Fares Fourati is a Ph.D. student at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini.
Biography
Fares Fourati is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His work has been published in leading AI and machine learning venues, including ICML, AAAI, AISTATS, EMNLP, and ECAI.
He has received several distinctions, including consecutive CEMSE Dean’s List Awards, first place in the ACM-SIAM Student Competition (2024), and first place at the Marconi Society Connectivity Summit (2021). Fares earned his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from École Polytechnique de Tunisie in 2020 and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from KAUST in 2022.
In addition to his research, he has been actively involved in teaching and mentoring in AI and machine learning at KAUST and across Saudi Arabia. He is also the author of To What End? Meditations on AI and Humanity, reflecting his broader interest in the philosophical implications of AI.
Research Interests
Fares' research focuses on reinforcement learning, deep learning, large language models, and optimization, with an emphasis on advancing the foundations of intelligent systems.
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Selected Publications
- Fourati, F., Quinn, C. J., Alouini, M. S., & Aggarwal, V. (2024, March). Combinatorial Stochastic-Greedy Bandit. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 38, No. 11, pp. 12052-12060).
- Fourati, F., Aggarwal, V., Quinn, C., & Alouini, M. S. (2023, April). Randomized greedy learning for non-monotone stochastic submodular maximization under full-bandit feedback. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (pp. 7455-7471). PMLR.
- Fourati, F., & Alouini, M. S. (2021). Artificial intelligence for satellite communication: A review. Intelligent and Converged Networks, 2(3), 213-243.
Awards and Distinctions
- Dean’s List Awards 2025, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 2025
- Dean’s List Awards 2024, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 2024
- First Place in the Poster Competition, ACM/SIAM Student Chapter, 2024
Education
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2022
- Diplôme d'Ingénieur
- Engineering, École Polytechnique de Tunisie (ETP), Tunisia, 2020
Related People
Principal Investigators
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
- Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering