Dr. Halima Bensmail
Principal Scientist at the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa university (HBKU)
Dr. Halima Bensmail is a Principal Scientist at the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and a Joint Associate Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). She is also a visiting professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). Her expertise includes statistical machine learning, bioinformatics-computational biology, statistics-biostatistics, artificial intelligence.
Prior to joining Qatar Foundation, Dr. Bensmail held the positions of assistant and associate professor at the University of Tennessee, US, and Virginia Medical School, US. She spent three years at the University of Washington, US, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center as a postdoc. She was also a researcher at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Dr. Bensmail has been a co-principal investigator on several research grants in Qatar and abroad. She is also a mentor for a $2 million dollar center awarded by the USDA Grant Agency to the Obesity Center in Texas Tech University, US. Additionally, she serves as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dr. Bensmail published more than 120 peer reviewed papers in high impact journals (Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, among many).
Dr. Bensmail obtained a Ph.D. in biostatistics/statistics at the Pierre and Marie Currie University, France.