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Acting Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) Distinguished Professor of Biological and Environmental Science King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
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Elmootazbellah Elnozahy is currently the Dean of the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.
With a collective mission at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to drive cutting-edge research, innovation, and to create local/global impact through applied sciences, KAUST has launched a new strategic initiative in the field of “Smart Health”.
Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Division at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.
The rise of genomics technologies over the past two decades has enabled the high-throughput interrogation of the entire human genetic complement.
Dr Malak Abed AlThagafi is an American board certified physician-scientist in Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Neuropathology, and Molecular Genetics Pathology.
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Professor of Medical Informatics at The College of Medicine, King Saud University
This session will touch base on the evolving role of healthcare informatics and how it will transform and reshape healthcare from current curative perspective towards prevention and managing large scale populations, with notion to the current transformative care delivery in our local context, to ensure seamless health and care starting from a personalized care extending to population health management.
Clinical Informatics champion at Epic EMR project in KFMC and member of the Electronic Medical Record leadership and management teams.
The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interactions has opened new opportunities for research, healthcare innovation, and health policy.
Prof. Richard Hobbs is Nuffield Professor of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, and Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Every day, data are being generated in healthcare by hospitals. In today’s medicine, the majority of patient’s data are generated inside clinical facilities. Providers then utilize data in order to make conclusions and make decisions for patients.
Dr. Nasser Aljehani is a Family Medicine Physician and Clinical Informatician at King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Chief Medical Officer of Wateen
Broad and Deep Learning of Big Heterogeneous Health Data for Precision Medicine
Dr. Tseng has a wide variety of research interests covering data mining, machine learning, biomedical informatics, mobile sensing technologies.
The Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology is unique in its ability to deliver ultra-long single-molecule reads of DNA and RNA. Nanopore sequencing can be done in real-time on a portable device, which makes it an attractive platform for personalized genome medicine.
Mo Li received his Ph.D. in cellular biology from the University of Georgia.
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Acting Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) Distinguished Professor of Biological and Environmental Science King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
Dr. Nasser Aljehani is a Family Medicine Physician and Clinical Informatician at King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Robert Hoehndorf is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal.
Professor of Medical Informatics at The College of Medicine, King Saud University
Dr Malak Abed AlThagafi is an American board certified physician-scientist in Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Neuropathology, and Molecular Genetics Pathology.
Dr. Attiga holds a PhD in Oncology from the George Washington University in DC, USA. She is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and a Project management professional (PMP).
Chief Medical Officer of Wateen
Our research focuses on how plants can survive under abiotic or biotic stress conditions. For this purpose, we isolated more than 2500 beneficial microbes and currently investigate their potential to help grow crops in arid regions of the world (www.darwin21.org).
Heribert Hirt received his B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Cape Town in 1979
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With over 10 years of experience across both academia and industry, Babar started his career as a scientist with a passion for business.
Domestication is anthropogenic evolution that fulfills mankind’s critical food demand
Hajime Ohyanagi is a research specialist at KAUST
Microalgae are globally important primary producers that use light energy and CO2 to generate biomass and valuable bio-products.
Prof. Kyle Lauersen's group focuses on Sustainable and Synthetic Biotechnology with their main research focussed on engineering algae to be green cell factories.
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High-throughput sequencing technologies revolutionized medical genomic research, which enabled us to proceed “sequence-based medicine”. Endometriosis is a common disease affecting about 8 % of women, also might develop ovarian cancer in some cases.
Prof. Ituro INOUE is a professor of medical science
"DNA makes RNA makes protein." To meet the demands of complex organism development and the appropriate response to environmental stimuli, every step in these processes needs to be finely regulated
Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree from Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics.
Glioma, one of the most lethal human malignancies, represents almost 80% of malignant brain tumors and exhibits low resection rate and high recurrence risk. With the rapid advancement of sequencing technologies, there is an increasing number of high-throughput studies on glioma, resulting in massive multi-omics multi-cohort data generated from different projects and different laboratories throughout the world.
Dr. Zhang is a distinguished Professor of Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Executive Director of the National Genomics Data Center in BIG, CAS.
Digital Health is a conglomerate of several complementary advancements in computational sciences, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analysis, the OMICS fields as well as biomedical technologies with the overall aim to improve the health of individuals and the society’s well-being.
Charlotte A. E. Hauser is a professor of Bioscience, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal.
Considerable evidence suggests that during the progression of complex diseases, the deteriorations are not necessarily smooth but are abrupt, and may cause a critical transition from one state to another at a tipping point. Here, we develop a model-free method to detect early-warning signals of such critical transitions (un-occurred diseases), even with only a small number of samples.
Luonan Chen is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
There is a fair amount of hope, if not hype, to the extent that computational techniques can transform our understanding of biology, early discovery of disease, and augmenting health. This includes improved access to healthcare, tools for supporting a healthy lifestyle, and enabling research tools for the clinician as well as for the fundamental life-scientist.
Professor at KAUST since August 2016. Head of the Living Systems Laboratory, affiliated with the programs in Bioscience, Computer Science, Bioengineering, and Statistics at KAUST
In this talk, I will discuss the use of natural language processing methods to read scientific literature and learn the implicit features that cause certain genetic mutations to be pathogenic.
Dr. Hammad Naveed is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan.
Knowledge representation is a sub-field of AI which studies how to represent information about a domain so that is can be utilized for a wide range of tasks.
Robert Hoehndorf is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal.
Cellulolytic microorganisms are considered as a key player in various environments to degrade the plant biomass. Cellulases are used in various applications in industries like biofuels, food and beverages and medical applications.
Ph.D graduate from KAUST (2019)
Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most urgent threats to global health, as more drugs are losing sensitivity to bacterium they were designed to kill. When investigating it, researchers usually need to identify and annotate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) from environmental or clinical samples.
Yu Li is a Ph.D. student of KAUST, majoring in Computer Science (CS), under the supervision of Prof. Xin Gao
Digital health (DH) holds many promises for the future of healthcare both in Saudi Arabia and other countries around the world. However, looking at the implementation of DH, as for example electronic medical records, it remains challenging to achieve the promised goals.
Pieter is a PhD student at Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Digital health (DH) is an important topic these days since it provides a lot of help to the smart world that we are approaching. This study contributes to digital health on different levels by introducing methods based on machine learning (ML).
Manal Kalkatawi completed her M.S. in 2011 and her PhD in 2017 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Computer Science focusing on Bioinformatics, Data mining, and Machine/Deep learning.
In natural language processing, one of the big questions that remain open is “what is the optimal approach to embed our natural language in a vector space?”, which essentially transforms words into series of numbers. Ideally, the numbers should represent semantic meaning.
Christophe Van Neste is a postdoctoral fellow at KAUST, specialized in cellular and genetic biotechnology.
Predicting the phenotypes resulting from molecular perturbations is one of the key challenges in genetics. Both forward and reverse genetic screen are employed to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypes and disease, and these resulted in a large number of genotype-phenotype association being available for humans and model organisms.
Maxat Kulmanov is a Ph.D. student at KAUST under Prof. Robert Hoehndorf
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Acting Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) Distinguished Professor of Biological and Environmental Science King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (KAUST)