Ziad Kobti

Dr. Ziad Kobti is a tenured professor at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. He is an active researcher in Artificial Intelligence working on evolutionary search heuristics, social simulations, and decision support systems. He received his PhD in 2004 from Wayne State University. He is currently the Director of the School of Computer Science at UWindsor, serving a second consecutive term in this role since July 2012. He has served as the University of Windsor representative on the Scientific Advisory Committee for SOSCIP since its inauguration in 2015 and the Windsor site representative for SHARCNET/ComputeCanada, now Digital Research Alliance of Canada, since 2014.

Dr. Kobti served as Senator at the University of Windsor for several years and chaired the Student Caucus that helps relay the voice of student’s life on campus to Senate. He was elected to the executive board of the Canadian Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC) in 2013, serving as Executive Secretary (2013-1015), Vice-President (2015-2017), President (2017-2019) and Past-President (2019-2021). He is a past organizer of the Canadian AI Conference and past program co-chair and local organizer.