Personal Information

 Teaching Assistant

Department of Department of Information Systems

Faculty of Computing and Information Technology in Rabigh

Contact Information

Phone: 024232702

Email: raalshaikh@kau.edu.sa

Rana Abdulhadi abdulsalam Al-Shaikh

 Teaching Assistant

Profile

I joined the faculty of Computing and Information Technology in 2012 as a teaching assistant. I was previously a MSc and then a PhD student at Cardiff University from 2014 to 2021. My research, in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, is centered on reasoning and representation learning. This involves the combination of techniques from the Knowledge Representation, Computer vision, and Cognitive science fields with methods from Machine Learning.

Education

  • 2005

    Bachelor degree from computer sciencesFaculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz university, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

  • 2017

    Master degree from Information Security and Privacy School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, كارديف, بريطانيا

  • 2021

    Doctorate degree from Artificial Intelligence School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, كارديف, بريطانيا

Employment

  • 2006-2012

    High school computer science teacher, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

  • 2012-2021

    Teaching Assistant, KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

  • 2021-حاليا

    Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

 Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

Scientific interests

Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval.

Courses

Areas of expertise