Olfa Nasraoui

Olfa Nasraoui is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Louisville's Speed School of Engineering. She holds the Endowed Chair of E-commerce and serves as Founding Director of the Knowledge Discovery & Web Mining Lab. Her research focuses on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, with expertise in deep learning, web/text mining, recommender systems, and fairness/explainability in AI.

Her recent work emphasizes in-training explainability frameworks, robotic failure prediction, and multimodal crisis analysis. Publications highlight conversational AI, computational thinking in education, and interpretable clustering methods.

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Three-time Best Paper Award winner in machine learning and Fair AI
• Fellow of Executive Leadership for Academic Leadership in Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES)

She leads NSF-funded initiatives including the ATHENA ADVANCE program for faculty equity in STEM and the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site for Big Data. She has authored over 240 publications and 12 edited volumes, with active editorial roles in journals like Frontiers in Big Data and ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems.