Biography

Hazem M. Abbas (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. He is currently a Continuing Adjunct with the School of Computing, Queen’s University. He had chaired the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Ain Shams University, and also served as the Dean of Media and Engineering Technology with the German University in Cairo, Egypt. He worked for the Royal Military College, Kingston; IBM Toronto Lab and Mentor Graphics (now Siemens EDA). Prof. Abbas chaired the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter in Cairo and the TC3 (Technical Committee) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). His research focuses on developing theoretical foundations and fundamental results for modeling, analysis, and optimization of machine learning models with applications in computer vision, image processing and natural language processing.

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