Strategy & Governance
Strategy architecture, priorities, governance and execution models.
SULTAN →What the Score Hides
Adeeb Noor
Professor of Data Science & AI, King Abdulaziz University
I help institutions make fairer, more accurate decisions about people — with data and AI that can be held to account.
Strategy & governance · Human capital & workforce intelligence · AI & decision intelligence · Digital health & institutional transformation.
King Abdulaziz University · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
“A score is not a decision.”
18+ Years
Cumulative experience across academia, government, healthcare and advisory work
Scope & source →540,000+
Educators within national workforce-planning programs
Scope & source →49
Education districts covered, 2021–2024
Scope & source →1,000,000+
Users reached by institutional platforms
Scope & source →Recognition & public record
On the public record.
Jeddah Creativity AwardSHIFAA patient platform · KAU Hospital20,000+ registered usersSHIFAA milestone announced by KAU HospitalScientific Reports, 2026Context-aware AI assistance reduces diagnostic errorKAUST Research ConferenceInvited speaker, 2016KAUST featureGenomeFit and personalized medicine, 2017
Executive focus
Four connected capabilities.
I combine strategy, human capital, AI and digital health to build institutional capability that can be executed and measured.
Human Capital & Workforce Intelligence
Workforce planning, organizational design, job architecture and capability.
MIYAR & Kinetic HR →AI & Decision Intelligence
System evaluation, responsible AI and accountable decision design.
RIDI & research →Digital Health & Institutional Transformation
Health platforms, clinical innovation and digital transformation leadership.
SHIFAA & LEDD →Ways to work together
A clear starting point for your next challenge.
Define the question, the decision and the outcome you need. Scope, availability and fees are agreed after a short first conversation.
Strategic advisory
AI strategy, decision governance and institutional transformation. A defined advisory project or an ongoing retainer.
Discuss this engagement →Boards & expert committees
Independent technical and strategic perspective for boards, expert committees and research or innovation governance.
Discuss this engagement →Keynotes & workshops
Executive briefings, invited talks and focused workshops in AI, digital health, education and research translation.
Discuss this engagement →Applied research partnerships
Joint research, independent replication and evaluation, with a clear question, evidence plan and division of responsibilities.
Discuss this engagement →Venture & product collaboration
Research-backed product development, institutional pilots and venture collaboration in HealthTech, EdTech and decision intelligence.
Discuss this engagement →Current research & publications
New questions. Published work.
Updates from ongoing research, preprints and published work, with each stage stated explicitly. Publications link to public records; work in progress links to the research program.
Manuscript · work in progress
Performance equivalence does not imply action equivalence in AI systems
AI evaluation & decision systems
Preprint · not peer reviewed
From Answer Production to Defensible Engineering Judgment in AI-Containing Systems: The iSCARB Framework and a Nine-Chapter Software Engineering Implementation
Zenodo · v1.0
Peer-reviewed article
Context-aware AI assistance reduces diagnostic error in chest X-ray interpretation
Scientific Reports
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Find the right way in.
Ideas & positions
What the Score Hides
A score is not a decision. I study what happens when a score becomes a decision about people, and what evidence makes that decision accountable.
Read my position →Leadership & implementation
How I apply these questions in institutions.
Explore how questions about decisions, evidence and accountability become practical work across government, healthcare, education, research and innovation.
Executive work →Or start from who you are
Funders
Fund a testable question and an accountable decision.
Discuss a funding opportunity →Investors & Venture Partners
Connect research depth to a scalable asset.
Explore a partnership →Universities
Collaborate around a question that crosses disciplinary boundaries.
Discuss academic collaboration →Students
Start with a question, then build evidence of capability.
Discuss your research path →Researchers & Collaborators
Research connected to real decisions.
Propose research collaboration →Government & Institutions
From priorities to institutional capability.
Discuss an institutional priority →Selected Projects
Research. Innovation. Real-World Impact.
