Executive Director of the Innovation Center

Anis Koubaa is the Executive Director of the Innovation Center, the Research and Initiatives Center Director, and the leader and founder of the Robotics and Internet-of-Things Lab at Prince Sultan University. He is a Full Professor in Computer Science and has been working on several R&D projects on data science and unmanned systems, deep learning, robotics, and Internet-of-Things. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK.

Anis Koubaa received several awards, including (1) The AI Leadership Award and the Best AI Product Award in the AI and Cloud Expo May 2022, (2) Winner KAUST Challenge Award in Hajj and Umrah in 2021 (among 1300 teams) in Transport and Mobility Category and awarded by his Excellency Prince Khaled Alfaisal, the Governor of Makkah, (3) the Rector Best Teacher Award in 2016 at Prince Sultan University and (4) the Best Research Award in 2012 at Al-Imam University. He is also nominated in the carrier-based top 2% scientists list by Stanford University.
The current research interests of Anis Koubaa deal with developing automated solutions for logistics using drones and robots for delivery systems.
He presented several training programs on drones, data science, Python programming, deep learning, and several other technologies. He is known for his course series and books on the Robot Operating System (ROS).
Anis is the author of the ROSLink protocol that enables robots and drones to talk the cloud systems and develop cloud robotics solutions. He also leads AI projects on real-time face surveillance, vehicle detection, and license plate recognition. He also develops AI and automation solutions for smart cities, healthcare, and smart agriculture.