Fahiem Bacchus (March 16, 1957 – September 22, 2022) was a

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professor of

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at the

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and a fellow of the

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(2006).

Early life and career

Fahiem Bacchus was born in 1957. In 1979 he graduated with a

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degree in

from the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...

. After working in industry for a couple of years he returned to academic pursuits and in 1983 received a

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degree in

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from the

. A year later he returned to the University of Alberta and graduated from there with a Ph.D. in computer science in 1988. Immediately after graduation he became a postdoc at the

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and in July of the same year he became an assistant professor at the

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, achieving the rank of professor in 1999. He moved to the University of Toronto in 1999 and has been a professor in the department of computer science since then.

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* 1957 births Living people Canadian computer scientists University of Alberta alumni University of Toronto alumni University of Rochester faculty Academic staff of the University of Toronto Academic staff of the University of Waterloo Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Place of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-compu-bio-stub