Fatmah Baothman
CEO of Al-Othaim Scientific Research, Development and Artificial Intelligence Company.
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Name in Arabic:
فاطمة باعثمان
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Nationality:
Saudi
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Country of Residence:
Saudi Arabia , Saudi Arabia
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Fatmah Baothman's Bio
CEO of Al-Othaim Scientific Research, Development and Artificial Intelligence Company since November 2023, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
She is the first Saudi woman specialized in artificial intelligence in the Middle East. She has also been the founder and chair of the board of directors of the Artificial Intelligence Society since January 2019, an associate professor of computer science at the College of Computing and Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University since August 2021, and a member of the World Future of Artificial Intelligence (WEF) Council.
She served as Director of the Apple Center, Director of the Education Sector at King Abdullah Economic City , and Deputy Director of the Information Technology Center at King Abdulaziz University . She co-founded the Computer Science Department at the same university and served as a member of the Digital Advisory Council at the World Government Summit.
She contributed to activating satellite lectures on artificial intelligence in cooperation with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Tokyo, placing Saudi Arabia on the map of scientific cooperation in the final report. She also contributed an article on this scientific achievement at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, and at the 50th anniversary celebration of artificial intelligence with the largest gathering of artificial intelligence scientists in the world. She also represented Saudi women and Saudi female academics in numerous international forums.
She won the "Global Women in AI Award" at the VB AI Talks Summit held in San Francisco in 2021, the first award given to women leaders in AI worldwide. She also won an award at the "Blockchain Investment Conference: Cryptographic Challenges" in the scientific research category in the United Kingdom. She has also received numerous shields of appreciation from several ministries and scientific bodies, including: a shield of excellence for a technical volunteer initiative using artificial intelligence on "Saudi International Volunteer Day" from the " Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development " for the " Artificial Intelligence Association ".
She translated the book "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New Perspective on Artificial Intelligence " into Arabic.
She holds a PhD in the field of applying artificial intelligence to automatic Arabic speech recognition in 2003 from the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom.




