Hussein Abbass

Hussein A. Abbass
Hussein Abbass in 2007
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Cairo, Egypt
CitizenshipAustralian
OccupationProfessor
Employer(s)University of New South Wales, Canberra
HonoursFellow 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]

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  2. ^ "Could this ancient Aboriginal language help solve artificial intelligence problems?". ABC News. 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  3. ^ Packham, Rachel; Wales, University of New South. "Aboriginal language could help solve complex AI problems". techxplore.com. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  4. ^ "El Idioma Aborigen Puede Ayudar A Resolver Problemas De IA - Noticias Informaticas". noticias-informaticas.com (in Spanish). 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  5. ^ a b "Hussein A. Abbass". IEEE. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  6. ^ "2020 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS" (PDF). IEEE.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 4, 2019.