About Me

 Work Experience

• AI and Data Analytics Advisor, Director of Emerging Technology Observersity

Ministry of Energy | Nov 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:

 -Building the Emerging Technology repository department.

- Building initiatives for supporting startups in AI for the energy sector.

- Build initiatives to empower the utilization of AI an emerging technology for the energy ecosystem.

• Senior Regional Consultant - Analytics, AI, and Data Science (META)

Oracle | September 2020 - August 2021

Responsibilities:

-Responsible for understanding customers' challenges that can be solved through analytics and AI.

-Building POCs for the customer to convey the power of Oracle technologies.

-Managing technical team for delivery.

-Setting up the scope of the work and the implementation

-AI and data science ambassador by delivering workshops, talks and judge in competitions.

-Member of the local innovation team, responsible for identifying emerging technologies use cases.

• Senior Cloud Engineer                                                                                                          

Oracle | September 2020 - August 2021

Responsibilities:

-Explore the best-fit Oracle solution for the customer

-Respond to RFPs

-AI and data science ambassador by delivering workshops, talks, and judging in competitions.

-Member of the local innovation team, responsible for identifying emerging technologies use cases.

-Setting up the scope of the work and the implementation

• Consultant

Monshaat | May 2020 - April 2021

Responsibilities:

-Help answer technical challenges for startups.

-Build the scope of technical startups.

-Create data-driven business,

• Founder             

Bayan Group | Feb 2019 - Present

Data science and Artificial intelligent organization. for more info: www.bayandata.sa

• Assistant Professor

Information System department, Imam Mohammad bin Saud University | August 2019- Dec 2022

Responsibilities:

-Teaching : Electronic commerce (Spring 2011) Information Strategic Planning & Resources Management (Spring 2011)

- Supervising graduation projects 

- Advising students activities

• Visiting Researcher 

Information Science Institute, University of Southern California | July 2018- September 2018

Worked on Twitter troll detection through deception linguistic markers.

Advised by: Emilio Ferrara and Kristina Lerman

• Teaching Assistant Lecturer                                                                                                                                                                             

Information System department, Imam Mohammad bin Saud University |   2010 - 2019

Responsibilities:

-Teaching : Electronic commerce, Information Strategic Planning & Resources Management

- Academic Advising, Advising for technical student club 

Certificates

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate. 2020

• Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Specialist. 2020

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Certified Associate. 2020

• Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) certificate. The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2018.

• Leadership certificate. The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2018.

• Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, King Saud University. 2011.

Awards

• Customer Advocate award, EMEA Technology Engineering Recognition Program, Oracle. 2021

• MAdhack Regional and final Winner (3rd) Oracle internal hackathon, 2020.

• ICWSM travel grant, 2019.

• Informatics travel grant, 2019.

• Arab Women In computing Scholarship, 2019.

• Women Techmakers Leads Summit, Google travel award, 2018.

• Google I/O Travel Award, 2018.

• CRA-W Travel Award, 2018.

• Women in Machine Learning Travel Award, 2017.

• Recruitment Scholarship, iSchool, 2017.

• Informatics travel grant, 2017.

• WiNLP travel grant, 2017.

• iSchool student travel award, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016.

• Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.

• Outstanding Achievement - Graduating from one of the Top Universities. Issuer: Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM), 2013.

• Awarded the faculty fellowship to study abroad from Imam Mohammad Bin Saud University, in 2011.

• Second class of honor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2010.

Membership

• Womenspark group.

• Riyadh Angel investor group.

• Tomouh.

• Google Women Techmakers.

• Data Science Discussion Group

• KACST ACM SIGCHI Chapter.

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

• Riyadh ACM SIGCHI Chapter.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Mentoring and Academic Advising

• BigSister in Project 1932 mentoring program. Noura Almusa, Remma Alsabt

• Advising IEEE-IMISIU chapter.

• Mentor as part of the Mentoring Program for MCIT Employees (Minister leadership Program).

• Trevor Moyer - Computer Science undergrad student.

• Yixin Zou- School of Media. (Accepted at University of Michigan, Information School Ph.D. program)

• Priyanka Balakumar - Computer Science undergrad student.

Skills

• Languages: Arabic –native, English – excellent speaking & writing (US citizen)

• Technical: Programming languages: Java, Python, R DBMS: Oracle, My SQL, My SQL server. Network Analysis Software: Gephi, ConText, NodeXL, WEKA. Web Programming: HTML –CSS, Ajax, JSP, Ruby.

Extracurricular Activities 

• Invited to attend  Grace Hopper Celebration, 2018 in Houston, TX.

• Invited to attend the International Women's Day celebrations from Google Women Techmakers in Chicago, IL, in 2018. 

• Cornell Educational Resources for International Studies (CERIS) Taught Arabic as an after-school program for a semester.

• Participated in IEEE workshops for promoting computer science careers for high school students, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Services

• PC member: MDT-ASONAM 2019, ArabWIC conference 19.

• I've been a sub-reviewer for ICWSM 2016, SBP-BRiMS 2016, 2017 and ASONAM 2017, 2018, CHI 2017, alt.chi 2018, ICCSS 2018.

• Grace Hopper (GHC17), (GHC18),(GHC19) Data science track committee member.

• Reviewing for Women In Machine Learning (WIML), 2017

Courses (taken in Ph.D.)

• Text Mining 

• Social Visualization

• Social Spaces: Signals+Media

• Network Analysis 

• Topics in Computational Linguistics

• Advanced Information Retrieval

• Social Spaces: Signals+Media

• Special Topics in Linguistics (Corpus Analysis)

• Data, Statistical Models, and Information 

• Research design

• Data storytelling

• Information Modelling

• Data Mining

• Data & Web Semantics