Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Affiliate Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Deparment of Electrical and Software Engineering
Adjunct Professor, École de technologie suprérieure, School of Computer Science
Adjunct Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Research Topics
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Medical Machine Learning
Multimodal Learning
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Representation Learning
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. I am also an adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology of ÉTS and an adjunct professor at the Computer School of McGill. Before joining ÉTS, I was a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Doina Precup at McGill/Mila. Before my postdoc, I was 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.