Fatmah Baothman Explained

Fatmah Baothman
Birth Place:	Saudi Arabia
Known For:	The first woman to receive VB AI award
Notable Works:	She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society She became the first teaching assistant faculty member
Education:	University of Huddersfield Ph.D.
Alma Mater:	The University of Huddersfield
Employer:	King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology
Occupation:	Artificial intelligence researcher

Fatmah Baothman is Saudi Arabian computer scientist who is the first woman in the Middle East with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence.^[1] She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society.^[2] Baothman has worked over 25 years as, and is currently, an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology^{[3] [4]} Baothman established the women's Department which is the foundation of the Computer Science College at King Abdulaziz University, and became the first teaching assistant faculty member.

Education and career

In 2003, Baothman earned her Ph.D. from The University of Huddersfield, the School of Computing and Engineering in the United Kingdom.^[5] Her AI dissertation is AI application in "phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic."^[6] She was awarded with distinction in 2003.^[6]

Baothman became the chairwoman of the IEEE Women in Engineering Western Region, established the King Abdulaziz University KAU IEEE chapter for women and the President of Women Engineers Committee at Women Engineers Committee at “Saudi Council of Engineering” western region.^[7]

Books and articles

• Representing coarticulation processes in Arabic speech', co-authored with Michael Ingleby, S Boudelaa, 2006^[8]
• Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic, 2002 ^[9]
• Comparative Study from Several Business Cases and Methodologies for ICT Project Evaluation, 2016for ICT project evaluation with her co-authors Farrukh Saleem, Naomie Salim, Abdulrahman H Altalhi, AL Abdullah, Zahid Ullah, Fatmah A Baothman, Muhammad Haleem Junejo.^{[10] [11] [12]}
• EMPTY NUCLEI IN ARABIC SPEECH PATTERNS AND THE DIACRITIC SUKU UN, co-authored with Michael Ingleby^[13]
• Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMs of spoken Arabic using CV units, coauthored with Michael Ingleby^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2019-10-29. Who's Who: Fatmah Baothman, the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI. 2020-11-14. Arab News. en.
2. Web site: 2019-10-31 . Fatmah Baothman: First Arab Woman to Earn Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence . 2020-11-14 . Al Bawaba . en.
3. Web site: Fatmah Baothman. 2020-11-14. scholar.google.com.
4. Web site: Meet the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in AI – Daily US News. thedailyusnews.com.
5. Web site: Team. Insights. Forbes Insights: Dr. Fatmah Baothman: How Women Can Lead The Way Forward With AI. 2020-11-14. Forbes. en.
6. Web site: Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT. 2020-11-14. en-US.
7. Web site: Dr. Fatmah Baothman – Saudi IoT. 2020-11-15. en-US.
8. Book: Boudelaa, Sami. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI, Cambridge, March 2002. 2006-02-22. John Benjamins Publishing. 978-90-272-8526-3. en.
9. Phonology-based automatic speech recognition for Arabic. University of Huddersfield. 2002. Ph.D.. Fatmah bint Abdul Rahman. Baothman.
10. Saleem. Farrukh. Salim. Naomie. Altalhi. Abdulrahman H. Ullah. Zahid. AL-Ghamdi. Abdullah AL-Malaise. Khan. Zahid Mahmood. 2020-01-02. Assessing the effects of information and communication technologies on organizational development: business values perspectives. Information Technology for Development. 26. 1. 54–88. 10.1080/02681102.2017.1335279. 157857939. 0268-1102.
11. A proposed model to measure the impact of business architecture. Abdullah Saad AL-Malaise. AL-Ghamdi. Shaofeng. Liu. January 1, 2017. Cogent Business & Management. 4. 1. 1405493. 10.1080/23311975.2017.1405493. free. 10419/206021. free.
12. Web site: A Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Evaluation of ICT Investments. Lindo . Oscar . www.fsma.edu.br . 2020-11-16.
13. Book: Boudelaa, Sami. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI, Cambridge, March 2002. 2006-02-22. John Benjamins Publishing. 978-90-272-8526-3. en.
14. Book: Ingleby. M.. Baothman. F.. 2014 Third IEEE International Colloquium in Information Science and Technology (CIST) . Syllabic Markov models of Arabic HMMS of spoken Arabic using CV units . October 2014. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7016628. 254–259. 10.1109/CIST.2014.7016628. 978-1-4799-5979-2. 288857.