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Dr. Imane Boudellioua

Assistant Professor, KFUPM

Dr. Imane Boudellioua is an Assistant Professor in the Information and Computer Science Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and one of the founding female faculty members at KFUPM. She holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where she was awarded KAUST Discovery Scholarship, KAUST MSc/PhD Fellowship, and KAUST Provost Award. She is the recipient of 2020 KACST-AlMarai Prize for Scientific Creativity for her PhD thesis on machine learning methods for the prioritization of candidate causative genomic variants of Mendelian and oligogenic diseases. She is also one of the winners of KAUST TAQADAM Accelerator Program for her startup, GenomeFit, providing AI-empowered genetic diagnostics services. Her research interests are in computational genomics, and the application of machine learning and data mining in the biomedical field.