Besma Abidi, Ph.D., serves as the Sr. Director of Engineering at Empower AI, a position she has held since 2024. With over 30 years of experience, her expertise spans research, development, prototyping, product design, project and budget management, and proposal writing in the fields of computer vision, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), system integration, and edge compute. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Vision and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering.

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