A professor in electrical and computer engineering has been appointed to an updated Val O’Donovan Chair position that reflects the Faculty’s strategic focus on advancing artificial intelligence through ethical research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and student engagement.
Starting September 1, Dr. Amir-Hossein Karimi will hold an O’Donovan Chair in Trustworthy AI. The five-year appointment comes with $100,000 in annual research support.
Karimi, an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute, leads the CHARM Lab, which develops AI systems for safe, reliable and human-aligned decision-making. Drawing on industry experience at Meta, Google Brain and DeepMind, he focuses on causal inference, explainable AI and neuro-symbolic methods. The CHARM Lab aims to strengthen human-AI collaboration in fields such as healthcare and finance by detecting issues, correcting errors and integrating insights from social sciences and behavioural economics.
Read the original article published on the Faculty of Engineering website.