Computer science PhD alum Mazen Melibari among most prominent AI experts in the Arab world, says MIT Technology Review

Friday, April 8, 2022

Mazen Melibari

Mazen Melibari, assistant professor of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia, has been recognized by MIT Technology Review (Arabic version) as among the 30 most prominent experts in artificial intelligence in the Arab world for the year 2022.

Melibari obtained his PhD in computer science in 2016 at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Pascal Poupart and Edward Lank.

Melibari is also a senior research and innovation engineer at the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE). His research interests are in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science.

Read more in an article on the Cheriton School of Computer Science website.