Karima Echihabi

Karima Echihabi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco. Her research focuses on responsible and scalable data science, spanning data management, machine learning, high-performance computing, and socio-legal studies, with a particular emphasis on similarity search as a foundational operation in data science tasks like data cleaning and information retrieval.

She is the founding faculty advisor for the UM6P ACM Student Chapter, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an Associate Editor for ACM SIGMOD and PVLDB. Her passion for computer science education is evident through her coaching of students in competitions, resulting in awards such as a Gold Medal at the 2024 UNESCO/IRCAI AI in Africa Competition and a Silver Medal at the 2023 Moroccan National Programming Competition.

Karima earned a BSc in Software Engineering from Al Akhawayn University, an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Computer Science from Mohammed V University and Université de Paris. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond and IBM Toronto Lab, and as an entrepreneur in her own consultancy business.