Foutse Khomh

Scientific Co-Director
Scientific and International Activities

Foutse Khomh is a Full Professor of Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair on Trustworthy Machine Learning Software Systems, and an FRQ-IVADO Research Chair on Software Quality Assurance for Machine Learning Applications. He received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Montreal with the Award of Excellence. He also received a CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2019. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, machine learning systems engineering, cloud engineering, and dependable and trustworthy ML/AI. His work has won several awards. He is co-founder of the CRSNG CREATE SE4AI project: A Training Program on the Development, Deployment, and Servicing of Artificial Intelligence-based Software Systems. He is also a co-founder of Quebec’s initiative on Trustworthy AI (Confiance IA Quebec). Read more

As Co-Scientific Director – Scientific and International Activities, Foutse Khomh will provide essential leadership in directing and managing the scientific activities associated with R³AI, as well as developing IVADO’s international strategy.