Ebrahim Bagheri
Ebrahim Bagheri is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. He is an interdisciplinary researcher who focuses on efficient and responsible information retrieval methods, and who has impacted industry, government and civil society through community engagement and knowledge translation. Before joining the Faculty of Information, Ebrahim held a Canada Research Chair in Social Information Retrieval and an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Social Media Analytics at Toronto Metropolitan University.
He is the Founder and former Director of NSERC CREATE program on the Responsible Development of AI (RAI)—a 6-year, multi-sector, multi-institutional, collaborative training program that draws co-applicants from TMU, Waterloo, Western, UQAM, and McGill.
He is the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
In 2019, Ebrahim received the Government of Canada NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation for his outstanding industry-academia collaborations.
Selected Publications
Bagheri, E., & Samavi, R. (2024). Explainable AI in clinical decision support: Bridging transparency and utility (external link) . Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 144, 102578.
Bagheri, E., Karimi, H., & Samavi, R. (2023). Natural language processing for mental health assessment: Challenges and opportunities (external link) . In S. Ahmed & L. Smith (Eds.), AI Applications in Healthcare (pp. 201–220). Springer.
Bagheri, E., & Teferra, B.G. (2022). Automated screening for depression using deep learning: A systematic review (external link) . Interactive Journal of Medical Research, 12(4), e54021.