Kais Dukes

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Kais Dukes (Computer Scientist)
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Computer Scientist
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Kais Dukes

(1979-12-05) 5 December 1979 (age 43)
Sussex, England
Alma mater Imperial College, University of Leeds

Kais Dukes is a British computer scientist and software developer, known for the development of the Quranic Arabic Corpus.

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Education

Dukes studied a Masters in mathematics at Imperial College, and a PhD in AI. He was Leeds University Engineering PhD Student of the Year, and one of the first Leeds University PhD students to win a Research Excellence award. [1]

Career

Dukes was born to an English father who converted to Islam and a Saudi Arabian mother, and grew up bilingual. [2] In 2023, Dukes co-founded Hunna Technology, for AI driven, preventative health screening. [3] The company was first in Europe to appoint an AI as CEO. [4] [5] [6]

Work

Citations

  1. "School of Computing Research Colloquium - The Quranic Arabic Corpus: working with users and developers | Language at Leeds". www.latl.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  2. "[Event] The Quranic Arabic Corpus Project". www.imase.org.
  3. "Are healthcare technology jobs a better bet than fintech now?". eFinancialCareers. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  4. "First AI as CEO in Europe Revolutionizes Leadership using Human Supervision for Safety". Yahoo Finance. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  5. Hook, Steve (26 July 2023). "The first AI CEO? - Meet IndigoVX, the final boss". PC Guide. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  6. "All your company are belong to us: Europe gets its first AI CEO". today.rtl.lu. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  7. Proceedings at University of Leeds School of Computing.
  8. Nizar Habash, Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing, pg. 147. Volume 10 of Synthesis lectures on human language technologies. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010. ISBN   9781598297959

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