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Wael Ouarda is an assistant professor of computer science at the Digital Center of Research of Sfax. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the National School of Engineering of Sfax in 2017 for his dissertation on ""Towards a Novel Biometric System of Smart Riding Club."" He is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2012. 
Wael Ouarda is interested in intelligent systems that operate in large and known domains like Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, and Business Intelligence. Most of his research centers around techniques for decision-making. He believes that finding good solutions to these problems requires approaches that cut across many different fields and, consequently, his research draws on areas such as artificial intelligence, decision theory, and operations research. Applications of his research focus on Smart City: Smart Life & Smart Health & Industry 4.0 & Smart Security & Smart Transportation.
Wael Ouarda has several conference papers and journals and published more than 40 papers in various areas of artificial intelligence. He was an invited speaker in several Workshops on Artificial Intelligence since 2017.

AMLD Africa 2021 / Speakers

Walid Daou

AI Lead, OCP

Carolina Odman

Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape

Stefano Ermon

Assistant Professor, Stanford

Aisha Walcott-Bryant

Research Manager, IBM Research Africa

Karim Beguir

CEO and Co-Founder, InstaDeep

Tawfik Jelassi

Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

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