Adeeb Noor
Executive Profile
Executive leader with 17+ years spanning Saudi government, higher education and healthcare, combining AI strategy, human-capital transformation, research governance, data strategy, digital health and venture building. Experience includes national programs for 540,000+ educators, digital platforms reaching 1,000,000+ users, large-scale operating-model redesign, research commercialization, hospital modernization and AI-enabled systems built for consequential decisions.
Executive Snapshot
Core Executive Domains
Professional Experience
Chief Strategy Advisor — Office of the VP for Research & Innovation, King Abdulaziz University
Leads research-and-innovation strategy, institutional restructuring, commercialization, governance and industry integration. Designed a tri-party university × industry × government partnership system; helped frame KAU’s R&D and innovation roadmap; developed commercialization and operating-model concepts including a Living Lab P&L model and Industry Liaison Office; secured international MOUs, commercial contracts, inbound research funding and joint-venture activity.
Founder & Lead Architect — IMAM GenAI Ecosystem
Founded a Saudi-made GenAI learning ecosystem connecting local identity, AI-native curriculum design and workforce readiness. The current executive CV record reports a pilot of 68 participants with 70% job placement and +35% salary uplift, alongside commercialization and institutional partnership development.
Full Professor — Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University
Academic leadership across artificial intelligence, data science, bioinformatics, healthcare technology, software engineering and educational innovation; research translated into systems, policy and ventures.
Visiting Professor (Adjunct, part-time) — CBRC, KAUST
Long-running collaborative R&D in a globally diverse research environment, with translational work spanning bioinformatics and personalized medicine. Venture validation through KAUST’s innovation ecosystem included GenomeFit and TAQADAM support.
Senior Executive Advisor — National Human Capability Development, Ministry of Education
Designed and oversaw national human-capital and workforce-planning programs for 540,000+ educators. Work included long-range education strategy, operating-model redesign, career pathways, privatization, governance, public-private partnership planning and data monetization. Strategic delivery involved major consulting and technology partners including KPMG, BCG, EY, PwC and Devoteam.
Executive Director of Advisory & AI Strategy — Islamic University of Madinah
Built an AI R&D center and enterprise operating model from the ground up, centered on Arabic and Islamic data assets, ethical AI, IP licensing and institutional digital transformation.
Senior National Advisor — Data Strategy, Ministry of Education
Led data-governance and predictive-analytics initiatives including student-health integration, a unified education classification for professions, workforce supply/demand forecasting and AI-enabled decision support for national policy.
IT Director & Digital Modernization Lead — King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Directed 70 staff and a SAR 18.75M operating budget. Conceived and launched SHIFAA, built the Live Emergency Department Dashboard (LEDD), led a SAR 10.875M enterprise digitization program with Microsoft, and drove quality, infrastructure and security modernization including ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 initiatives.
Head of Systems Department — King Abdulaziz University
Managed enterprise systems, infrastructure and 24/7 technical operations supporting large university user populations; early foundation in IT operations, reliability and service delivery.
Selected Systems, Ventures & Commercialization
Board, Governance & Advisory Service
Council of Experts — Educational Job Classifications, Ministry of Education
Contributed to national educational job classification and workforce strategy aligned with Vision 2030 human-capability objectives.
Research & Innovation Strategy Committees
Service across research-and-innovation permanent committees, research strategy and initiatives, visiting-professorship and distinguished-scientist programs, and industrial research partnership work.
Advisory Committee — King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Digital strategy and quality-governance contribution for an academic medical center.
Selected Recognition
Education & Credentials
PhD, Computer Science (Bioinformatics) — University of Colorado Boulder
D3 Pharmacovigilance System: drug–drug interaction characterization using statistical inference, big-data mining and Semantic Web technologies.
MS, Computer Science — University of Colorado Boulder
Graduate work connecting software engineering quality with bioinformatics software.