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning”
was published by Springer Nature in February 2023. He was
honored in 2021 by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
(VTS) with the IEEE VTS Best Land Transportation Paper Award
for his pioneering work on improving traffic flow prediction
with weather Information in connected cars using deep
learning and AI. His recent work on federated learning in
communication systems earned him and his co-authors the 2022
IEEE Communication Society’s MeditCom Conference Best Paper
Award. Fakhri is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering
Institute of Canada. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer
for the IEEE and a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. Fakhri
received the Ing. Dip degree in electrical engineering from
the School of Engineering of the University of Tunis,Tunisia
and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA.