Associate professor at Oryx university
Since 2018 Associate professor (Civil servant), University of Poitiers in France (in leave)
Former elected member of the National Council of French Universities (CNU), France
Part-Time Instructor, Data science and Artificial intelligence Department at University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), Qatar
Officer Liaison for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (Division 8: Image Technology), focusing on the coding of audio, image, multimedia, and hypermedia information.
Expert reviewer for the ANRT, the French National Research and Technology Agency.
Assistant professor, university of Limoges, France
Assistant researcher, Data Science Department, EURECOM, Nice, France
Assistant professor, LaBRI, ENSEIRB-MATMECA and University of Bordeaux, France
With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Olfa Ben Ahmed has led and contributed to numerous regional, national, and international research projects, spanning both academic and industrial collaborations. She has served as Principal Investigator on nine French and international research grants in AI and Computer Vision (including 5 Lead PI, 1 Co-Lead PI, and 3 PI roles), notably as Lead PI of the prestigious ANR JCJC MIMIC project on AI for medical image analysis and classification. She has also been LPI or Co-LPI for major initiatives such as the regional VIDALZ project on virtual biopsy for early Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the ANR SPRITE project on human activity analysis, and the international French Korean GLITAI project on AI-based glioma detection and grading in collaboration with the University Hospitals of Poitiers (France) and Seoul (Korea), among others. Through these initiatives, she bridges cutting-edge research with real-world applications, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, mentoring students, and fostering collaborations between universities and industry partners. She has supervised and is currently supervising multiple postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and Master’s students. In recognition of her contributions, she received the highly selective Doctoral and Research Supervision Allowance (RIPEC) from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and has been awarded Best Paper, Best Poster, and Best System distinctions at various international conferences, including ACM Multimedia, CBMI, BioMed 2017, and MediaEval 2017.
