Ziad Kobti is a Professor and Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. His work focuses on advancing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science with applications in healthcare, cybersecurity, and social network analysis. He leads initiatives such as the Graph Neural Network Lab and collaborates with industry partners like Sterling Information Technologies to foster cybersecurity talent. Kobti has organized programming competitions, co-op education programs, and research workshops, emphasizing experiential learning for students. His research spans recommendation systems, graph neural networks, pandemic modeling, and medical diagnostics, with a focus on impactful real-world solutions. He is involved in academic leadership, program development, and community outreach through events like Computer Science Demo Day. Research interests include: Graph Neural Networks and Dynamic Link Prediction Recommender Systems and Anomaly Detection Social Network Analysis and Team Formation Healthcare Informatics and Medical Imaging Cybersecurity and Privacy Risk Analysis Machine Learning for Public Health and Pandemic Preparedness Recent projects include collaborations on AI-driven crop disease detection, electric vehicle research, and palliative care simulation frameworks. He has developed frameworks like UDIS and BeComE, and contributes to open-source tools for social network analysis and anomaly detection. His work integrates multi-disciplinary approaches, combining computational models with domain-specific expertise in healthcare, agriculture, and social systems.






