Ideas & positions
What the score hides
What changes when an AI system changes, and who signs off.
Read my position →AI Update Accountability · AI ethics · What changes when your AI changes
Adeeb Noor
Professor of Data Science & AI, King Abdulaziz University; Visiting Professor, KAUST; Chief Strategy Advisor, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, KAU; Founder, HEALTHx (invention disclosure under review)
I study AI ethics as a question of evidence: what changes when an AI system changes, who is affected, and who signs off.
Building on my doctoral work in biomedical informatics (2015), my research connects evidence and inference to justice, accountability and human judgment. I bring these questions into institutional strategy, workforce systems and digital health.
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 →Ideas and execution
Leadership & implementation
From evidence to institutional capability
My executive record across government, healthcare and higher education.
Explore leadership & impact →Selected work
Research. Delivery. Practical tools.
Three examples of how I connect evidence, institutional needs and working systems.
RIDI
- The value
- Show which answers or selections change after an AI update. In RIDI's preregistered experiment, five standard retrieval metrics stayed identical while correctness changed in 17.27% of 800 queries.
- What exists today
- A preregistered experiment (five standard retrieval metrics stayed identical; correctness changed in 17.27% of 800 queries), an open audit toolkit, and a submission-ready manuscript not yet peer reviewed.
My contribution: research lead and audit-toolkit architecture.
SHIFAA
- The value
- Give patients a digital route to King Abdulaziz University Hospital services.
- What exists today
- An institutional patient portal, founded as part of the hospital’s digital modernization.
My contribution: founder and technology leadership during hospital digital modernization.
MIYAR
- The value
- Turn an organizational priority into a role proposal that people can review and approve.
- What exists today
- A bilingual public pilot connecting organization design, job evaluation, workforce planning and compensation.
My contribution: co-development with Ahmad Raza Khan.
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.
Open data · CC BY 4.0
RIDI source data and reproducibility package for “Equal evaluation scores do not certify equivalent AI behaviour”
Zenodo · v1.0.0
Manuscript · submission-ready, not yet peer reviewed
Equal evaluation scores do not certify equivalent AI behaviour
RIDI research project
Preprint · not yet 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
From LinkedIn
Latest writing and updates.
Regulators now expect AI updates to be planned before they ship. They do not yet say what the plan must check. FDA's final PCCP guidance asks for "pre-defined acceptance criteria" (Section V.A). If "the predefined acceptance criteria for a…
Read on LinkedInRecognition & 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
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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