Fatmah Baothman is

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

who is the first woman in the Middle East with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence. She is the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society. Baothman has worked over 25 years as, and is currently, an assistant professor at

King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University (KAU) () is a public research university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1967 as a private university by a group of businessmen led by Muhammad Bakhashab and including author Hamza Bogary, it was named after ...

Faculty of Computing & Information Technology Baothman established the women's Department which is the foundation of the Computer Science College at

, and became the first teaching assistant faculty member.

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. Her dissertation consisted of an AI application in "phonology-based automatic

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also ...

for Arabic". She was awarded with distinction in 2003. Baothman became the chairwoman of the IEEE Women in Engineering Western Region. She also established the

KAU IEEE chapter for women and is the president of the Women Engineers Committee for the Saudi Council of Engineers western region. In 2019, Baothman received the first-ever Women AI Award at the VB AI Summit.

Books and articles

* Representing coarticulation processes in Arabic speech', co-authored with Michael Ingleby, S Boudelaa, 2006 * Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic, 2002 * 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. * EMPTY NUCLEI IN ARABIC SPEECH PATTERNS AND THE DIACRITIC SUKU UN, co-authored with Michael Ingleby * Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMs of spoken Arabic using CV units, coauthored with Michael Ingleby

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baothnman, Fatmah Living people Academic staff of King Abdulaziz University Alumni of the University of Huddersfield Artificial intelligence researchers Date of birth missing (living people) Women computer scientists Women technology writers Year of birth missing (living people)