Dr. Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Positions
Associate Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
Affiliations
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
~ Other ~
Mila (Quebec AI Institute) Affiliate Member
~ Other ~
Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University
~ Other ~
Contact information
Location
Office: ICT250
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Joe McFarland
Media Relations and Communications Specialist
Cell: +1.403.671.2710
Email: Joe.Mcfarland@ucalgary.ca
Background
Educational Background
PhD Computer Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, 2016
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ENEL 682 | Applied Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics | |
| ENEL 645 | Data Mining & Machine Learning |
Awards
- Ten-Year Technical Impact Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2025
- Early Career Research Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering. 2024
- Ten-Year Technical Impact Runner-Up, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2023
- Second place in the PROBA-V Super Resolution Challenge, European Space Agency. 2019
- Best Thesis Award, Department of Computer Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal. 2017
- Third place in the Emotion Recognition in the Wild Grand Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2015
- Best Paper Award, ECCV workshop on computer vision with local binary patterns. 2014
- Winner of the Emotion Recognition in the Wild Grand Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2013
Publications
In the News
- Predicting the perfect storm. CIFAR News. (2021)
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