Ali Abbas is an Adjunct Professor at University of Ottawa, he received his PhD in 2010, his M.Sc. in 2004; in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Ottawa, and his B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal year 2000. Ali is a researcher and entrepreneur; he co-founded and managed KI Design in early 2017, prior to that Ali was an architect and senior manager with eHealth Ontario 2010-2017.
Ali was a team leader, architect, and manager in several well-known Canadian companies, such as CAE Electronics from 1998-2000 in Montreal; Nortel Networks 2000-2002; and Mitel Networks 2002-2004, in Ottawa. Ali focused on implementing strategies to innovate and played an integral part in conceiving the essential product architecture, formulating its business plan, and successfully delivering complete end to end systems to end users.
Ali has solid experience in research and teaching, having taught at the University of Ottawa since 2006. He taught more than 10 different undergraduate courses, and more than 15 different graduate courses. He also provided training and education to government institutes and private sectors to use tools, technologies and systems engineering techniques to deliver creative solutions.
Ali’s current research interest is in Medical Engineering, specifically in eHealth and telemedicine, robotic surgery, medical instrumentations, medical informatics systems, computational process for medical diagnosis and patient outcomes, medical protocols modeling & automation, and AI in medical applications.