Albert Salah

Prof. dr. Albert Salah (Utrecht University) serves as Professor of Social and Affective Computing in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. His research spans computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science with applications in behavioral analysis, mental health, migration studies, and animal welfare. He leads the AI and Animal Welfare Lab and contributes to the Utrecht Platform for Applied Data Science.

• Chair: Social and Affective Computing
• Editorial Roles: Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and International Journal on Human-Computer Studies
• Leadership: IEEE FG Steering Committee, ACM ICMI Steering Committee

Research focuses on:

• Human behavior analysis at individual, group, and societal scales
• Multimodal interaction modeling
• Mobile phone data applications for migration and mobility
• Computer vision for animal pain detection
• Ethical AI in asylum procedures

Key scientific activities include:

• Co-organizing 11th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (2025)
• Workshops at ACM ICMI 2025 and IEEE FG conferences
• Founding Dutch chapter of IEEE Biometrics Council

His work appears in journals like:

• Science Advances
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• EPJ Data Science
• Image and Vision Computing