Khaled El Emam, PhD

Khaled El Emam

Dr. El Emam is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is a Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa. His lab is located at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, where he is leading the eHealth research program. Previously Khaled was a senior research officer at the National Research Council of Canada, where he was the technical lead of the Software Quality Laboratory, and prior to that he was head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

In 2003 and 2004, Khaled was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement, and ranked second in 2002 and 2005. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London (UK). Khaled has also (co)-founded two software companies that develop applications in the health sector. The most recent, Privacy Analytics Inc., is commercializing a powerful new anonymization technology that allows the safe disclosure, access, and sharing of personal information.