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Dr. Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Pronouns: She, Her

Positions

Assistant 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

For media enquiries, contact

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

Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Explainable Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Climate Modelling and Disaster Response, AI for Health

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Awards

  • 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

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