Fatmah Baothman is Saudi Arabian computer scientist who is the first woman in the Middle East with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence.[1] She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society.[2] Baothman has worked over 25 years as, and is currently, an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology[3][4] Baothman established the women's Department which is the foundation of the Computer Science College at King Abdulaziz University, and became the first teaching assistant faculty member.

Fatmah Baothman
Born
EducationUniversity of Huddersfield Ph.D.
Alma materThe University of Huddersfield
OccupationArtificial intelligence researcher
EmployerKing Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology
Known forThe first woman to receive VB AI award
Notable work
  • She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society
  • She became the first teaching assistant faculty member

Education and career

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In 2003, Baothman earned her Ph.D. from The University of Huddersfield, the School of Computing and Engineering in the United Kingdom.[5] Her AI dissertation is AI application in "phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic."[6] She was awarded with distinction in 2003.[6]

Baothman became the chairwoman of the IEEE Women in Engineering Western Region, established the King Abdulaziz University KAU IEEE chapter for women and the President of Women Engineers Committee at Women Engineers Committee at “Saudi Council of Engineering” western region.[7]

Books and articles

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  • Representing coarticulation processes in Arabic speech', co-authored with Michael Ingleby, S Boudelaa, 2006[8]
  • Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic, 2002 [9]
  • Comparative Study from Several Business Cases and Methodologies for ICT Project Evaluation, 2016for ICT project evaluation[citation needed] with her co-authors Farrukh Saleem, Naomie Salim, Abdulrahman H Altalhi, AL Abdullah, Zahid Ullah, Fatmah A Baothman, Muhammad Haleem Junejo.[10][11][12]
  • EMPTY NUCLEI IN ARABIC SPEECH PATTERNS AND THE DIACRITIC SUKU UN, co-authored with Michael Ingleby[13]
  • Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMs of spoken Arabic using CV units, coauthored with Michael Ingleby[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Who's Who: Fatmah Baothman, the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI". Arab News. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  2. ^ "Fatmah Baothman: First Arab Woman to Earn Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence". Al Bawaba. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  3. ^ "Fatmah Baothman". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  4. ^ "Meet the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI – Daily US News". thedailyusnews.com.
  5. ^ Team, Insights. "Forbes Insights: Dr. Fatmah Baothman: How Women Can Lead The Way Forward With AI". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  6. ^ a b "Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT". Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  7. ^ "Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT". Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  8. ^ Boudelaa, Sami (2006-02-22). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI, Cambridge, March 2002. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-8526-3.
  9. ^ Baothman, Fatmah bint Abdul Rahman (2002). Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic (Ph.D. thesis). University of Huddersfield.
  10. ^ Saleem, Farrukh; Salim, Naomie; Altalhi, Abdulrahman H; Ullah, Zahid; AL-Ghamdi, Abdullah AL-Malaise; Khan, Zahid Mahmood (2020-01-02). "Assessing the effects of information and communication technologies on organizational development: business values perspectives". Information Technology for Development. 26 (1): 54–88. doi:10.1080/02681102.2017.1335279. ISSN 0268-1102. S2CID 157857939.
  11. ^ AL-Ghamdi, Abdullah Saad AL-Malaise (January 1, 2017). Liu, Shaofeng (ed.). "A proposed model to measure the impact of business architecture". Cogent Business & Management. 4 (1): 1405493. doi:10.1080/23311975.2017.1405493. hdl:10419/206021.
  12. ^ Lindo, Oscar. "A Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Evaluation of ICT Investments" (PDF). www.fsma.edu.br. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  13. ^ Boudelaa, Sami (2006-02-22). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI, Cambridge, March 2002. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-8526-3.
  14. ^ Ingleby, M.; Baothman, F. (October 2014). "Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMS of spoken Arabic using CV units". 2014 Third IEEE International Colloquium in Information Science and Technology (CIST). pp. 254–259. doi:10.1109/CIST.2014.7016628. ISBN 978-1-4799-5979-2. S2CID 288857.
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