Open a project image to explore the work, or read its background for my contribution and the project’s stage.
Public pilot · Under evaluation
MIYAR
Strategy-to-workforce intelligence
Connect strategy, organization design, job evaluation, workforce planning, compensation and institutional approval in a bilingual working prototype with explicit assumptions and human review.
My contribution: co-development with Ahmad Raza Khan.
Public prototype · Workforce decision intelligence
Kinetic HR
Workforce early warning
A bilingual decision layer for monitoring workforce capacity signals, exploring staffing scenarios, and keeping decisions traceable through data-quality and audit views.
My contribution: product concept, decision logic and workforce-intelligence direction.
Public beta · Strategy-building workspace
SULTAN
Strategy architecture & decision governance
Build or improve strategy by connecting institutional identity and ambition to explicit choices, authority, annual transitions, initiatives, funding context and a reviewable strategy.
My contribution: strategy architecture and product direction.
Research & open-source audit toolkit
RIDI
Ranking update governance
Measure how much a ranking update changes the selected items, then compute the exact minimum turnover compatible with a declared utility budget.
My contribution: research lead and audit-toolkit architecture.
Public pilot · Under evaluation
Kamin
Learner-owned capability networks
Connect interests, goals and reviewed academic evidence with learning and career pathways. Explore the relationships, evidence gaps and next steps in a profile the learner controls.
My contribution: project concept and capability-network design.
Institutional platform experience
SHIFAA
Patient digital services
Founding the KAU Hospital patient portal as part of hospital digital modernization and better access to services.
My contribution: founder and technology leadership during hospital digital modernization.
Live course · Open preprint
iSCARB
Defensible engineering judgment
Nine software-engineering chapters train learners to justify a choice, state its limits, inspect evidence and revise after a changed condition. IMAM provides an optional contextualization layer.
My contribution: method creator and course lead.
Platform concept
HEALTHx
Clinical innovation
Exploring how hospital innovation can become reusable digital-health services and research-backed products.
My contribution: platform concept and clinical-innovation architecture.
Venture experience · KAUST, 2017
GenomeFit
Personalized medicine
Co-founded a genomic screening and drug-response venture supported through the KAUST TAQADAM program.
My contribution: co-founder.
Leadership & Institutional Work
From strategy to institutional capability.
My work connects research depth with the practical demands of governance, workforce planning and digital delivery in Saudi institutions.
- RESEARCH & INNOVATION · 2025–PRESENTKing Abdulaziz University
Strategy advisory spanning research governance, industry partnerships and commercialization pathways.
- NATIONAL ADVISORY · 2019–2024Saudi Ministry of Education
Data strategy, human-capability development and national workforce planning.
- HOSPITAL TECHNOLOGY · 2016–2018King Abdulaziz University Hospital
IT leadership, digital modernization and patient-facing services, including SHIFAA.
Recommendations
What colleagues say.
I wholeheartedly endorse Adeeb for any leadership role that demands a profound understanding of digital transformation and AI-driven innovation. As a visionary leader, he has consistently demonstrated the ability to craft and execute organizational strategies that harness technology to drive business success.
It was a great pleasure and a memorable experience working with Prof. Adeeb when he was the IT director at King Abdulaziz University Hospital. The development of the Shifaa patient portal was one of many successful projects he led. Prof. Adeeb would be a great asset to any institution he joins and an excellent team leader.
Dr. Adeeb has excelled in this role, teamwork and exhibited one of the highest levels of leadership and productivity I have seen in my 17 years in the hospital’s leadership. … These efforts resulted in getting the ISO certification for his department for the first time in the University Hospital.
I had the pleasure of collaborating with Adeeb and am impressed by his deep passion for the impact of AI on organizations and businesses. … His ability to analyze AI’s influence and translate it into actionable business insights is remarkable.
Public recommendations on LinkedIn. Excerpts are verbatim; omissions are marked “…”.
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