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Dr. Halima Bensmail is a Principal Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and a visiting full Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She received her PhD from Pierre & Marie Currie University in Paris, France, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington and FHCRC in Seattle, Washington, USA. Halima was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Tennessee and the Virginia Medical School before joining Qatar Foundation. Halima's expertise lies in the frontiers of machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, and she is also a statistician and a biostatistician.

She has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Scientific Reports, and Bioinformatics. She has also earned multiple research awards taught courses in Qatar, the US, and France, and mentored many summer interns, and master's and PhD students. Halima has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on various research grants, and she is currently a member of a $2 million newly founded center provided by the USDA grant agency to the obesity center at Texas Tech. Halima has worked as a reviewer for the NIH and NSF, and she is a board member of the Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technology Foundation in Davos and an AdCom representative of IEEE EMBs in MENA.