Jamil Fayyad - Senior Data Scientist

Jamil Fayyad

Senior Data Scientist -Kinsol

PhD - University of British Columbia

About Me

Hello! I'm Jamil Fayyad, currently a Senior Data Scientist at Kinsol. I completed my Postdoctoral fellowship at the Advanced Control and Intelligence Systems (ACIS) Lab at the University of Victoria (UVic). I also worked as an artificial intelligence consultant for multiple engineering firms, including TerraSense and Nexera Robotics. My research and teaching are centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision (CV), and robotics.

I completed my PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where I focused on domain generalization, out-of-distribution detection, and uncertainty quantification in computer vision.

Research Areas

  • Bias mitigation and Fair AI
  • Domain Generalization
  • Continual Learning
  • Uncertainty quantification

Education

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering
    University of British Columbia
  • MSc in Mechatronics Engineering
    American University of Sharjah
  • BSc in Electrical Engineering
    American University of Sharjah

Latest News

Sep, 2025

Received the Best Paper Award (3rd Place) for our work "Foundation Models as Class-Incremental Learners for Dermatological Image Classification" at the MICCAI EMERGE Workshop

Aug, 2025

Our paper "BiasPruner: Mitigating Bias Transfer in Continual Learning for Fair Medical Image Analysis" has been accepted in the Medical Image Analysis journal (Impact Factor: 11.8)

July, 2025

Two papers are accepted at ISIC and EMERGE workshops, MICCAI 2025

October, 2024

I joined Kinsol as a Senior Data Scientist

October, 2024

Debiasify: Self-Distillation for Unsupervised Bias Mitigation" is accepted at WACV2025

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision.

October, 2024

BiasPruner is awarded the Best Health Equity Paper, Honourable Mention for the Women in MICCAI Best Oral Presentation Award, and short listed for the MICCAI Best Paper Award

Wednesday, October 9, MICCAI 2024 main conference.

October, 2024

Our paper "Sim-to-Real Domain Adaptation for Deformation Classification" was recently presented at SMC

Tuesday, October 8, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

September, 2024

Our paper BiasPruner was selected for an oral presentation

The presentation is on Tuesday, October 8, MICCAI 2024 main conference.

June, 2024

Our paper "The Effectiveness of State Representation Model in Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent Path Finding" is accepted

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)

May, 2024

Our paper "BiasPruner: Debiased Continual Learning for Medical Image Classification" is early accepted

The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI 2024)

May, 2024

Our paper "Empirical validation of Conformal Prediction for trustworthy skin lesions classification" is accepted

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine