Prof. Boulbaba Ben Amor, HdR. (Habilitation to supervise Research), Ph.D., MSc., Eng. in Computer Science.
Director - AI for Good, Inception (a G42 company), Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Full Professor, Computer Science, Institut Mines-Telecom (IMT), Nord Europe, France.
Fulbright Alumni (2016-2017), Mentor (2018) and program Ambassador (2019).
IEEE Senior Member, IAPR Member.
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM)
B. Ben Amor is currently Director - AI for Good with Inception, a G42 company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is in sabbatical leave from his Full Professor position in Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Nord Europe and CRIStAL Research Center (UMR CNRS 9189), in France. He was awarded with the prestigious Fulbright Research Scholarship (in 2016-2017) to visit Florida State University (FL, USA). He earned the Habilitation to Supervise Research (H.D.R.) in Computer Science from the University of Lille (France), in Dec. 2014. He received the PhD (2006) and the MSc degrees (2003) also in Computer Science, both from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) under the Supervision of Professor Liming Chen. In 2002, he was graduated with the Engineer degree in Computer Science from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), in Tunisia. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IAPR. He was a visiting researcher to the SSAMG group (FSU, USA) in 2013-14. He served as general co-chair of the international workshop RFMI in 2016 and 2017. He was maintaining the liaison with the IAPR and the publisher Springer. He is also an active member of its Steering Committee.
Prof. B. Ben Amor was the founding and former director of the Mastère Spécialisé® “Cyber. Engineering”, accredited by the CGE (Conference des Grandes Ecoles) and labeled SecNumEdu by the ANSSI (link) at IMT Lille Douai, in France. The Master is currently ranked 1st in region Hauts-de-France.
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Contact Information
Director - AI for Good, Inception/G42, UAE.
Full Professor of Computer Science, IMT Nord Europe, France
Fulbright Alumni/Fulbright Mentor//Fulbright Ambassador
e-mail : boulbaba DOT amor AT inceptionai DOT ai