Dr. Ali Abbas is an adjunct professor at University of Ottawa, an entrepreneur and an industry leader in intelligent health informatics. Ali received his PhD and MSc from University of Ottawa in electrical and computer engineering, and his B.Eng. in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University in Montreal.
Ali is a passionate educator, always setting the example of excellence in teaching and mentoring, aiming to inspire the next generation of engineers. He has also offered training and education to government institutes and the private sector on using AI technologies and systems engineering techniques to deliver creative solutions.
Ali is a co-founder and manager of KI Design. Previously, he was an architect and senior manager with eHealth Ontario. Ali is founder and CEO of the Smart Digital Medicine. He was a team leader, architect and manager, and has held key roles at several well-known Canadian companies, such as CAE Electronics, Nortel Networks and Mitel Networks, where he led groundbreaking projects in AI technologies. Ali focused on implementing strategies to innovate and played an integral part in conceiving the essential product architecture, formulating business plans and delivering complete end to end systems to users. Ali is implementing tools to innovate, measure progress, sustain and deploy products to the market.
Ali’s current research focus is on medical engineering, specifically, intelligent health informatics and telemedicine, vision-guided autonomous robotic surgery, developing artificial intelligence algorithms for medical diagnosis and AI treatment plans, medical protocol modelling and automation, and innovating AI techniques for complete end to end clinical reasoning.