​I am an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Information Technology department. I completed my M.S. in 2011 and my PhD in 2017 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Computer Science focusing on Bioinformatics, Data mining, and Machine/Deep learning. 

I have extensive experience in genome analysis, genomic signals recognition, and genomic sequences data extraction and processing. I have been heavily involved in designing methods and supporting systems using machine/deep learning algorithms to be applied to genomic signals recognition, genome annotation, and genome assembly. I worked on human (Homo sapiens), mouse (Mus musculus), cow (Bos taurus), fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) genomes. Moreover, I have developed and been involved in some bioinformatics tools: DeepGSR, Dragon PolyA Spotter, INDIGO, BEACON, and Omni-PolyA.

Also, I have worked on applying deep learning in Arabic sentiment analysis and recognition of breast cancer images. Details can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YJgNij8AAAAJ&hl=en