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د. نجوى الغامدي | Dr. Najwa Alghamdi

Assistant Professor

عضو هيئة تدريس

علوم الحاسب والمعلومات
Female Campus, College of Computer and Information Science, 3rd floor, room no. 57
السيرة الذاتية

السيرة الذاتية

مختصر السيرة الذاتية
Dr. Najwa Alghmadi has over 15 years of experience in developing and leading information technology projects. As a data expert, she has a long experience in data collection methods, quantitative & qualitative analysis and data interpretation and visualisation. She is also an accomplished artificial intelligence researcher who utilizes her three key skills (​creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving)​ to conduct novel, multidisciplinary, and effective research. Najwa is also a UX practitioner, an academic faculty member, and a social entrepreneur in IT. She established and currently directs the Strategic Digital Partnership Program, and the Communication Unit in King Saud University. In those roles, Najwa has greatly practiced leadership, strategic thinking and planning, design thinking and innovation in IT.​ Recently, she successfully completed the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme from Said Business School, University of Oxford, where she practiced how to develop effective leadership skills and explored core leadership themes. Najwa is an influencer, a creative content creator, a skilled bilingual writer, and a passionate science communicator; she co-founded Mundhor, a computer science communication platform aimed at all society spectra, where she creates ​graphical reports,​ p​odcasts​ and ​blogs​ about computer science. She is also an excellent communicator and public speaker (presented in 50+ national and international venues/conferences).
الجامعه
University of Sheffield
King Saud university
King Saud University
من تاريخ
الي تاريخ
التخصص
Computer Science
MSc
Computer Application
الدرجة
PhD
Computer Science
BSc.
الانتماء
College of Computer & Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University
College of Computer & Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University
من تاريخ
المسمي الوظيفي
The Director of the Strategic Digital Partnership Program (Jan 2020 - PRESENT)
The Head of Communication Unit
Academic Faculty Member
حول الخبرة
The program aims to establish and maintain long-term partnerships with external entities that will contribute in creating a better academic and research environment at CCIS. My role is to:
-Design and execute the program strategy plan, policies, workflow, measures, rubrics and KPIs.
-Manage partnership requests, and this involves: evaluating requests, admitting partners to the program, managing legal contracts and agreements, following-up with plans executions and evaluating partner status.
-Market the program to potential partners by making calls and visits and setting up awareness campaigns through social media outlets.
-Design an online partnership management system that facilitates initiating and monitoring partnership outcomes.
-lead a team of faculty members and admin assistants across male and female campuses.
Design and execute the communication strategy plan;
Manage CCIS communication activities, programs,initiatives and awareness campaigns;
Handle internal and external communication and this involves: managing CCIS website and social media outlet.
Rebranding CCIS communication and this involves: creating new identity materials and prints, restructuring communication protocols, and improving communication messages.
Generate communication reports, analytics, infographics and visual documents.
Lead and coach a team of admin assistants across male and female campuses.
Worked as a lecturer (2006- 2018) and currently working as an assistant professor (2018- Present).
Founded the User Experience Design lab. In this lab, students receive training on design thinking, conducting customer/user research and market domain analysis, and producing high quality technical products.
Co-founded Techno-Entrepreneurship and Innovation course. In this course, students conduct research to understand the tech-entrepreneurship ecosystem in Saudi Arabia, and learn how to build their own startups.
Supervising Graduation projects in the domain of voice-based intelligent agents for healthcare and education.
Teaching experience also includes programming languages, system analysis and design, and software engineering.
Admin duties: led the following teams: postgraduate studies committee and public relations and media committee, and external activities team.