Shadi is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Computing and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Queen’s University. He works on Cognitive and Big Data Analytics projects with both industrial and academic partners that involve text analytics, natural language understanding, machine learning and image analysis. He also teaches Data Analytic courses at the School of Computing. Shadi earned his PhD in 2017 with a specialization in distributed machine learning for Big Data from Queen’s University.