Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Assistant Professor at University of Calgary
Adjunct Professor at McGill and ÉTS
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Member of Mila, the Clinical Decision Support Systems Lab, and Computational Linguistics in Québec (CLIQ-ai)
University of Calgary, Office ICT-250
856 Campus Pl NW
Calgary, AB T2N 4V8
I am an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering. I am also an adjunct professor at McGill and ÉTS. I hold a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila. Before joining UCalgary, I was an associate professor at ÉTS. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Doina Precup at McGill/Mila.
I have also worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research Montréal.
I received my Ph.D. from Polytechnique Montréal/Mila in 2016 under the supervision of Professor Chris Pal.
During my Ph.D. studies, I worked on computer vision and deep learning applied to emotion recognition, object tracking and knowledge distillation.
My current research focuses on:
- deep learning (generalization and interpretability)
- reinforcement learning
- multi-modal learning
- clinical decision support systems
- climate modelling and disaster response
Prospective students: please send an email directly to samira.ebrahimi.kahou.lab at gmail dot com. Start the subject with [MSc/PhD/Postdoc/Internship] followed by topic of interest and attach your CV. Due to the high volume of emails I can only respond if there is a potential match.