Dr. Abdelkader Baggag is a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the ICT Division of the College of Science and Engineering, where he teaches Generative AI Foundations. Dr. Baggag is an expert in Machine Learning and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, USA. Before joining QCRI, he was at McGill University and then a tenured Associate Professor at Laval University in Canada.

Dr. Baggag worked at leading HPC research centers in the USA, e.g., CRI at Purdue, ICASE at NASA Langley Research Center in VA, and MSI in Minnesota. Dr. Baggag’s research is in AI and RL, focusing on multimodal LLMs. He has worked on AI and ML applications that include AI for wearable data analytics, traffic prediction and missing data imputation, and AI for resilient smart cities.