Hanan Salam is the co-founder and president of Women in AI, an international non-profit Do-Tank whose mission is to close the gender gap in the domain of Artificial Intelligence through education, research, and events.
After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow and one year as a teaching and research assistant (ATER) at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Sorbonne), she spent one year in the industry where she was an R&D Engineer in AI and Robotics at A.I.Mergence, a startup specialized in intelligent autonomous robots for home security. Following, she worked as an independent consultant in AI and Data Science, in parallel with part-time lecturing at different French universities and engineering schools. She is currently an associate professor in AI at Emlyon Business School in Lyon, France.
She has published several international peer-reviewed conference and journal papers on social robotics and intelligent affective computing. Her scientific interests include Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction, social robotics, computer vision, machine learning and affective computing. She is an advocate of technology for common good and an activist for women empowerment.
PhD Degree in Telecommunications, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, (STIC), Centrale Supélec, Rennes, France
Previously: Emerging Scholar/ Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE