Amine Bensaid

Amine Bensaid is a university professor of computer science; he has been president of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) since November 2019. He served as president of Mundiapolis University in Casablanca between 2011 and 2019. In November 2022, he was appointed as a member of Morocco’s Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research. He’s currently serving on the Boards of the American Council for Independent Colleges (CIC), of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (the Fulbright Commission in Morocco, where he’s currently Chairman of the Board), and of Morocco’s agency for evaluation and quality assurance (ANEAQ). He’s also a member of Morocco’s national commission for higher education (CNCES).

Bensaid holds a B.S. in information systems, an M.S. in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of South Florida (USF). He’s held research assignments at the Technical University of Delft and at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a faculty member at AUI from 1994 to 2009, where he served as Program Coordinator, Dean of Engineering, then VP for Academic Affairs and Research. He was a UNDP expert on quality assurance (2002-2007).

As a computer scientist, his research and publications have been in the Artificial Intelligence areas of fuzzy pattern recognition and data mining. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics from 1999 to 2010. He was a member of the founding team of MAScIR (Moroccan foundation for Scientific Innovation & Research) then served as advisor to its Chairman and CEO. His current interests focus is on the role of higher education for employability and thriving of the new generation in the fast-changing 21st century world.

Bensaid is a Fulbright Scholar a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, Tau Beta Pi American honor societies.