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Osmar Zaiane is a Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta, specializing in Computing Science. He holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science Management from the University of Tunis, a Master of Science in Electronics from Paris XI University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Laval University, and a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. His extensive research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence, specifically in areas such as Data Mining, Web Mining, Text Mining, Machine Learning, and Social Network Analysis. He serves as the Scientific Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), where he conducts research on knowledge discovery in large databases and information retrieval. His work on web mining includes developing architectures that abstract web content to facilitate resource discovery and implicit knowledge extraction. He is also interested in content-based image retrieval and data visualization techniques for managing large data collections, particularly in medical imaging. Zaiane actively teaches courses including ‘Introduction to Foundations of Computation II’.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management