Hussein A. Abbass is an Egyptian researcher into artificial intelligence and professor at the University of New South Wales.

[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).