A postdoctoral research associate at the Donald Bern School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Email: kelanizeyad@gmail.com
Website: zeyadkelani.xyz
With a wealth of experience in the areas of Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications, and Political Strategy, Dr. Zeyad Elkelani builds and deploys AI, and predictive models, using online/offline data. Dr. Elkelani is currently leading AI-driven research projects on Spatial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies at the Donald Bern School of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI. Prior to this position, he was a senior Data Science fellow at the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab at Claremont McKenna College. Elsewhere, he is a faculty member in his home country at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, Egypt.
His research interests include political strategy, political economy, decision theory, AI, and computational and mathematical modeling.
Dr. ElKelani is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) grant, a former United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) fellow and was previously an honorary Ambassador for the distinguished Shafik Gabr foundation East-West initiative.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Analytics and World Politics from Claremont Graduate University. He owns a master's degree in applied data science from Claremont Graduate University in addition to another master's in political science from the American University in Cairo. He has co-authored publications on political economy, middle east strategy, and AI.
