AI is a term that is constantly thrown around in today’s media; but what does it really mean? Dr. Ziad Kobti is a researcher in the field of artificial intelligence and goes in depth to explain how nature inspires these algorithms to make important decisions in healthcare, archaeology and automotive industries. Dr. Ziad Kobti holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wayne State University. He is a full professor and director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. He is also the current president of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (caiac.ca). He is an active researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) specializing in nature-inspired evolutionary algorithms such as genetic and cultural algorithms used in search and optimization. These types of algorithms evolve near-optimal solutions to complex real-world and dynamic problems fairly quickly. He has applied these algorithms in agent modelling and decision support systems in various disciplines including healthcare, archaeology, and automotive.
His work is published in revered and renowned venues; his past work on the virtual archaeology was featured in both Scientific American and Science Magazine. His goals are to continuously strive to develop new AI methods and apply them to new problems facing our society today and well into the future. His latest work centred on applying these algorithms to analyze social networks in an attempt to identify solutions applicable to health and social services. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx