Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is the Minister of Digital Transition and Administration Reform – Kingdom of Morocco, and former Executive President, Current Honorary President of the International Center of Artificial Intelligence of Morocco, Ai movement within the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Rabat – Morocco. Recently, Ai movement was granted Center of Category II under the auspices of UNESCO in AI for the Africa region.
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is also an exceptional class professor at the Sorbonne University, at the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering in Paris. She is the Principal Investigator of the Thales Endowed Chair of Excellence at Sorbonne University-Abu Dhabi/Center of Artificial Intelligence (Hybrid AI for cognitive radars). Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni holds a Ph.D in computer science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) and a Habilitation to advise Research (HDR) from Sorbonne Paris Nord University in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
She has initiated numerous research projects and developed sustained international collaborations with the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo in Japan, the University of Veracruz in Mexico, PUC RIO and the University from Sao Paulo in Brazil, Politehnica University in Bucharest in Romania, and other European universities. She created and then leads “SMA” team at LIP6 – UMR CNRS 7606 for 15 years (2006-2021) and co-leads the research axis “AI and Data Science” involving more than 120 permanent staff. She has directed 35 Doctorates at prestigious universities such as Paris Dauphine – PSL and Sorbonne University.
She has published 24 books and proceedings of international conferences, over 200 papers and articles. Prof. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is passionate about ethical issues of emerging technologies, social issues related to ethics, gender, inclusion, and social justice. She is a member of the World Commision on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of UNESCO (COMEST) and member of Expert Group for UNESCO project on AI and the Futures of Learning.