Coordinator

• Dr. Ghada Badr: Assistant professor, CS.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data-Mining, Machine Learning, Big-Data,
Machine Translation, Heuristic Search approaches, Information Retrieval and text pattern recognition.
Webpage :http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/ghbadr

Steering Committee Members

•Dr. Isra Al-Turaiki: Lecture, IT.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data Mining.
Webpage: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/isra.alturaiki
•Hessah Alraqibah: TA, CS.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data Mining In Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Tools Development.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/halraqibah
•Najd A. AlMouh: Researcher, King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
•Arwa Alturki: TA, CS.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/aralturki

Faculty

•Dr. Hasssan Mathkour: Professor, CS, Dean of CCIS.
Webpage:http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/mathkour
•Dr. Alaaeldin M. Hafez: Professor, IS.
Research Interests: Database and data mining.
Webpage: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/ahafez
•Dr. Achraf Elallali: Assistant professor, CS,
Research Interests: Bioinformatics.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/aelallali
•Dr. Areej Al-Wabil: Assistant professor, SW, Vice Head Of Software Engineering Department.
Webpage: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/areejalwabil
•Dr. Manar Hosny: Assistant professor, CS.
Research Interests: Heuristic, Meta-Heuristic Algorithms.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/mifawzi
•Dr. Abir Benabid: Assistant professor, SW.
Research Interests: Optimization, Heuristics And Meta-Heuristics Algorithms.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/abbenabid
•Dr. Hafida Benhidour: Assistant professor, CS.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/hbenhidour
•Dr. Rabia Jafri Ali: Assistant professor, IT.
Research Interests: Pattern Recognition.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/rjafri
•Dr. Souad Larabi: Assistant professor, IT.
Research Interests: Intelligent Systems.
Webpages: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/smariesainte
•Dr. Sanaa Ghouzali: Assistant professor, IT.
Research Interests: Pattern Detection And Recognition, Computer Vision, Data Classification,
Machine Learning, Biometrics, Biometric Security And Protection.
Webpage: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/sghouzali
•Nora Al-Mohanna: Lecturer, IT.
Webpage: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/al-mohanna
•Wejdan Al-kaldi: Lecturer, IT.
Webpage: http://staff.ksu.edu.sa/faculty/walkaldi
•Amani AlAjlan: Lecturer, IT.
Webpage:http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/Amani_AlAjlan
•Hala AL-Shamlan: Lecturer, IT.
Webpage:http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/eman_alattas
•Eman Alattas: Lecturer, IT.
Webpage:http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/alshamlan
•Noura Al-Omar: TA, SW.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/nnalomar/home
•Nora Aldahash: TA, SW.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/naldahash/home
•Nuha AlTayyash: TA, IT.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
•Shatha AlTammami: TA, IS.
•Eman Alblali: TA, CS.
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Heuristics and Meta-Heuristics, Bioinformatics, Data Mining. Combinatorial Optimization.
Webpage: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/ealbilali

Researchers

• Mrs Rana AbuNafisa: Research assistant

Graduate Students

•Eman Azaid: Ph.D student
•Amal Alghamdi: Ph.D student
•Al-Hanouf Al-Amr: Master student
•Aseel AlHadlaq: Master student
•Ruwayda Qasem Alharbi: Master student
•Amjad Mohammed: Master student
•Hind Saad Annahidh: Master student
•Mashael Al-Omany: Master student
•Maha Aldosari: Master student
•Diana Alomari: Master student
•Bushra Al-Besher: Master student
•Furat Altukhim: Master student

Undergraduate Students

•Monirah Al-Ajlan.
•Nada Al Zahrani.
•Aljawharah Al-Hassan.
•Ashwag Al-Fawaz.
•Ebtisam Al-Ghamdi.
•Rand Al-Brahim.
•Rawabi Al-Sharif.
•Haneen Oqailan.
•Sara Al-Harthi.
•Sarah Alhozaimy.
•Sara AlKathiri.
•Reem Aldosari.
•Sarah Al-Dossari.
•Doaa hakami.
•Fatimah Al-yami.
•Elham Ahmad
•Rasha Alharbi

Affiliated Members

•Dr. Marcel Turcotte: Associate professor.
Affiliation: Ottawa University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics and computational biology,
algorithm design and data structures and applied machine learning and computational intelligence.
Webpage: https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~turcotte

•Dr. Mona Alwhibi: Assistant professor,
Affiliation: Department of Botany and Microbiology.

•Dr. Nagwan AbdelSamee: Assistant professor.
Affiliation: Princess Noura University.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics.

•Dr. Tala M. Bakheet: Postdoctoral fellow
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biomedicine Program (KFSH&RC).

•Dr. Sherif Sakr: Associate professor.
Affiliation: Dammam University.
Research Interests: Cloud Computing, Database Systems, Distributed Systems.

•Dr. Intikhab Alam: Research scientist
Affiliation: Computational BioScience Research Center at KAUST.
Research Interests: bioinformatics using High Performance Computing (HPC),
Next Generation sequence (NGS) based Genome/Meta-genome Assembly and Annotation,
ncRNA analysis, Comparative Genomics, Functional Genomics, data-warehouse development.
Webpage: http://cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/cbrcweb/home

•Dr. Dilek Colak: Researcher
Affiliation: Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing Department (KFSH&RC).
Research Interests: development and application of computational and statistical methods
for the analysis of biomedical and genomic data, microarray and
next-generation sequencing analysis, statistical and computational genomics,
computational electromagnetics, data mining, systems biology, bioinformatics,
computational biology, and cancer genomics.

•Dr. Mohamed Abouelhoda: Associate professor
Affiliation:Centre for Information Science, Nile University.
Research Interests: Analysis And Management Of Large Biological Data,
High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing.
Webpage: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed_Abouelhoda