Khaled El Emam

Dr. Khaled El Emam is a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa. Khaled heads the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including de-identification methods and synthetic data generation. He is also a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded six companies involved with data management and data analytics. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement.

Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Khaled held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005 to 2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.