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.