Dr. Sheikh Faisal Rashid

Dr. Sheikh Faisal Rashid

Dr. Sheikh Faisal Rashid is a senior researcher and project lead at the Educational Technology Lab, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin, Germany. He has a Doctorate in Computer Science with a specialization in machine learning. He completed his Master's and B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. With around 15 years of experience as a professor, senior researcher, and consultant in academia and industry, his focus is on supervised machine learning to develop robust, efficient, and responsible AI for complex societal challenges. Currently, he is working on advancing AI applications in healthcare, improving diagnostic and treatment processes, and exploring generative AI for educational technologies. His long-term goal is to promote "AI for Social Good" while addressing ethical challenges in AI deployment.

Dr. Rashid authored around 40 research publications in prestigious conferences and journals covering document image processing, natural language processing, computer vision, and large language models. Some of his work has been internationally recognized with the Best Paper award and the first prize in the ICDAR 2013 competition on digitally represented multi-size multi-font Arabic text recognition.

In addition to his academic and research pursuits, He serves as the vice president of the Pakistan Pattern Recognition Society (PPRS), affiliated with the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is also a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a reviewer for numerous journals and conferences.