Hussein A. Abbass is an Egyptian researcher into artificial intelligence and professor at the University of New South Wales. He joined the university in 2000 and became a professor in 2007.^[1] He is known for his research into the language Jingulu and its uses for artificial intelligence.^[2][3][4] He is the founder and first editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Artificial Intelligence journal. Abbass was made a fellow of the IEEE in 2020 "for contributions to evolutionary learning and optimization".^[5][6]

In the past, Abbass served as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's vice-president of technical activities from 2016 to 2019 and the President of the Australian Society for Operations Research (2017-2019).^[1][5] He was a visiting fellow at Imperial College London (2003), visiting professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005), visiting professor at National Defence Academy, Japan (2013) and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (2014).^[1]

• Green, David; Abbass, Hussain and Liu, Jing: Dual Phase Evolution. Springer, 2013. ISBN 9781441984234
• Abbass, Hussain: Computational Red Teaming. Springer, 2014. ISBN 9783319082813
• Liu, Jing; Abbass, Hussain and Chen Tan, Kay: Evolutionary Computation and Complex Networks. Springer, 2018. ISBN 9783319600000
• Tang, Jiangjun; Green, David and Abbass, Hussain: Simulation and Computational Red Teaming for Problem Solving. Wiley, 2019. ISBN 9781441984234