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Adeeb Noor

Chief Strategy Advisor, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation · Professor of Data Science & AI, King Abdulaziz University
Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University
AI & decision intelligence · Research & innovation · Digital health · Institutional transformation
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
arnoor@kau.edu.sa
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Executive Profile

Executive leader, professor and builder with 18+ years across Saudi government, higher education and healthcare. Work spans AI Update Accountability, AI strategy and governance, national workforce intelligence, research-and-innovation operating models, digital health, commercialization and institutional transformation — translating evidence into systems that can operate at scale.

Executive Snapshot

540,000+ EducatorsNational human-capital and workforce-planning programs across 49 districts.
1,000,000+ UsersDigital platforms scaled to large institutional user populations.
~SAR 190MProgram portfolios shaped or overseen across multi-stakeholder initiatives.
~SAR 18.8MOperating-budget responsibility in hospital technology leadership.
~SAR 11.3MReported year-one savings from strategic workforce analysis.
25% reportedProductivity improvement in a multi-year human-capital optimization effort.
70+ TeamLeadership of multidisciplinary technology and delivery teams.
Research TranslationResearch, prototypes and institutional systems, with each project’s stage stated separately

Financial and performance figures are rounded for executive readability. Where a figure is based on an internal program record rather than an external audit, it is described as reported or approximate.

Core Executive Domains

AI & Decision GovernanceAI Ethics & Responsible AIResearch-to-Market Operating ModelsNational Workforce IntelligenceDigital Health PlatformsResearch & Innovation StrategyPublic-Private R&D PartnershipsCommercialization & IPInstitutional TransformationData Governance

Professional Experience

Jan 2025–Present

Chief Strategy Advisor, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, King Abdulaziz University (2025–Present)

  • Leads research-and-innovation strategy, governance, commercialization, industry integration and institutional redesign.
  • Developed partnership and operating-model concepts spanning industry liaison, living-lab commercialization and research-to-market pathways.
Dec 2024–Present

Founder & Lead Architect — IMAM, now within iSCARB

  • IMAM is the optional Saudi and Islamic contextualization layer within iSCARB. It connects relevant context, values and purpose to the same evidence and technical-fidelity requirements. It is presented as part of this teaching program.
2024–Present

Full Professor — Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University

Research and teaching across AI, decision intelligence, biomedical informatics, digital health, software engineering and educational innovation.

2021–2024

Senior Executive Advisor — National Human Capability Development, Ministry of Education

  • Designed and oversaw national human-capital and workforce-planning programs for 540,000+ educators.
  • Served as the institutional lead/counterpart on commissioned workstreams delivered with major consulting and technology partners including KPMG, BCG, EY, PwC and Devoteam.
2021

Executive Director of Advisory & AI Strategy — Islamic University of Madinah

Built an AI R&D center and enterprise operating model centered on Arabic and Islamic data assets, ethical AI, IP licensing and digital transformation.

2019–2021

Senior National Advisor — Data Strategy, Ministry of Education

Led data-governance, classification, predictive-analytics and workforce decision-support initiatives for national policy.

2016–Present

Visiting Professor — Bio-Ontology Research Group, KAUST

Collaborative R&D in bioinformatics and personalized medicine, with translational and venture-validation activity through the KAUST ecosystem.

2016–2018

IT Director & Digital Modernization Lead — King Abdulaziz University Hospital

  • Directed a 70-person technology organization and an operating budget of approximately SAR 18.8M.
  • Led patient-platform, operational-intelligence, enterprise digitization, infrastructure, security and quality initiatives.
2006–2008

Head of Systems Department — King Abdulaziz University

Managed enterprise systems, infrastructure and 24/7 technical operations supporting university services.

Selected Systems, Ventures & Commercialization

RIDIRIDI is the research project behind the manuscript “Equal evaluation scores do not certify equivalent AI behaviour”, with an open toolkit (ridi-audit) for selection-change auditing and the exact identity–utility frontier. It asks how systems can retain aggregate performance while changing their actions, and how much change an explicit objective actually requires.
SHIFAAPatient-facing digital platform created within hospital modernization.
LEDDLive Emergency Department Dashboard for patient-flow and crowding intelligence.
GenomeFitPrecision-medicine venture validated through the KAUST/TAQADAM ecosystem.
Founder, HEALTHxclinical innovation platform; invention disclosure under review
iSCARBiSCARB integrates IMAM as an optional contextualization layer. Current implementation spans nine software-engineering chapters, with story-led lectures from Chapter 12, executable labs and an open preprint.

Governance & Advisory Service

National

Council of Experts — Educational Job Classifications, Ministry of Education

KAU

Research & Innovation Strategy Committees

Research strategy, visiting-professorship, distinguished-scientist and industrial research partnership work.

Healthcare

Advisory Committee — King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Education & Credentials

2015

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.

2010

MS, Computer Science — University of Colorado Boulder

2006

BS, Information Technology — Taibah University

PMPCertified ScrumMasterCCNAGoogle Data AnalyticsGenerative AI

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How to read the figures

Source: my CV record; these figures are self-reported, without an independent verification report linked here.

18+ Years. 18+ years is my reported cumulative experience in the CV record. The dated career record begins with a university systems role in 2006–2008; this headline is not an automated count of uninterrupted service.

540,000+ educators: reported coverage of national human-capital and workforce-planning programs across 49 education districts during my 2021–2024 Ministry of Education role. It describes program scope, not a measured individual outcome for every educator.

1,000,000+ users: platform reach reported in my CV. The available record does not specify the measurement period, counting method or treatment of duplicate users. This figure should not be read as a current active-user count or attributed entirely to one product.

Current systems & research · October 2026

Submission-ready manuscript (not yet peer reviewed): Equal evaluation scores do not certify equivalent AI behaviour, with open source data on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22974727). I examine action identity, evidence and the distinction between observed and necessary change.

iSCARB integrates IMAM as an optional contextualization layer. Current implementation spans nine software-engineering chapters, with story-led lectures from Chapter 12, executable labs and an open preprint.

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