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DR ZAINAB ALQENAEI

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Office Location
SSUC CBA South Campus
Associate Professor
Degrees and Certificates

PhD, Business Administration - Information Systems, Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder

MBA, Information Systems Track, University of Pittsburgh

BS, Computer Engineering, Kuwait University

Professional Experience

Committee member of the consultative committee for Generation Science Program at the Kuwait Foundation for The Advancement of Sciences. April 2023 - Present. 

Assistant Vice President for Academic Support Services for Information Technology, Kuwait University, April 2023 – May 2025.

Committee member of the digital transformation strategies and roadmap development at Kuwait Foundation for The Advancement of Science (KFAS). November 2023 – April 2024.  

Committee member of the consultative committee for educational and pedagogical affairs at the Kuwait Foundation for The Advancement of Sciences. May 2022 – November 2022. 

Vice chair of the digital transformation committee at the National Bureau for Academic Accreditation and Education Quality Assurance (Ministry of Higher Education). December 2021 – March 2022. 

 

Research Interests

Business Analytics and Data Science

Academic Subjects

Business Information and Technology

Introduction to Information Systems

Business Problem Solving and Programming

Information Systems Development Methodologies

Enterprise Architecture, Systems, & Technologies

Business Application Development

Introduction to Electronic Commerce

Information Systems Project Management

Data and Information Management

Special Topics (Business Analytics)

Internship in Information Systems

Project in Information Systems

Publications

AlQenaei, Z.M. (2025). Evolution and Optimization of Language Model Architectures: From Foundations to Future Directions. In: Bansal, J.C., Borah, S., Hussain, S., Salhi, S. (eds) Computing and Machine Learning. CML 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1144. Springer, Singapore.

Aldekheel, A. Y., Khalil, O., & AlQenaei, Z. M. (2022). Factors impacting teachers’ continued IT adoption in pre-college education. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 21, 465-500. 

Alshammari, B.M., Aldhmour, F., AlQenaei, Z.M. and Almohri, H. (2022), "Stock market prediction by applying big data mining", Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 139-152. 

AlQenaei, Z. M., Khalil, O., & Aldekheel, A. Y. (2021). Integrating information technology in precollege education in Kuwait: Teachers’ perspectives on a botched initiative. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 20, 529-558. 

Alenezi, M.N.; AlQenaei, Z.M. (2021). Machine Learning in Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter. Future Internet, 13(10): 244.  

AlQenaei, Z. M., & Monarchi, D. E. (2021).  Text Mining Data from Students to Reveal Meaningful Information for Educators.   Studies in Business and Economics, 24 (1). 

AlQenaei, Z. M., & Monarchi, D. E. (2016). The Use of Learning Techniques to Analyze the Results of a Manual Classification System. Knowledge Organization, 43(1). 

AlQenaei, Z. M. (2016). Text Analysis of Clinicians’ Reports to Examine Mental Health Recovery Indicators. Arab Journal of Administrative Sciences, 23(1).