Dr. Mustafa Canim, UT Dallas CS PhD’11, Appointed For A Three-Year Term To The Board Of International Joint Conferences On Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Mustafa Canim earned his PhD in computer science in 2011 from the University of Texas at Dallas under the supervision of Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu. Dr. Canim was recently appointed for a three-year term to the board of International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). IJCAI is “a non-profit corporation founded in California in 1969 for scientific and educational purposes including the dissemination of information on Artificial Intelligence at conferences in which cutting-edge scientific results are presented and the publication of materials presented at these meetings in the form of proceedings, books, video recordings, and other educational materials.”
Dr. Canim is currently a Research Staff Member at the AI Technology Department of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Over the last ten years, he has worked with many companies including Airbus, Siemens, KPMG, Repsol, as well as government agencies, providing AI, NLP and Big Data solutions to the problems enterprise customers are facing. He is currently leading an AI-based technical project across the globe, developing a Business Analytics Platform for domain-specific corpuses. He holds over 40 patents worldwide and has published over 30 papers in refereed conferences, including Data Privacy and Security, NLP, Big Data, and AI areas, and served in the PC of many top AI and Big Data conferences.
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