Albert Bifet is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Director of the Te Ipu o te Mahara AI Institute at University of Waikato, and Professor of Big Data at Data, Intelligence and Graphs (DIG) LTCI, Télécom Paris, IP Paris. He is co-chair of the NZ AI Researchers Association.
He is leading the TAIAO Environmental Data Science project, and he is co-leading the open source project MOA Massive On-line Analysis.
He is the co-author of a book on Machine Learning from Data Streams published at MIT Press. He is one of the winners of the best paper award at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) 2023, and he was the general co-chair of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) 2024