It’s official. The Euromed University of Fez and the Organization of the Islamic World for Education, Science and Culture (ICESCO) focus on inclusion and gender equality in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This is what emerges from the agreement endorsed this Thursday, June 17, 2021 between Prof. Mostapha Bousmina, President of UEMF on the one hand and Salim M. Al Malik, Director General of ICESCO, on the other hand. Endorsed at the end of the visit of the head of ICESCO to UEMF, the creation of a new chair entitled “Women in Science” is dedicated to Research & Innovation work in the field of Artificial Intelligence. This new creation reinforces the motivation and commitment of the two partners who make equality a fundamental basis and work, among other things, to promote inclusion and diversity in artificial intelligence more particularly, a field that has become today a lever for development and progress in several business sectors.
Concretely, this chair’s mission is to create a frame of reference to conduct and develop research work in partnership with the Moroccan industrial world. With such a vision, the impact and all the stronger. The UEMF thus intends to attract more doctoral students and especially doctoral students in the field of AI, with a clear desire to support and promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the digital sector. Future researchers will therefore be able to forge links with the best laboratories in the world thanks to the large network of UEMF partners via its School of Digital Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EIDIA), the leading school in ‘Engineers in this field on a Euro-African scale.
“The coordination and management of this chair is entrusted to Professor Maha Gmira, a recognized expert in artificial intelligence”, it is stressed. And to specify that Ms. Gmira is a specialist and teacher at the School of Digital Engineering and Artificial Intelligence having completed her doctoral thesis at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in one of the world centers of excellence on AI. , data science for real-time decision making IVADO, CIRRELT, GERAD, etc. and the MILA headed by Prof. Yoshua Bengio.
Today, she is a member of several prestigious research institutes and groups, recognized as world leaders in data science and artificial intelligence: Canada Excellence Chair.
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