Khaled El Emam

Dr. Khaled El Emam is a professor at the University of Ottawa in the Faculty of Medicine and a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. He conducts research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including synthetic data generation and de-identification methods.

He is also a co-founder and Director at Replica Analytics, a company that develops data synthesis technology. As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded six companies involved with data management and data analytics. He is an investor in health technology companies and sits on a few boards.

In 2003 and 2004, he 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.

Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005 to 2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.