Received multiple accolades including the UofToronto Spirit of Engineering Science Award (2015), UWaterloo Alumni Gold Medal Award (2018), NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctorate (2018), Google PhD Fellowship (2021), ETH Zurich Medal (2024), NSERC Discovery Grants & Supplements (2024), and Igor Ivkovic Teaching Excellence Award (2024).
Research Experience
Accumulated significant industry experience at leading tech companies such as BlackBerry (2013), Meta (Facebook) (2014-2016), Google Brain (2021), and DeepMind (2022); provided consulting services for various startups and incubators including NEXT AI; leads the Collaborative Human-AI Reasoning Machines (CHARM) Lab, dedicated to advancing safe and trustworthy human-AI collaborations.
Education
Degree: PhD; School: Not explicitly mentioned; Advisor: Not explicitly mentioned; Time: Not explicitly mentioned; Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
Background
Research interests include safe and trustworthy human-AI collaboration; professional fields encompass Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science; Bio: Dr. Karimi is an award-winning researcher and educator, currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, with a cross-appointment in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute.
Miscellany
Personal interests and hobbies not explicitly mentioned.