Hussein A. Abbass | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Cairo, Egypt |
Citizenship | Australian |
Occupation | Professor |
Employer(s) | University of New South Wales, Canberra |
Honours | Fellow of the IEEE |
Hussein A. Abbass is an Egyptian researcher into artificial intelligence and professor at the University of New South Wales. He joined the university in 2000 and became a professor in 2007.[1] He is known for his research into the language Jingulu and its uses for artificial intelligence.[2][3][4] He is the founder and first editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Artificial Intelligence journal. Abbass was made a fellow of the IEEE in 2020 "for contributions to evolutionary learning and optimization".[5][6]
In the past, Abbass served as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's vice-president of technical activities from 2016 to 2019 and the President of the Australian Society for Operations Research (2017–2019).[1][5] He was a visiting fellow at Imperial College London (2003), visiting professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005), visiting professor at National Defence Academy, Japan (2013) and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (2014).[1]