Jamil Fayyad
Senior Data Scientist - Kinsol
PhD - University of British Columbia
About Me
Hello! I'm Jamil Fayyad, a Senior Data Scientist at Kinsol. I work on vision-language models (VLMs), large language models (LLMs), and generative AI, with an emphasis on building intelligent systems that connect perception, reasoning, and decision support.
My broader research interest is trustworthy perception in the real world: how models generalize beyond training distributions, detect out-of-distribution scenarios, and quantify uncertainty. I completed my PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in computer vision, and later held a 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 engineering firms including TerraSense and Nexera Robotics, where I contributed to robotic perception and computer vision systems deployed in challenging, real-world environments.
Research Areas
- Robotic perception
- VLMs and multimodal learning
- Domain generalization
- Uncertainty quantification
Education
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PhD in Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia -
MSc in Mechatronics Engineering
American University of Sharjah -
BSc in Electrical Engineering
American University of Sharjah