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• Machine learning
• Wireless communications

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. 

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".

Ibrahim Abdelaziz is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research, where he focuses on enhancing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly on improving their agentic and reasoning abilities. Prior to this, Ibrahim led several projects in the areas of knowledge graphs, question answering, knowledge representation, and reasoning. He earned his Ph.D. from KAUST, where his research focused on graph analytics and distributed computing, specifically on building distributed systems to efficiently manage, query, and mine large-scale graphs.

Ibrahim Abdelaziz's research interests included Data Mining over large datasets, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.