Amal Zouaq

Associate Academic Member

Full Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering

Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Topics

Generative Models

Information Retrieval

Knowledge Graphs

Learning on Graphs

Natural Language Processing

Representation Learning

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Biography

Amal Zouaq is a Full Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (GIGL). She holds an FRQS (Dual) Chair in AI and Digital Health. She is also an IVADO professor, a member of the CLIQ-AI consortium (Computational Linguistics in Québec), and an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa.

Her research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and Semantic Web. She is the director of the LAMA-WeST research lab, specialized in all aspects of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a special focus on Semantic Web technologies. Semantic Web knowledge bases can represent a large-scale source of knowledge for artificial intelligence models and can be used, among other things, to ensure the validity of information, and the explainability of artificial intelligence models.

The LAMA-WeST research projects tackle challenges related to representation learning, natural language interfaces and question answering, automated reasoning, knowledge base learning and alignment, ontology learning, knowledge engineering and modeling, and information extraction and generation to name a few.

Prof. Zouaq serves as a member of the program committee in many conferences and journals in knowledge and data engineering, natural language processing, data mining and the Semantic Web.