Sachi Arafat

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Domain of Research: Intelligent Systems,Artificial Intelligence,Artificial Neural Networks,Bayesian networks,Big Data,Data Mining,Data Retrieval and Data Mining,Data Science,Human Computer Interaction,Information Retrieval,Social Computing

Biography: Dr. Sachi Arafat is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia. His research lay at the intersection of data science and philosophy of science & technology. He previously worked on quantum theory inspired models for characterizing socio-technical behaviour while a Royal Academy of Engineering  Research Fellow at the School of Computing at the University of Glasgow (UK). His monograph “Search Foundations” (co-authored with E. Ashoori) with MIT Press (2019), was nominated for best book in information science (in 2020) by the Association for Information Science and Technology. Therein was proposed a new kind of science—inspired by the work on Heidegger and the classical philosophical tradition—for re-basing data and information science on rigorous philosophical foundations in order to create an explicitly explanatory science of AI from the ground-up for understanding technology-mediated experience.