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Dr. Majdi Owda, Ph.D., PGC AP, MSc, BSc (Hons), UK-FHEA
UNESCO Chair on AI and Data Science for Sustainable Development

Dr Majdi Owda is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Faculty of Graduate Studies. In addition, he has been a UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Sustainable Development since 2022. During his academic career, Dr. Owda worked as a Vice President for Academic Affairs - Ramallah Campus at the Arab American University – Palestine from August 2025 to August 2026 and worked as the dean of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the Arab American University – Palestine from September 2022 to September 2025, before that, as a head of the Department of Natural, Engineering, and Technology sciences in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Arab American University from September 2020 to September 2022. Also, Dr. Owda worked in the School of Computing, Mathematics, and Digital Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, from 2009 to 2020. He gained a BSc in Computer Science from the Arab American University in 2004, an MSc by research in Computer Science with distinction from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011.

His main research interests are applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for interdisciplinary research and development, such as AI in Healthcare, AI in Cyber Security, AI in Banking, AI in Finance, AI in Social Media, AI in Education, AI in Industrial Applications, AI in Chatbots and AI in Natural Language Interfaces to Relational Databases. In addition, to areas such as Data Science, Conversational Informatics, Conversational Agents, Knowledge Trees, Knowledge Engineering, Planning, Information Extraction, AI Techniques for the Help of Society, Web/Data/Text Mining, Digital Forensics Processes and Frameworks, Digital Forensics Artefacts, Information Retrieval from Large Data Sources, Internet of Things Frameworks and Internet of Things Digital Forensics Artefacts and Security.

For Research Outputs, please see Dr. Owda's Google Scholar Account

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=c-FovIQAAAAJ&hl=en