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Opening Remarks

Elmootazbellah Elnozahy

Elmootazbellah Elnozahy is currently the Dean of the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Luonan Chen

Luonan Chen is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Prof. Richard Hobbs

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.

Dr. Malak Abedalthagafi

Dr Malak Abed AlThagafi is an American board certified physician-scientist in Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Neuropathology, and Molecular Genetics Pathology.

Prof. Ituro Inoue

Prof. Ituro INOUE is a professor of medical science

Prof. Heribert Hirt

Heribert Hirt received his B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Cape Town in 1979

Prof. Pierre J. Magistretti

Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Division at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.

Guest Speakers

Prof. Zhang Zhang

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.

Prof. Wei Chen

Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree from Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics.

Dr. Babar Khan

With over 10 years of experience across both academia and industry, Babar started his career as a scientist with a passion for business.

Prof. Vincent S. Tseng

Dr. Tseng has a wide variety of research interests covering data mining, machine learning, biomedical informatics, mobile sensing technologies.

Dr. Hammad Naveed

Dr. Hammad Naveed is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan.

Mohammed Alhefzi

Clinical Informatics champion at Epic EMR project in KFMC and member of the Electronic Medical Record leadership and management teams.

KAUST Speakers

Prof. Charlotte A. E. Hauser

Charlotte A. E. Hauser is a professor of Bioscience, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal.

Prof. Mo Li

Mo Li received his Ph.D. in cellular biology from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Hajime Ohyanagi

Hajime Ohyanagi is a research specialist at KAUST

Prof. Kyle Lauersen

Prof. Kyle Lauersen's group focuses on Sustainable and Synthetic Biotechnology with their main research focussed on engineering algae to be green cell factories.

Prof. JESPER TEGNÉR

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

Student Speakers

Yu Li (Ph.D. student)

Yu Li is a Ph.D. student of KAUST, majoring in Computer Science (CS), under the supervision of Prof. Xin Gao

Pieter Vandekerckhove (Ph.D. student)

Pieter is a PhD student at Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Siham Fatani

Ph.D graduate from KAUST (2019)

Maxat Kulmanov

Maxat Kulmanov is a Ph.D. student at KAUST under Prof. Robert Hoehndorf

Christophe Van Neste

Christophe Van Neste is a postdoctoral fellow at KAUST, specialized in cellular and genetic biotechnology.

Manal Kalkatawi

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.

Panel Discussion Members

Prof. Robert Hoehndorf

Robert Hoehndorf is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal.

Dr. Nasser Aljehani

Dr. Nasser Aljehani is a Family Medicine Physician and Clinical Informatician at King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Ahmed Albarrak

Professor of Medical Informatics at The College of Medicine, King Saud University

Dr. Tamim Alganam

Master of biomedical informatics from Harvard University

Dr. Ahmad Alonazi, MD

Chief Medical Officer of Wateen

Co-Moderator Panel Discussion

Prof. Takashi Gojobori

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. Fadwa Attiga, Ph.D.

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).