Biography:Fatmah Baothman

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Fatmah Baothman
Born
Saudi Arabia
EducationUniversity of Huddersfield (Ph.D.)
OccupationArtificial intelligence researcher
EmployerKing Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology

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 is 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.[5]

Education and career

In 2003, Baothman earned her Ph.D. from The University of Huddersfield, the School of Computing and Engineering in the United Kingdom.[5] Her dissertation consisted of an AI application in "phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic".[6] She was awarded with distinction in 2003.[6] In 2026, the University of Huddersfield announced that Baothman would receive an honorary doctorate in July 2026.[7]

Baothman became the chairwoman of the IEEE Women in Engineering Western Region. She also established the King Abdulaziz University KAU IEEE chapter for women and is the president of the Women Engineers Committee for the Saudi Council of Engineers western region.[8] In 2019, Baothman received the first-ever Women AI Award at the VB AI Summit.[9]

Books and articles

  • Representing coarticulation processes in Arabic speech', co-authored with Michael Ingleby, S Boudelaa, 2006[10]
  • Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic, 2002[11]
  • Comparative Study from Several Business Cases and Methodologies for ICT Project Evaluation, 2016 for ICT project evaluation with her co-authors Farrukh Saleem, Naomie Salim, Abdulrahman H Altalhi, AL Abdullah, Zahid Ullah, Fatmah A Baothman, Muhammad Haleem Junejo.[12][13][14]
  • EMPTY NUCLEI IN ARABIC SPEECH PATTERNS AND THE DIACRITIC SUKU UN, co-authored with Michael Ingleby[15]
  • Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMs of spoken Arabic using CV units, coauthored with Michael Ingleby[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Who: Fatmah Baothman, the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI" (in en). 2019-10-29. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1576286/saudi-arabia. 
  2. ↑ "Fatmah Baothman: First Arab Woman to Earn Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence" (in en). 2019-10-31. https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/fatmah-baothman-first-arab-woman-earn-phd-artificial-intelligence-1318398. 
  3. ↑ "Fatmah Baothman". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8RJlSuoAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  4. ↑ "Meet the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI – Daily US News". 31 October 2019. https://thedailyusnews.com/meet-the-first-woman-in-the-middle-east-with-a-phd-in-ai/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Forbes Insights: Dr. Fatmah Baothman: How Women Can Lead The Way Forward With AI" (in en). 2020-05-21. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insights-ibmai/2020/05/21/dr-fatmah-baothman-how-women-can-lead-the-way-forward-with-ai/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT" (in en-US). https://saudiiot.com/team/dr-fatmah-baothman/. 
  7. ↑ "Fatmah Baothman and Simon Iwaniszak to receive honorary degrees in July 2026" (in en). https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2026/may/baothman-iwaniszak-honorary-degrees-2026/. 
  8. ↑ "Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT" (in en-US). https://saudiiot.com/team/dr-fatmah-baothman/. 
  9. ↑ "Saudi Specialist in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Baothman, Wins Women AI Award" (in en-US). 2019-07-21. https://www.abouther.com/node/21156/people/leading-ladies/saudi-specialist-artificial-intelligence-dr-baothman-wins-women-ai. 
  10. ↑ Boudelaa, Sami (2006-02-22) (in en). 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd05AAAAQBAJ&q=info:xeXATTG9fEoJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA95. 
  11. ↑ Baothman, Fatmah bint Abdul Rahman (2002). Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic (Ph.D. thesis). University of Huddersfield.
  12. ↑ 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. 
  13. ↑ 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). doi:10.1080/23311975.2017.1405493. 
  14. ↑ Lindo, Oscar. "A Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Evaluation of ICT Investments". http://www.fsma.edu.br/si/edicao24/FSMA_SI_2019_2_Principal_01.pdf. 
  15. ↑ Boudelaa, Sami (2006-02-22) (in en). 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd05AAAAQBAJ&q=info:n2bMvPTVLuwJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA83. 
  16. ↑ 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. 



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