Dubai Police officer among the 30 most prominent Arab figures in artificial intelligence

Major Issa Basaid: "The selection was subject to a number of criteria, including specialization, experience and practical practice in the field of artificial intelligence."

MIT Technology Review Arabia has chosen for excellence in artificial intelligence, an officer in the Dubai Police, among a list of 30 Arab personalities in artificial intelligence in the public, private and academic sectors in the Arab world.

The magazine represents the Arabic version of the American magazine issued by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the most superior and distinguished institute in the field of advanced technical research and its applications.

For his part, Major Dr. Issa Ibrahim Basaid expressed his happiness to have joined the list of the 30 most prominent Arab artificial intelligence experts 2022, noting that the selection was subject to a number of criteria, including specialization, experience and practical practice in the field of artificial intelligence, in order to serve institutions or projects operating in the Arab regions. Personal contribution to expanding the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in various sectors, and the role of personality in advancing scientific research a step forward in the fields of natural language processing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence of things, big data, chatbots and others, along with personal quest for greater achievement. Benefits from applications of this technology in various aspects of society, personal effort in simplifying the science behind artificial intelligence technology, and helping researchers and young entrepreneurs to engage in it.

Major Dr. Issa Ibrahim Basaid holds the position of Head of the Artificial Intelligence Applications and Emerging Technologies Department in the Smart Applications Department of the General Department of Artificial Intelligence in Dubai Police, and previously worked as Head of the Technical Projects Study Department in the same entity, Vice President of the Innovation Club for Resources, and an assistant researcher at the University of Khalifa, and a visiting scholar at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

He obtained a doctorate from Khalifa University in 2016, a master's degree in 2009, and a bachelor's degree in 2007, in computer engineering.

He is one of the recipients of the 2018 Under 35 Innovators Award, from MIT Technology Review, for devising an algorithm to distribute police patrols more effectively, reduce the time to reach emergency incidents, and help make the best possible use of available security resources, at all times. .

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