155 Papers Discussed at the International Conference on Data Analytics for Business and Industry (3) Dr. Al-Mudhahka: UoB is Looking into Innovative Investment Methods in Digital Transformation

Sakhir – University of Bahrain (Yasmeen Khalaf)
07 November 2022
The President of the University of Bahrain (UoB), Dr. Jawaher bint Shaheen Al-Mudhahka, confirmed that UoB is eager to look into innovative ways to invest in digital transformation and adopt data analysis sciences, pointing to the University’s strategy to join the economic development boom, which is based on data, and join forces with the government of the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is keen to consolidate its position as a center for influential and innovative technologies and institutions, as part of the government’s information technology development plan.
Dr. Al-Mudhahka gave a speech during the opening of the International Conference on Data Analysis for Business and Industry (DATA 22) in its third edition. The recently held conference was organized by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at UoB, in cooperation with the Global Group for Artificial Intelligence (Informs) – Bahrain Branch, with technical support from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
As Dr. Al-Mudhahka stated that, “The Conference has proven itself as a rich platform that attracts researchers from all over the world who share the same vision, to build the future of the economy through data analytics to achieve what is known as a data-driven economy,” expressing the University’s pride in the participation of high-level speakers in the Conference, and the increase in the number of research papers presented by faculty members and graduate students from the University’s various colleges.
For her part, the Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research, Dr. Athra Sayed Abbas Al-Mousawi, affirmed the Deanship’s endeavor to build an appropriate research environment that provides graduate students with opportunities and incentives to support the development of their research skills, expressing her pride that 84 out of 155 research papers presented at the Conference were by UoB postgraduate students.
Dr. Al-Mousawi referred to the strategic research plan of the Deanship of Graduate Studies at UoB, which gives priority to the establishment of local and international partnerships to promote innovations through scientific research, and she mentioned that the establishment of various scientific activities with the participation of many colleges at UoB, which work side by side with international partners from prestigious universities and institutions.
The Conference aimed to provide an international platform for researchers, data scientists, business managers and industry practitioners to meet, exchange ideas and leverage new approaches to address the technical challenges of a data-driven world. Also, the Conference is a multidisciplinary forum for exchanging knowledge, discussing the latest innovations, trends and practical challenges faced with possible solutions in the broad areas of big data and emerging data analytics across all business and industry sectors, and it aims to encourage sustainable economic growth through data technology.
The conference hosted two keynote speakers: Dr. Jassim Haji, President of the Global Artificial Intelligence Group in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Director of the International Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security for Research and Innovations at the University of Asia, in Taiwan, Professor Dr. Brij Gupta.
About 155 scientific research papers on a number of topics were discussed, the most important were: big data, data mining, e-commerce, data optimization, data science, risk analysis, data analysis, cloud computing, security analysis, data visualization, business analysis, financial analysis, insurance statistics, pattern recognition, project management, business intelligence, women in data science, statistics in the IT industries, supply chain management, data science applications, energy systems and efficiency, quality control and reliability, image analysis and tomography, statistical and financial modeling, bioinformatics and decision-making in health policy, and artificial intelligence for business and industry.

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