Middle East AI

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Researchers

Notable AI researchers at Gulf Cooperation Council institutions.

Timothy Baldwin

🇦🇺🇦🇪 Provost, MBZUAI

NLPComputational LinguisticsArabic NLP

Provost at MBZUAI. One of the leading NLP researchers globally, focusing on multilingual and low-resource language processing.

Eric Xing

🇦🇪 President, MBZUAI

Machine LearningProbabilistic Graphical ModelsDeep Learning

President and Professor at MBZUAI. Pioneer in machine learning and AI, founding President of MBZUAI since 2019.

Preslav Nakov

🇦🇪 Professor, MBZUAI

NLPDisinformation DetectionArabic NLP

Professor at MBZUAI. Renowned for his work on misinformation detection, Arabic NLP, and question answering.

Salman Khan

🇦🇪 Associate Professor, MBZUAI

Computer VisionVisual TransformersMedical Imaging

Associate Professor at MBZUAI and researcher at Australian National University. Known for contributions to vision transformers and efficient deep learning.

Fahad Shahbaz Khan

🇦🇪 Professor, MBZUAI

Computer VisionObject DetectionVisual Recognition

Professor at MBZUAI and Linköping University. One of the most cited computer vision researchers, with work on real-time object detection and visual understanding.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

🇸🇦 Professor, KAUST

Deep LearningLSTMMeta-Learning

Professor at KAUST. Co-inventor of LSTM networks and a foundational figure in deep learning. Known for foundational work on recurrent neural networks and unsupervised learning.

Xiangliang Zhang

🇸🇦 Professor, KAUST / Notre Dame

Graph Neural NetworksNLPTime Series

Professor at University of Notre Dame (formerly KAUST). Known for research on graph learning, NLP, and scientific AI for energy applications.

Mohamed Al-Rubaie

🇸🇦 President, SDAIA

AI PolicyDigital TransformationData Governance

President of Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Leads Saudi Arabia's national AI strategy under Vision 2030.

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