Dr. Ameena Al-Sumaiti is a highly accomplished scientist with passion and vision for research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and future foresight aiming to drive positive impact in UAE and worldwide. Listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2022, 2023 and 2024 for research standardized citation, she is an expert in the fields of sustainability renewable energy, Hydrogen, operation research, smart city planning, transportation networks, water-energy nexus, data analytics, AI applications, Cyber-Physical Systems, Hydrogen, energy policy, energy economics and other aspects of energy, technology, and advanced sciences.
She is a fellow of the Arab American Frontiers and an alumna of National Experts Program, representing “Advanced Sciences and Research” sector, contributing to economic growth. She was on the shortlist of a national talent search. She received her Doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada). She was a visiting professor at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and is currently with Khalifa University as an Associate Professor and leading the Smart Operation Research Lab.
She received more than 90 awards, recognitions, and local and international fellowships, and has made significant contributions to society. She has 8-electronic newsletters, 11 book chapters, 121 journal articles, 55 conference articles and 2 competition reports among other strategic reports. She served as reviewer of strategic reports including Environmental Centennial by AD Environment Agency and United Nations Environment Programme - Copenhagen Climate Centre Climate Technology Progress Report among others and was among the UAE delegations to China, Italy, etc. She served as non-profit advisor for many companies in the energy domain, where she offered her technical expertise on projects and guided on strategic projects of priorities and of innovation potential.
Dr. Al-Sumaiti is a senior IEEE member, member of UAE Thinkers and a member of Sustainability Champion Society. Currently, she serves as an editor of Discover Journal by Springer Nature, as Associate Editor of Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Engineering and Architecture, editorial board member of International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems. Also, she served as guest editor of other journals.
Dr. Al-Sumaiti is the lead of “Renewable Energy Integration and Storage Systems” in the Advanced Power and Energy Centre and lead of Supporting Technologies - Demand Response of the Virtual Research Institute. She has recently been recognized as a global 50 expert. She has served as a keynote speaker at various events, including EUROSUN, and as a panelist in numerous others, such as the World Policy Conference.
Dr. Ameena is certified by McGill Executive Institute. She is also certified as Scrum Master including Certification on Agile Leadership Essentials, Agile Leadership for Organizations, Agile Leadership for Teams.
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