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Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Adjunct Professor of Human Computer Interaction

Research interests

El Saddik’s research focus is on the establishment of digital twins to enhance the quality of life of citizens using artificial intelligence (AI), as well as multimedia computing and communications, and extended reality (XR) including haptics/AR/VR.

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Before joining MBZUAI, El Saddik served as a distinguished university professor and university research chair in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. He was the director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE) and the director of the Medical Devices Innovation Institute (MDII) and Director of the Information Technology Cluster, Ontario Research Network on Electronic Commerce (ORNEC).

El Saddik is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

He is an ACM distinguished scientist and has received several awards, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the German Humboldt Foundation, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Achievement Award.

During his career, he has supervised more than 150 researchers.

Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) Electrical and computer engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, 2001.
Dipl.-Ing. Electrical and computer engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, 1995.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Fellow of IEEE.
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the German Humboldt Foundation.
The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Achievement Award.
IEEE Canada C.C. Gotlieb (Computer) Medal.
A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal for important contributions to the field of computer engineering and science.
IEEE TCSC Achievement Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing.

Publication Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

El Saddik has co-authored 10 books and more than 600 publications and six U.S. patents, as well as chaired more than 50 conferences and workshops. El Saddik is the designated editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM), senior associate editor of IEEE Multimedia (IEEE MM), and guest editor for several transactions and journals. He has also received seven best paper awards.

Haptics Technologies: Bringing Touch to Multimedia (Springer), Abdulmotaleb El Saddik , Mauricio Orozco, Mohamad Eid, Jongeun Cha , 2011.
Multimodal fusion for multimedia analysis: a survey. PK Atrey, MA Hossain, A El Saddik, MS Kankanhalli Multimedia systems 16 (6), 345-379, 2010.
Digital twins: The convergence of multimedia technologies. A El Saddik, IEEE MultiMedia 25 (2), 87-92, 2018.
C2PS: A digital twin architecture reference model for the cloud-based cyber-physical systems, K. M. Alam and A. El Saddik, in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 2050-2062, 2017, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2657006.
Evaluating and improving the depth accuracy of Kinect for Windows v2. L Yang, L Zhang, H Dong, A Alelaiwi, A El Saddik. IEEE Sensors Journal 15 (8), 4275-4285, 2015.

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Selected works on MBZUAI eCommons