Saudi inventor.

She has been an assistant professor at Virginia Tech since August 2024.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America from 2022 to 2024, and an assistant professor at the College of Design at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University from 2021 to 2024.

She co-founded the Architectural Acoustics Association in Saudi Arabia and was selected by the Weill Building Institute International in 2022 to serve as an advisor among international experts to identify strategies to help shape the future of buildings that promote health and well-being.

She worked as a lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University between 2013 and 2014, as a teaching assistant at the same university between 2010 and 2013, as a project engineer at Saudi Aramco between 2008 and 2010, and as an architect at Zuhair Fayez & Associates in 2007.

She has obtained a Saudi and US patent for the design of sound diffusers inspired by the cymetics phenomenon, in addition to a LEED green building certification.

She also won the 2019 "Innovators Under 35" award from the MIT Technology Review Arabia platform, in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation , for her invention of the "Audio-Visual Diffusion System," which can reduce acoustic defects such as echo by applying visual audio shapes to it. She also received the "Excellence in Architectural and Environmental Research Award."

Her research and projects have been showcased at several international innovation fairs, including the development of an environmentally friendly sound-absorbing material, which was ranked among the most promising inventions at the ArtScience workshop in Paris.

She holds a PhD in Architectural Technology from the University of Michigan in the United States of America in 2021, a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Dammam in 2012, and a Bachelor's degree in Interior Architecture from King Faisal University in 2007.