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Dr. Hala Alshamlan

Information Technology,  King Saud University

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Dr. Hala Alshamlan is an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU). She is interested in data science and big data analytics. Dr. Hala's research focuses on bioinformatics, and especially on how applied artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning approaches can be used to analyze biological data. She has developed many novel algorithms that discover the cancer biomarker from genomic data. All these algorithms have been published in high-impact journals. In 2014, Dr.Hala was a visiting scholar invited by Prof. Mark Borodovsky in the Center of Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. She gained a Ph.D. in computer science from King Saud University in 2015. From 2016 to 2017, Dr. Hala was a Research Fellow at the Kamm Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.

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Dr. Hala Alshamlan is an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU). She is interested in data science and big data analytics. Dr. Hala's research focuses on bioinformatics, and especially on how applied artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning approaches can be used to analyze biological data. She has developed many novel algorithms that discover the cancer biomarker from genomic data. All these algorithms have been published in high-impact journals. In 2014, Dr.Hala was a visiting scholar invited by Prof. Mark Borodovsky in the Center of Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. She gained a Ph.D. in computer science from King Saud University in 2015. From 2016 to 2017, Dr. Hala was a Research Fellow at the Kamm Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.