الدكتورة حليمـة بنسمعيل
عالم رئيسي أستاذ مشارك
البريد الإلكتروني
hbensmail@hbku.edu.qaالهاتف
+974 44540195موقع المكتب
1116, First Floor, HBKU Research Development Complex
الدكتورة حليمـة بنسمعيل
عالم رئيسي أستاذ مشارك
المؤهلات العلمية
Ph.D. in Biostatistics/Statistics
MSc in Statistical Machine Learning
الكيان
معهد قطر لبحوث الحوسبة
كلية العلوم والهندسة
Divison
تحليل البيانات
قسم تكنولوجيا المعلومات والحوسبة
السيرة الذاتية
Dr. Halima Bensmail obtained a PhD at the Pierre & Marie Currie University. She spent three years at the University of Washington and FHCRC as a postdoc and was a researcher in the Data Theory Group, University of Leiden. Dr. Halima held the positions of assistant and associate professor at the University of Tennessee and Virginia Medical School. Currently, she is a principal scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute and a joint associate professor at the College of Science and Engineering at HBKU. She is also a visiting professor at TAMU-Q.
Dr. Halima published more than 120 peer reviewed papers in high impact journals (Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatic among many). She has received numerous prestigious honors, taught numerous courses in Qatar, the US, and Europe, and mentored numerous Master's and PhD students. Dr. Halima has been Co-PI on several research grants in Qatar and abroad. She is a mentor for a $2 millions newly created center awarded by USDA grant agency to the obesity center in Texas Tech and serves as a reviewer for the NIH and NSF and is a board member of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technology Foundation, Davos and an AdCom representative of IEEE EMBs in MENA.
Ph.D. in Biostatistics/Statistics
University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
1996
MSc in Statistical Machine Learning
La Sorbonne University
1991
B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sciences Mohamed V
1989
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics-Computational Biology
- Statistics-Biostatistics
- Artificial Intelligence
Senior and Principal Scientist
QCAI, Qatar Computing Research Institute
2011 - Present
Joint Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2016 - Present
Associate Professor
Virginia Public Health Program, Eastern Virginia Medical school (EVMS) Virginia, USA
2006 - 2009
Assistant and Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Operation Management Sciences (SOMS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville USA
2000 - 2006
Scientist
Data Theory Center, University of Leiden, Netherlands
1997 - 2000
Scientist
Modeling and Data Science for Population Studies, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
1996 - 1997
- 2016: Best Contribution, Information Complexity in Statistics, Cappadocia, Turkey.
- 2013: Best Research Team of the Year 2013 Award, Qatar National Research Fund, Doha, Qatar.
- 2011: Best Researcher in Computing, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
- 2000: ONRST Postdoctoral Fellowship, Office of Naval Research Science and Technology, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
- 1996: Best Research Award in Statistics for Classification, International Federation for Classification (IFCS), Rome, Italy.
- 1994: Graduate Fellowship, Institute National for Research in Informatics and Automatics (INRIA), Versailles, France.