Biography
Richard Khoury received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Université Laval (Québec, QC) in 2002 and 2004 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON) in 2007. From 2008 to 2016, he was Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor, in the Software Engineering Department at Lakehead University. In 2016, he moved to Université Laval, where he holds the position of Associate Professor. From 2021 to 2023 he was also President of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Canada. His research interests are in data mining and natural language processing, and further include knowledge management, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Academic background and professional experience
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Universty of Waterloo, 2007
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Université Laval, 2004
B.Eng., Computer Engineering, Université Laval, 2002
Postdoctoral fellow, Iyengar Lab & Systems Biology Center New York - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2007-2011
Awards and distinctions
Best Paper Nomination
K. Essaied, S. Mellouli, Sehl, R. Khoury, “Predicting User Frustration during Interaction with Conversational Systems”, 2024 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Salt Lake City (USA), 15-17 August 2024.
Best Student Paper Award
D. Beauchemin, R. Khoury, “RISC: Generating Realistic Synthetic Bilingual Insurance Contract”, 36th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal (Canada), 5-9 June 2023, pp. 1-12.
Best Student Paper Award
T. Racicot, R. Khoury, C. Pere, “Estimation of uncertainty bounds on disparate treatment when using proxies for the protected attribute”, 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver (Canada), 25-28 May 2021, pp. 1-12.
Research areas
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Artificial intelligence, n.e.c.
High-dimensional data analysis
Natural language processing
Optimization and algorithms and systems of data analytics
Artificial intelligence, n.e.c.
High dimensional data analysis
Natural language processing
Optimization and data analytics algorithms and systems
Contact
+ 1 418-656-2131