Pakistani Woman Listed Among Canada’s Top 25 Women in Artificial Intelligence

Maria Abrar, a Pakistani woman, is ranked number 10 on ReWork's list of Canada's top 25 women in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. ReWork is a creator of material related to artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning.

Maria Abrar, a woman of Pakistani origin, is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta's Reality Labs in Toronto and has extensive experience in her industry for 14 years.

She has taught a group of data scientists throughout her career and has provided her skills to many nations, including Pakistan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Russia, Italy, and Canada.

She has also developed future roadmaps and business strategies while working extensively with marketers, product managers, and other relevant professionals to use data science output for Above The Line (ATL) and Below The Line (BTL) marketing campaigns.

She also has extensive experience building product recommendation engines, estimating customer usage patterns and revenue, and conducting in-depth behavioral segmentation.

Here is the complete list of ReWork’s Top 25 Women in Canada’s AI:

Rank	Name	Profession	Organization
1.	Doina Precup	Research Team Lead	DeepMind
2.	Joelle Pineau	Director	Meta AI Research Labs
3.	Sharon Shahrokhi Tehrani	Product Manager (Machine Intelligence Retention)	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
4.	Hakimeh Purmehdi	Senior Data Scientist	Ericcson
5.	Natalia Bailey	Research Manager	FinRegLab
6.	Jekaterina Novikova	Director of Machine Learning	Winterlight Labs
7.	Helene Deschamps Marquis	Partner, Data Privacy and Cyber Security Law	Deloitte Legal
8.	Nataliya Portman	Senior Data Scientist	Cineplex Digital Media
9.	Frincy Clement	Ambassador for Canada and Manager (Data Science and Analytics)	TELUS Business
10.	Maria Abrar	Senior Data Scientist	Meta’s Reality Labs
11.	Shiyamali Paranirupasingam	Lead and Founder	L’Amour Pearls
12.	Paige Dickie	Head of AI	Layer 6
13.	Mehrnaz Shokrollahi	Senior Data Scientist	PureFacts
14.	Sedef Akinli Kocak	Director (Professional Development)	Vector Institute
15.	Olga Tsubiks	Director (Strategic Analytics and Data Science)	Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
16.	Serena McDonnell	Lead Data Scientist and Quant Researcher	Delphia
17.	Yuanhui Lang	Director (Data Science and Advanced Analytics)	Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
18.	Shingai Manjengwa	Director (Technical Education)	Vector Institute
19.	Angela Schoellig	Assistant Professor (Robotics)	University of Toronto (UoT)
20.	Roxana Sultan	Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Vice President (VP) (Health)	Vector Institute
21.	Sanja Fidler	Associate Professor and VP of AI Research	UoT and NVIDIA
22.	Raquel Urtasun	Professor and Founder & CEO	UoT and Waabi
23.	Anna Goldenberg	Senior Scientist (Genetics and Genome Biology)	SickKids
24.	Foteini Agrafioti	Chief Science Office (CSO) and Head	RBC and Borealis AI
25.	Gillian Hadifeld	Director and Professor	Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRITS) and UoT