Eman Bin Khunayn
GM Smart Cities Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolEman Bin Khunayn is a technology and research leader with 11 years’ experience driving smart cities, AI, and large-scale complex systems initiatives across KACST and MIT collaborations. She leads the Smart Cities Institute at KACST and co-directs the KACST–MIT Center for Complex Engineering Systems, translating multidisciplinary research in transportation, healthcare, and social science into deployable data-driven urban solutions. Holding a PhD and MS from the University of Melbourne, her doctoral work advanced behavioral simulations and scalable distributed algorithms tested on million-object traffic scenarios across cities and clusters of 100+ machines. She has built and scaled teams and training programs in computer vision, NLP, IoT, and analytics, and routinely bridges academia, government, and industry to accelerate adoption. Known for combining deep technical rigor with strategic program leadership, she also supervises fellowships and student projects, cultivating the next generation of urban systems researchers. An uncommon strength is her hands-on experience implementing and validating simulation-driven ML solutions in real city-scale experiments, not just theory.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Arabic, English
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Github contributions (5)
ekhunayn/SMARTS
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
SmartsDev/SMARTS
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
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