Dr. Amayri earned her doctorate in Electrical & Computer Engineering and master’s degree in Information Systems Security from Concordia University in Montreal, where she worked on statistical models, text classification, and machine learning. Of note, her machine learning research in spam filtering received attention from media outlets all across the world.
Prior to teaching at DigiPen, she was a postdoctoral fellow at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. Her postdoc included working on different research projects for the Smart Cities initiative, where her machine learning algorithms were developed and applied.