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AI RESEARCHERS AT MSFEA
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    MSFEA, American University of Beirut 

    AI RESEARCHER​S
    AT MSFEA

    ​​​​​​​​​​Meet the researchers connecting artificial intelligence with the physical world.

    Explore the people behind AI research at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. Select a researcher to visit their faculty or research profile.

    Daniel Asmar
     

    Daniel Asmar

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Computer vision, robotic perception, SLAM, 3D understanding, autonomous navigation, human–robot interaction, and AI-assisted teleoperation.

    Mariette Awad
     

    Mariette Awad

    Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Machine learning, deep learning, explainable AI, NLP, reinforcement learning, anomaly detection, and learning methods applied across engineering and health.

    Joseph Bakarji
     

    Joseph Bakarji

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Scientific machine learning, physics-informed learning, model discovery, representation learning, and data-driven discovery of dynamical systems.

    Ali Chehab
     

    Ali Chehab

    Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: AI security, adversarial ML, LLM and agent security, privacy, explainability, knowledge distillation, and ML-enabled cybersecurity.

    Mahdi Chehimi
     

    Mahdi Chehimi

    Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Federated learning, reinforcement learning, quantum ML, quantum neural networks, ​semantic communications, and ML-enabled wireless networking.

    Naseem Daher
     

    Naseem Daher

    Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Learning-based robotics and autonomy, deep-neural-network obje​ct detection, supervised autonomy, drone perception, and autonomous ground vehicles.

    Imad Elhajj
     

    Imad Elhajj

    Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]​​​Research areas: Intelligent robotics and networked systems, machine vision, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, sensing, and ML-enabled health and communications applications.

    Ibrahim Issa
     

    ​ Ibrahim Issa

    Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Information-theoretic foundations of machine learning, generalization of learning algorithms, privacy, maximal leakage, and differential privacy.

    Rabih Jabr
     

    Rabih Jabr

    Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: CNNs and graph neural networks applied to power systems, particularly load forecasting, state estimation, and bad-data detection.

    Bilal Kaddouh
     

    Bilal Kaddouh

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: AI-enabled autonomous systems, particularly UAVs and mobile robotics; learned visual localization, object detection, and perception for autonomy.

    Ayman Kayssi
     

    Ayman Kayssi

    Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: ML and deep learning for cybersecurity, network-traffic classification, NAT detection, privacy-preserving visual systems, and explainable AI.

    Massoud Khraiche
     

    Massoud Khraiche

    Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Biomedical ML and deep learning for physiological signals, seizure detection, cardiovascular prediction, bioimpedance, biosensing, and neural engineering.

    Elsa Maalouf
     

    Elsa Maalouf

    Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Machine learning for materials, reservoirs, and geomechanics, including property prediction, metallic-glass discovery, and engineering-material optimization.

    Ammar Mohanna
     

    Ammar Mohanna

    Lecturer in Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: LLM/RAG systems, multimodal AI, adversarial robustness, visual localization, image segmentation, and AI security.

    Samir Mustapha
     

    Samir Mustapha

    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Deep learning, self-supervised learning, generative models, computer vision, and hyperspectral ML applied to structural-health monitoring and infrastructure sensing.

    Maher Nouiehed
     

    Maher Nouiehed

    Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management​[email protected]Research areas: ML optimization, generalization, out-of-distribution detection, cost-sensitive learning, robust learning, and deep-learning methodology.

    Sanaa Sharafeddine
     

    Sanaa Sharafeddine

    Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Deep reinforcement learning, meta-learning, edge intelligence, UAV-assisted communications, resource allocation, and learning-enabled wireless networks.

    Issam Srour
     

    Issam Srour

    Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: ML for construction management, including construction-equipment productivity forecasting, predictive maintenance, and time-series modeling.

    Karim Zahed
     

    Karim Zahed

    Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management​[email protected]Research areas: ML-enabled digital health and wearable sensing, including ensemble learning for hypoglycemia detection and LSTM/SHAP approaches for anticipating panic attacks.

    Fadi Zaraket
     

    Fadi Zaraket

    Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering​[email protected]Research areas: Arabic NLP and language-model methods, including tokenization, relation extraction, named-entity recognition, model fine-tuning, information extraction, and intelligent language systems.

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