Rafid Mahmood is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management. From 2020-2022, he was a research scientist at the NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab. From 2019-2021, he was a Postgraduate Affiliate of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He received his BASc and MASc in Electrical Engineering, as well as his PhD in Industrial Engineering, all from the University of Toronto.

His research interests lie along two major themes: (1) can we build predictive and prescriptive models to automate decision-making; and (2) how can we better manage the data-centric pipelines needed to operationalize these models. This research targets applications in healthcare operations and large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as autonomous vehicles. He has published in OR journals (INFORMS Journal on Optimization, OR Letters), ML conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR), and medical journals (Medical Physics, Journal of Nutrition, Journal of Medical Systems).