Saudi academic, researcher and inventor.

She is an artificial intelligence researcher and a professor of distributed artificial intelligence at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University since March 2021. She has been a research fellow at the College of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America since 2017, and an advisor to the Ministry of Education since 2021.

She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEE Women in Engineering (WIE), the Computer Science, Information and Communications Engineering Society (ICST), and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).

She is the first Saudi woman to receive a US patent in the field of information and communications technology in 2013, a US patent for autonomous control of drone swarms in 2019, and another US patent for her invention of a smart electronic baggage claim system that protects against COVID-19 in 2021.

She was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, from 2015 to 2017, and an associate professor at the same university from 2017 to 2021. She was also a fellow in the Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, from 2014 to 2017, an associate fellow at the Arab British Academy for Higher Education, and a visiting researcher at the Wireless Networks and Communications Research Centre (WNCC) in the United Kingdom in 2011.

She also held several positions in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University , including: Assistant Professor between 2010 and 2015, Lecturer between 2004 and 2010, Teaching Assistant between 2003 and 2004 in the Computer Science Department, Vice Dean for Employment Services and Entrepreneurship between 2011 and 2013, Member of the Permanent Higher Committee for Development between 2013 and 2015, Vice Dean of the Computer Science Department during 2010, Vice Dean of the College of Computer and Information Sciences between 2004 and 2005, Member of the College Council between 2010 and 2013, Founder and Chair of the Computer Science Research Group between 2011 and 2015, Vice Dean for Employment Services and Entrepreneurship between 2011 and 2013, and Head of the Computer Science Department for Women between 2010 and 2011.

She won first place and the "Best Innovation Award" from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2015, the "Best Scientific Paper Award" at the Science and Information Conference in London in 2013, and the Research Excellence Shield from the Cultural Attaché of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2010.

She holds a PhD in Network and Communications Engineering, specializing in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, from Brunel University in the United Kingdom in 2010, a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2003 from King Saud University, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications in 1999 from the same university, and a Diploma in Developing Academic Practices in Higher Education from Brunel University in 2010. She also holds a Leadership and Management for Executives Certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015, a Strategic Planning and Innovation for Executives Certificate from MIT in 2015, a Kaufman Certificate in University Teaching in 2015, a Human Resources Management Certificate from Harvard University in the United States in 2015, and a Quality Review Certificate from the American Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).