Abdullah Khamis graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from KAUST under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Bajic and Associate Professor Xin Gao. He now works as the Director of Data Science in the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) of the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia. He leads the Data Science team in developing several machine learning based predictive models such as sentiment analysis and prediction.
Research Interest
Abdullah's research interests were in bioinformatics and machine learning.
Selected Publications
Medvedeva, Y. A., Khamis, A. M., Kulakovskiy, I. V., Ba-Alawi, W., Bhuyan, M. S. I., … Kawaji, H. (2014). Effects of cytosine methylation on transcription factor binding sites. BMC Genomics, 15(1), 119. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-119
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Khamis, A. M., Hamilton, A. R., Medvedeva, Y. A., Alam, T., Alam, I., Essack, M., … Bajic, V. B. (2015). Insights into the Transcriptional Architecture of Behavioral Plasticity in the Honey Bee Apis mellifera
. Scientific Reports, 5(1). doi:10.1038/srep11136
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Khamis, A. M., Essack, M., Gao, X., & Bajic, V. B. (2014). Distinct profiling of antimicrobial peptide families. Bioinformatics, 31(6), 849–856. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu738
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Khamis, A. M. (2016). Machine Learning Identification of Protein Properties Useful for Specific Applications, (Dissertation). https://hdl.handle.net/10754/606030
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Publications
Program Chair,
Computer Science