Suhayya Abu-Hakima

Suhayya "Sue" Abu-Hakima is a Canadian technology entrepreneur and inventor of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for wireless communication and computer security. As of 2020, her company Amika Mobile has been known as Alstari Corporation as she exited her emergency and communications business to Genasys in October 2020. Since 2007, she had served as President and CEO of Amika Mobile Corporation; she similarly founded and served as President and CEO of AmikaNow! from 1998 to 2004. A frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, AI, security, messaging and wireless, she has published and presented more than 125 professional papers and holds 48 international patents in the fields of content analysis, agents, context, messaging, and security. She has been an adjunct professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University and has mentored students in high school, undergraduate, and graduate school in science and technology more commonly known as STEM. She was named to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honor, in 2011 for innovation and her work in public safety and computer security technology. She also received the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal in 2012. She published her book Entrepreneur: Heretic or Hero of Innovation in 2024.

Early life and education

Suhayya Abu-Hakima was born in the Middle East and grew up in Montreal, where her father and mother were both professors at McGill University. She has five siblings. specializing in computers and communications. At Carleton University in Ottawa, she earned her honours master's degree in engineering in 1988 focussed on AI, submitting the thesis, "Rationale: A Tool for Developing Knowledge-based Systems that Explain by Reasoning Explicitly". She earned her honours PhD in artificial intelligence in 1994; her PhD thesis, "Automating Model Acquisition by Fault Knowledge Re-use: Introducing the Diagnostic Remodeler Algorithm", described a machine learning algorithm and was supervised by Professor Nick Dawes of the Computer and Systems Engineering Department and Professor Franz Oppacher of the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. Her pioneering AI publications and startup patents are still cited today, decades later. ==Career==

Career

Abu-Hakima began her career at Bell-Northern Research after receiving her bachelor's degree in 1982. In 1996 she co-invented a technology for unified messaging networks. In March 2007 Abu-Hakima co-founded another startup, Amika Mobile, in Ottawa. As of 2015, the company won more than two dozen international awards for its emergency mass notification systems. Amika Mobile has won the US GOVIES awards for 6 consecutive years 2015, 2016 and 2017 2018, 2019 and 2020 before the acquisition by Genasys Inc. Amika Mobile has also won the ASIS 2015 Judge's Choice and Best Security Product. In October 2020 Abu-Hakima co-founded her third tech start-up after 2 successful exits. Her new start-up is Alstari Corporation focussed on the ethical and secure use of AI for safety and security. ==Other activities==

Other activities

Abu-Hakima holds 48 international patents in content analysis, messaging, security and converged emergency alerts. and has published and presented more than 125 professional papers. She is active as a community volunteer and mentor. In Ottawa and Victoria, Canada, she is credited with the creation of more than 250 high tech jobs focussed on AI, messaging, content analysis, and security in both tech as well as business. In 2003 she was a member of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Women Entrepreneurs. She has mentored dozens of high school, undergraduate and graduate students for education and careers in science and technology. ==Honors and awards==

Honors and awards

In 2012 she was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, being noted as "a technology visionary and tireless volunteer". In January 2011 she was named to the Order of Ontario. ==Personal==

Personal

Abu-Hakima is the mother of two children. ==Selected bibliography==

Selected bibliography

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Selected patents

• "Alert Broadcasting to Unconfigured Communications Devices" (2013) (with Kenneth E. Grigg) • "Alert broadcasting to a plurality of diverse communications devices" (2012) (with Kenneth E. Grigg) • "Processing of network content and services for mobile or fixed devices" (2011) • "Auto-discovery of diverse communications devices for alert broadcasting" (2010) • "Concept Identification System and Method for Use in Reducing and/or Representing Text Content of an Electronic Document" (2004){{citation |url= • "Apparatus and method for context-based highlighting of an electronic document" (2004) • "Apparatus and method for interpreting and intelligently managing electronic messages" (2002) • "Concept-based message/document viewer for electronic communications and internet searching" (2003) ==References==

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