Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa and a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is a Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute and Director of the Electronic Health Information Laboratory, focusing on privacy-enhancing technologies like synthetic data generation. He also serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Ontario’s IPC. Khaled has co-founded six data-focused companies, held senior roles at the National Research Council of Canada, and was head of the Quantitative Methods Group at Fraunhofer Institute. He participates in various advisory committees and is co-editor-in-chief of JMIR AI. He was previously ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software.