Summary
Ansaf Salleb-aouissi is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Columbia University with 13+ years of experience bridging AI research, education, and real-world applications. She directs the PRAISE Lab, focuses on AI for medicine, science, and education, and has authored 40+ peer-reviewed papers while teaching hundreds of students annually both on-campus and through a widely taken AI Micromasters on edX that has reached over a quarter million learners from 200 countries. A former INRIA postdoc with a PhD in machine learning from Université d'Orléans, Ansaf also won the NIH-NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge in 2021 and was recognized as a New and Future AI Educator in 2018. Committed to widening access, she co-founded Aiphabet, a nonprofit delivering free AI education to teens and pre-college students, blending rigorous research with pragmatic pedagogy.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universite d'Orleans
postdoc, Machine Learning, postdoc, Machine Learning at INRIA
Engineer's degree, Algeria Computer Science Engineer, Engineer's degree, Algeria Computer Science Engineer at USTHB Algiers
English, French, Arabic, spanish (beginner)