Rate My Professor Fakhri Karray

Professor Karray’s research interests include operational AI, multi-modal fusion transformers, and distributed agents architecture for generative AI, with applications in virtual healthcare systems, cognitive and self-aware machines, robots, and vehicles in smart cities, as well as predictive analytics in supply chain management and intelligent transportation systems. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Kavli Frontiers of Science. His honors include the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Land Transportation Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE Communication Society’s International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking Best Paper Award, and the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award in 2019. He is co-author of the textbooks Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design (Addison Wesley, 2004) and Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning (Springer, 2022). He has published extensively in pattern analysis and machine intelligence and holds 20 U.S. registered patents. He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Yourika.ai.