Aseel Addawood

Aseel Addawood

Senior Advisory Director, Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Middle East, and Africa , Oracle.

Name in Arabic:
أسيل الداود
Nationality: Saudi
Country of Residence: Saudi Arabia
Nominate for Saudi Talents 2026

Aseel Addawood's Bio

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Senior Advisory Director, Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Oracle , since June 2024, Saudi Arabia.

She has been the founder of Bayan Platform since 2019, chairwoman of the same company's board of directors since January 2024, and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Committee at the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization since August 2023.

She has also been a member of TomouhCL since September 2019.

She held several positions at Oracle, including:

  • Leader of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Saudi Arabia between 2023 and 2024.
  • Chief Expert for the AI and Big Data Services Sector from 2021 to 2022.
  • Oracle Ambassador for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Saudi Arabia from 2020 to 2022.
  • Data Science and AI Consultant from 2020 to 2021.

She founded the ByTechs initiative, the Saytak team, which organizes tech events, and co-founded Sorterra Store.

She held several positions at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University , including: Assistant Professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences between 2019 and 2022, Lecturer between 2016 and 2019, and Assistant Professor between 2010 and 2015.

She also served as Director of the Emerging Technology Observatory at the Saudi Ministry of Energy in 2023, as an AI and Data Science Advisor at the same ministry between 2022 and 2023, and as an investor in the Riyadh Angel Investors Group between 2022 and 2023.

She was an angel investor at the WomenSpark Initiative from 2022 to 2023, worked as a consultant at the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority ( Monshaat ) from 2020 to 2021, was a student representative at ArabWIC in Saudi Arabia from 2016 to 2020, and was the network director at Women Who Code from 2017 to 2019.

She also founded the Computer and Information Club at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in 2010, and the Digital Minds Club at King Saud University in 2006, where she served as Head of Public Relations from 2006 to 2010. She also served as a visiting researcher at the Information Science Institute (ISI) in California, USA, in 2018, and as Vice President of the Saudi Club at Cornell University in the same country from 2011 to 2012.

She published a book titled "Renewed Birth" in 2020.

She holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States of America (2019), a Master's degree in Information Management from the same university (2018), a Master's degree in Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University in the United States (2013), and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from King Saud University (2010).

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