Adeeb Noor
Executive Profile
Strategic executive leader, professor, researcher and builder with 17+ years of experience across Saudi government, higher education and healthcare. Work spans sovereign and responsible AI strategy, data-driven workforce planning, research-and-innovation governance, hospital digital modernization, biomedical informatics, venture building and institutional transformation. The recurring pattern is to translate evidence into operating models, platforms, policies and products that can function at national or institutional scale.
Scale & Impact
Core Competencies
Professional Experience
Chief Strategy Advisor — Office of the VP for Research & Innovation
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Led enterprise-wide restructuring of research and graduate studies toward stronger governance, private-sector integration and financial sustainability. • Designed a Tri-Party Partnership System (university × industry × government) and framed the investment thesis and operating model for KAU’s R&D and innovation roadmap with AT Kearney. • Secured 6 international MOUs, SAR 500K in commercial contracts and SAR 1M in inbound research funding within 12 months; facilitated 3 joint ventures. • Conceived a Living Lab commercial P&L model, formalized an Industry Liaison Office and advanced an output-based academic supervision model focused on research impact and graduate completion.
Founder & Lead Architect — IMAM GenAI Ecosystem
Independent Venture
• Built a Saudi-made GenAI learning ecosystem designed around local identity, labor-market relevance and AI-native curriculum design. • Latest executive CV reports a pilot of n=68 with 70% job placement and +35% salary uplift; commercialization and institutional partnerships are under development.
Full Professor — Faculty of Computing & Information Technology
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Leads research and teaching across AI, data science, biomedical informatics, digital health, software engineering and education innovation. • Develops research programs spanning allocation identity (RIDI), drug-interaction knowledge, neuro-symbolic AI, health prediction and AI-enabled curriculum systems.
Senior Executive Advisor — National Human Capability Development
Ministry of Education, Office of the Minister, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Designed and oversaw national human-capital development for 540,000+ educators across 49 districts. • Authored and presented “Educating the Kingdom: Insights for the Future” (MoEinsights2023) and contributed to a 10-year national education roadmap. • Led strategic workforce planning with KPMG; PPP transition and investment roadmaps with BCG; data monetization strategy with EY; and agency restructuring with PwC. • Established a national educator career pathway and delivered SAR 11.25M in year-one savings through ML-driven redundancy analysis. • Co-authored education privatization strategy and architected Kitabati, an e-textbook privatization model that received ministerial/deputy approval for pilot.
Executive Director of Advisory & AI Strategy / Head of Advisory Service
Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
• Established an AI R&D Center and built its research value proposition, digital strategy and operating model from the ground up. • Positioned Arabic and Islamic data assets as a strategic moat for ethical AI and designed an IP-licensing model aimed at reducing dependency on government funding.
Senior National Advisor — Data Strategy / Data Science Expert
Ministry of Education, Scholastic Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Identified and addressed cross-ministry data-governance issues in student health records and designed a compliant integration architecture with Ministry of Health systems. • Developed the Unified Saudi Education Classification for Professions, applying ICD-10-like classification logic to index 540,000+ educators and support real-time supply/demand forecasting. • Guided enterprise AI strategy and predictive analytics for workforce planning and resource allocation.
Associate Professor — Faculty of Computing & Information Technology
King Abdulaziz University
• Research and graduate supervision in AI, bioinformatics, healthcare technology and predictive analytics; advisory work on AI implementation and data governance.
Visiting Professor (Adjunct, part-time) — CBRC
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• Collaborative R&D in bioinformatics and personalized medicine; contributed to translational work and entrepreneurial validation within the KAUST ecosystem. • GenomeFit market validation included hospital partnerships and TAQADAM pre-seed support.
IT Director & Digital Modernization Lead
King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Directed up to 70 staff and an SAR 18.75M operating budget with hiring and delivery authority. • Conceived and launched SHIFAA, an award-winning patient portal that the latest executive CV reports scaled to 1,000,000+ users; earlier CVs documented 500,000+ users during prior periods. • Developed the Live Emergency Department Dashboard (LEDD), which placed 2nd in a Ministry of Health national healthcare innovation competition and remained in continuous operation. • Led an SAR 10.875M enterprise digitization program with Microsoft, achieving ISO 27001/9001 compliance, improved uptime and lower costs; also directed PACS deployment for medical imaging.
Assistant Professor — Faculty of Computing & Information Technology
King Abdulaziz University
• Conducted AI and bioinformatics research and developed healthcare-IT and software-engineering initiatives.
Entrepreneur — Innovation Center
KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• Led entrepreneurial initiatives using AI in healthcare and education, including GenomeFit and related precision-medicine work.
Head of Systems Department
King Abdulaziz University — E-Learning Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Managed IT operations, network infrastructure and 24/7 technical support for a large university user base.
Board, Governance & Strategic Committees
- Member, Council of Experts — Educational Job Classifications, Ministry of Education.
- Member, Advisory Committee — King Abdulaziz University Hospital.
- Core member, KAU Research & Innovation Permanent Committee; Research Strategy & Initiatives Committee; Visiting Professorship & Distinguished Scientists Program.
- Chair, Industrial Research Partnerships File; founder/board-disclosed advisor for IMAM GenAI.
Entrepreneurial & Commercial Track Record
Selected Strategic Initiatives & Pipeline
- Output-Based Academic Supervision Model — research/teaching/supervision tracks designed to shift academic measurement from input hours toward outputs and impact.
- HEALTHx — clinical innovation and commercialization platform; current business targets in source CV are forward-looking pipeline assumptions, not realized revenue.
- Kitabati — e-textbook privatization model approved for national pilot in prior executive work.
- KAU Industry Liaison Office — institutional pipeline for patents, industry partnerships and deep-tech spin-offs across strategic research domains.
Research & Scholarly Impact
- 40+ peer-reviewed publications across artificial intelligence, data science, bioinformatics, healthcare technology and education innovation (as reported in prior CVs).
- Current citation count and h-index are intentionally kept dynamic; Google Scholar is the authoritative live source.
Education
PhD, Computer Science (Bioinformatics)
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Dissertation: The D3 Pharmacovigilance System: Characterization of Drug-Drug Interactions by Statistical Inference Based on Big Data Mining and Semantic Web Technologies.
MS, Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Thesis on improving bioinformatics software quality through incorporation of software-engineering practices.
BS, Information Technology
Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Awards & Recognition
- KAUST TAQADAM Award / pre-seed support — precision-medicine venture (2016).
- FekraTech Innovation Award / grant — emergency-department optimization project (2017).
- Microsoft Recognition Award — Data Center Implementation Excellence (2017).
- Excellence in Governmental Services Award — City of Jeddah (reported in prior CV).
- Hope Hackathon Winner — disability accessibility solution (reported in prior CV).
- Best Hospital Director nomination — King Abdulaziz University Hospital (reported in prior CV).
Certifications & Professional Development
- Project Management Professional (PMP) — reported in prior CV.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate.
- Navigating Generative AI Certificate.
- Business Essentials; Education Financing Indicators.
- ISO 9001 delivery / implementation experience; Qmentum healthcare accreditation experience.
Selected Endorsement
“I wholeheartedly endorse Adeeb for any leadership role that demands a profound understanding of digital transformation and AI-driven innovation.” — Prof. Amin Noaman, VP for Graduate Studies & Research, King Abdulaziz University (as reproduced in the 2026 executive CV).
Languages & Identity
- Nationality: Saudi
- Arabic — Native
- English — Fluent