Dr. MALAK BASLYMAN received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from Umm-Alqura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in 2009 and the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 2015. She was awarded with the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa in 2018. Recently, she received a certificate for the successful completion of digital transformation: leading People, data and technology program, UC Berkeley, 2022. From 2014 to 2016, she worked as a software engineer in Canadian hospitals and from 2018 to 2019 she worked as a technology consultant at Montfort Hospital, Ottawa, Canada. She worked also as a teaching assistant from 2015 to 2018 in the Engineering School, University of Ottawa. She led many research projects in partnership with the Center of Value Improving in Health (MoH) and King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Currently, she works as an advisor to KFUPM’s President and the Director of the Research Partnership Office. Her research areas include Requirements Engineering, Emotion-oriented Software Design, User Experience Engineering, Persuasive Technologies, Digital Health Transformation.  

Affiliation: IRC-FDE