24+ years at the intersection of AI, research, and national strategy
Dr. Sarah AlHumoud is an AI executive, applied researcher, and strategic advisor with over 24 years of professional experience — more than 15 of them in executive leadership — across artificial intelligence, scientific research, innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship. She currently serves as Chief AI Officer at Wittify.ai, leading the development of generative AI, intelligent agent, and Arabic language processing solutions.
A career built on translating AI into national impact
Dr. Sarah AlHumoud has a professional career spanning more than 24 years, including more than 15 years in leadership positions, across artificial intelligence, scientific research, innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship. She has held a number of executive positions in the government and academic sectors, and contributed to establishing and leading national initiatives in artificial intelligence — most notably founding the first AI management department and the first Arabic AI center at the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language — alongside leading strategic projects and building partnerships with national and international bodies. She currently serves as Chief AI Officer at Wittify.ai, where she leads the development of generative AI solutions and intelligent agents and Arabic language processing technologies, drawing on her experience in executive leadership, program management, team building, and scientific research.
Career highlights at a glance
More than 24 years of professional experience.
More than 15 years in executive leadership.
Led strategic projects exceeding SAR 100 million.
More than 48 published scientific research papers.
Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Member of the Saudi 2030 Leaders Council.
Chief AI Officer at Wittify.ai.
Director of AI Management and Director of the Arabic AI Center at the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language.
Executive leadership & institutional impact
Founding Partner & Chief AI Officer
Leads the company's technical and research strategy, and oversees the development of generative AI solutions and AI agents for customer service, with a focus on the Arabic language and speech technologies.
- Led the AI technical roadmap.
- Oversaw the development of voice and text language-processing models, and agentic models.
- Built and managed research and development teams.
- Represented the company in local and international programs and initiatives.
Director of AI Management
Took charge of establishing the first specialized AI management department at the Academy, setting its strategy, and leading its national projects.
- Founded the department and built its organizational structure.
- Recruited and formed a multidisciplinary AI team.
- Led strategic projects with budgets exceeding SAR 50 million.
- Led the Arabic Smart Text Editor project.
- Built strategic partnerships with government and private entities.
- Developed performance indicators and governance mechanisms for initiatives and projects.
First Head of the Arabic AI Center (ARAI)
Led the establishment of the center and oversaw its institutional and technical infrastructure to become a national platform supporting AI in the Arabic language.
- Oversaw the founding of the center and its technical infrastructure.
- Established five specialized labs in AI, data, extended reality, media production, and scientific research.
- Set the center's institutional identity and performance indicators.
- Welcomed more than 1,000 visitors before the official opening.
- Developed training programs attended by more than 500 participants.
Executive Advisor to the University President for Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Provided strategic advisory in scientific research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and contributed to developing project governance and institutional performance indicators, as well as building technical tools to facilitate measuring performance, evaluation, and governance indicators.
Director General of the General Administration for the Gifted
Led the General Administration for the Gifted at the national level, contributed to developing national policies and programs for the care of gifted students, and oversaw their implementation in coordination with education departments and related bodies.
- Led national programs for gifted-student care across 94 education departments in different regions of the Kingdom.
- Oversaw national projects and initiatives with budgets exceeding SAR 100 million.
- Developed policies and executive plans for the care of gifted students.
- Built partnerships with government entities and national institutions, foremost among them the King Abdulaziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba).
- Represented the Ministry in national committees, conferences, and events.
- Prepared strategic reports for senior leadership and tracked national performance indicators.
Vice Dean of the IT Deanship
Led the university's digital transformation through a pivotal expansion phase, contributing to developing the digital infrastructure, raising the readiness of electronic services, and strengthening technical governance.
- Led more than 60 staff members — engineers, developers, administrators, and technical support teams.
- Oversaw six technical departments and developed performance indicators and follow-up mechanisms.
- Led execution of the university's technical strategy in line with its institutional goals.
- Oversaw the development and operation of more than 10 institutional systems supporting academic and administrative processes.
- Led the transition to electronic correspondence, starting with adopting an institutional email policy through to university leadership's adoption of digital applications for official correspondence.
- Founded the university's first women's software-development team and established a unit specialized in women's information security.
- Managed relationships with technology companies and vendors, and ensured the quality of delivered technical solutions.
From lab to policy to practice
Dr. AlHumoud brings together scientific research and executive leadership, driven by a conviction that the true value of research lies in its applied impact. Her career has therefore focused on translating scientific knowledge into national initiatives, advanced technologies, innovative products, and strategic partnerships that contribute to advancing the AI ecosystem and strengthening the presence of the Arabic language within it.
More than 48 published scientific research papers.
Hundreds of scientific citations.
Published in prestigious journals, periodicals, and scientific conferences.
Reviewed and supervised hundreds of papers and projects in AI and computer science.
Research and products in production
Arabic Smart Text Editor
Led the development of a national project applying AI techniques to improve the quality of Arabic texts, as part of the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language's initiatives.
MARSA
Led the development of one of the largest sentiment-analysis corpora for the Najdi dialect, which has become a reference for researchers in Arabic language processing.
Rahhal Chatbot
Led the development of a bilingual intelligent assistant to support tourism in Saudi Arabia.
Government AI Projects
Oversaw research and applied projects in sentiment analysis, Arabic data, and AI techniques for the benefit of government entities.
Riyadh Metro Movement Analysis
Collaborated with MIT and the Center for Complex Engineering Systems at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, and published the scientific output.
From research to venture
Dr. AlHumoud brings together academic expertise, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship, working to turn scientific research outputs into practical solutions and technical products. She currently serves as Chief AI Officer at Wittify, which develops advanced solutions in intelligent agents, generative AI, and Arabic language processing technologies. She has also provided technical and research consulting to more than 100 startups, contributing to technology solution evaluation, AI strategy design, and enabling innovation across the public and private sectors.
Advisory engagements
Dr. AlHumoud has provided executive and technical consulting to a number of government and private entities in the following areas:
Publications in print
The Dynamic Counter-Based Broadcast for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
A research monograph on counter-based broadcasting protocols for reducing redundancy in mobile ad hoc network communication.
Arc... Without End
An Arabic-language book by Dr. Sarah AlHumoud.
Your First Research Paper: From Idea to Publication and Presentation
A practical guide to writing and publishing your first scientific paper.
Keynotes & professional participation
Dr. Sarah AlHumoud has participated as a keynote speaker and lecturer at a number of local and international conferences and forums, presenting insights on artificial intelligence, innovation, digital transformation, entrepreneurship, and scientific research. Organizations she has spoken for include: