Omneya Attallah is a Professor of Biomedical Image and Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT). She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 2006 and 2009, respectively, from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Egypt, where she was awarded full scholarships for both degrees. She later earned her Ph.D. from Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Prof Attallah is the founding member of the Wearables, Biosensing, and Biosignal Processing Laboratory (WeBios) at the AASTMT. Her research focuses on developing intelligent tools using artificial intelligence to improve medical diagnosis and prognosis, and employing sensors and biosensors to enable long-term patient monitoring and remote rehabilitation. She has also worked on developing assistive technologies to enhance the quality of life for people with disabilities and to support stress management. She has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in her field based on citation metrics for four consecutive years (2022–2025), according to Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier, and among the top 0.05% globally in Deep Learning according to ScholarGPS. She received the 2025 Women’s Impact Award from the German Falling Walls Foundation in collaboration with Elsevier and Volkswagen, as well as the Bioinformatics Sciences Award from Biosciences Research Awards 2023 in recognition of her contributions to artificial intelligence and biological sciences. Dr. Attallah has contributed to numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and holds editorial positions in several prestigious journals published by Springer Nature and Wiley. She is also a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).
