Richard Khoury

Richard Khoury is a Researcher at Laval University's Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He holds a Doctorate in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo (expected 2007), a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Laval University (2004), and a Baccalaureate in Computer Engineering from the same institution (2002). His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Cyberbullying Detection, with contributions to recommendation systems, toxic comment analysis, and health informatics. He has supervised collaborative projects and published extensively in top-tier venues. Key research areas include semantic analysis, conversational AI, and data mining applications in healthcare and media studies.

His recent work spans contextual integrity in polypharmacy analysis, automated journalistic question extraction, and synthetic bilingual contract generation. Collaborations include projects on user frustration prediction in conversational systems and pandemic-era media communication. He actively contributes to the development of NLP tools for French-language processing and ethical considerations in AI applications.