Summary
Aseel Addawood is a senior AI leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience blending academic rigor and industry impact, currently serving as Senior Advisory Director EMEA Artificial Intelligence at Oracle and chairing multiple boards in Saudi Arabia. She holds a PhD in Informatics from UIUC and an MEng from Cornell, and transitioned from an assistant professorship to leading AI strategy, policy, and product initiatives across public and private sectors. Founder of several ventures and an AI committee member for Saudi standards, she combines hands-on data science, NLP and ontology research with practical deployment and capacity-building through training and mentorship. Known for building ecosystems as well as models, she quietly bridges academia, government and startups to scale responsible AI across the region.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MEng., Computer Science, MEng., Computer Science at Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fellowship, in Entrepreneurship, Fellowship, in Entrepreneurship at King Saud University
Arabic, English