Prof. Tanzila Saba has over 20 years of experience in academia, ten years of which involve holding a senior administrative position at Prince Sultan University. She earned her PhD in document information security and management from the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, in 2012.

She won the Best Student Chancellor Award in the Faculty of Computing UTM in 2012. Currently, she is serving as an Associate Chair of the Information Systems Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Prince Sultan University Riyadh KSA. In recent years, her primary research focus is medical imaging, pattern recognition, data mining, Soft-computing and tech innovation. She has above 200 hundred publications that have around 10933 citations with an h-index of 63.

Her most publications are in AI and Data Science research domains, published in ISI/SCIE indexed. Due to her excellent research achievements, she was included in Marquis Who’s Who (S & T) 2012.” She is the editor and reviewer of high reputed journals and on the panel of TPC of international indexed conferences. She is skilled with ABET & NCAAA quality assurance on the accreditation side. She is a member of the PSU Institutional Strategic Planning Committee, Research Committee and SDGs Committee.

She is the senior member of the college’s quality and curriculum committees and actively participated in designing the new undergraduate and master programs. In addition, she actively participated in the PSU TLC team and worked on OBE initiatives.

She is a senior member of IEEE and UK HEA Fellow. Prof.Tanzila is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Research Lab and the Students’ Data Science Club at Prince Sultan University. She is an active professional member of ACM, AIS and IAENG organizations and the PSU WiDS (Women in Data Science) ambassador at Stanford University.

She received the Best Researcher award for four consecutive years at Prince Sultan University and has been nominated as a Research Professor since September 2019. She has been invited as a keynote speaker at numerous international forums and conferences. She has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists for the consecutive two years (2020 & 2021), by a research study conducted by Stanford University and Elsevier. She is the only female researcher in KSA, who has been listed in Guide2research since 2019-2022.