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Elias Khalil

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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  • Assistant Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

BIO

Elias Khalil is joining the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering as Assistant Professor starting July 2020. Elias is spending the year as IVADO Postdoctoral Scholar at Polytechnique Montréal. He obtained his PhD in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech (2019), a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech (2014), and a BS in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut (2012). His research interests are in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on machine learning and discrete optimization. He is the recipient of an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2016-2017), the First Prize in the poster competition at INFORMS (2017) and the Best Paper Award at the NIPS Workshop on Frontiers of Network Analysis (2013). He has interned at IBM Research and Symantec Research Labs.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJun 2020 - present
  • IVADO Postdoctoral Fellow
    Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, CanadaAug 2019 - Jun 2020
  • Research Assistant
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United StatesJan 2013 - May 2019

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Intern
    IBMAug 2017 - Dec 2017
  • Research Intern
    IBMMay 2016 - Aug 2016
  • PhD Intern Researcher
    SymantecMay 2013 - Aug 2013

DEGREES

  • PhD - Computational Science and Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
  • Master of Science - Computer of Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
  • Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
    American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)

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