Fellows

Senior Fellows

  • Dr Thomas Hardjono

    Dr Thomas Hardjono

    CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium at MIT in Cambridge, MA. USA.

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Professor Francisco Herrera

    Professor Francisco Herrera

    Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada and Director of the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI). Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Spain)

    Professor Herrera received his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1988 and Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1991, both from the University of Granada, Spain.

  • Professor Torsten Hoefler

    Professor Torsten Hoefler

    Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Winner of the Gordon Bell Prize (2019), a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. 

    Following a “Performance as a Science” vision, Professor Hoefler combines mathematical models of architectures and applications to design optimized computing systems.

  • Professor Soh Young In

    Professor Soh Young In

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Faculty of the Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)

    Soh Young In’s research interest is demonstrating environmental, social, and economic incentives related to low-carbon transition and implementing sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems through behavior change of various stakeholders.

  • Professor Michael Wolf

    Professor Michael Wolf

    Professor of Econometrics and Applied Statistics, University of Zurich

    Michael Wolf is a Professor of Econometrics and Applied Statistics at the University of Zurich, and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University.

Research Fellows

  • Professor Emilio Porcu

    Professor Emilio Porcu

    Department of Mathematics, Khalifa University and Visiting Professor, Trinity College Dublin.

    Professor Emilio Porcu received his Ph.D. in statistics in 2005. He became a full professor in 2012, Chair of Statistics at Newcastle University and then at Trinity College, Dublin, at the School of Computer Science and Statistics.

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Dr. Praneeth Vepakomma

    Dr. Praneeth Vepakomma

    Assistant Professor, Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

    Praneeth Vepakomma recently submitted his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Machine Learning at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi.

  • Dr Oleksiy Kondratyev

    Dr Oleksiy Kondratyev

    Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.

    Oleksiy holds MSc in Theoretical Physics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and PhD in Mathematical Physics from the Institute for Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Visiting Fellows

  • Professor Luis Seco

    Professor Luis Seco

    Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and Director of Risklab in Toronto, Canada.

    Professor Seco’s core activity is bringing artificial intelligence into today’s sustainability challenges to build a new and better world.

  • Dr Siddiq Anwar

    Dr Siddiq Anwar

    Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC) and Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

    Dr. Anwar believes in using data-driven decision-making in healthcare and process optimization to improve overall healthcare outcomes.

  • Dr Mecit Can Emre Simsekler

    Dr Mecit Can Emre Simsekler

    Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science & Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

    Dr. Simsekler is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Khalifa University of Science and Technology.

  • Professor Jorge P. Zubelli

    Professor Jorge P. Zubelli

    Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Khalifa University

    Professor Zubelli obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley (1989), his MSc from the National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA – Brazil) in 1984, and his Electrical Engineering degree from IME-RJ in 1983 with specialization on Telecommunications Engineering.

  • Dr Farah Shamout

    Dr Farah Shamout

    Dr. Shamout completed her DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was a member of Balliol College. She also completed her BSc in Computer Engineering (cum laude) at NYU Abu Dhabi.

    Farah Shamout is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi, where she leads the Clinical Artificial Intelligence Lab.

  • Dr Saleh Ibrahim

    Dr Saleh Ibrahim

    Associate Dean for Research
    Professor, Department of Medical Sciences 
    College of Medicine and Health Sciences
    Khalifa University

    Saleh Ibrahim earned his Bachelor of Medicine in Egypt, then obtained an MD in Immunology from Helsinki University.