Biography

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Hotham Altwaijry  

Hotham Altwaijry

Assistant Director for Advanced Recognition Technologies & Digital Identity, Saudi Data and AI Authority




Dr. Hotham is the Assistant Director for Advanced Recognition Technologies & Digital Identity (iDART) in the National Information Center (NIC) at the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA). In addition, he is the General Supervisor of Data and AI for Smart Cities Program in SDAIA. Prior to that, he was the co-founder of Estishraf (Insights) platform in NIC. He was also an AI consultant for the AI Center of Advanced Studies (Thakaa). Dr. Hotham was the Deputy Supervisor for the Centers-of-excellence program in King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).