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Amal Alghamdi

Biography

Amal Alghamdi is a computational scientist and founder of Impact Alpha, Saudi Arabia. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, and another M.S. in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Before founding Impact Alpha, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Scientific Computing section at the Technical University of Denmark. 

Research Interests

Amal's research focuses on inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, optimization, and high-performance computing, with applications in geophysics and biomedicine, aiming to bridge advanced computing and mathematical modeling for real-world impact. Her M.S. Thesis topic was "Parallelization of a hyperbolic PDE solver in Python".

Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Computational Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, United States, 2020
Master of Science (M.S.)
Computational Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, United States, 2015
Master of Science (M.S.)
Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2011