Amal Zouaq

Amal Zouaq is an Associate 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 including knowledge extraction from unstructured knowledge sources, ontology learning and alignment, knowledge base learning and completion, natural language generation, and the analysis of large pre-trained language models capabilities as well as their exploitation and adaptation for NLP tasks. She 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.