Sara El-Metwally

Sara El-Metwally received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Mansoura University, Faculty of Computers and Information, Egypt, in 2007, and the M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Mansoura University, Faculty of Computers and Information, Egypt, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. She completed part of her Ph.D. at University of Southern California, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Los Angeles, California, USA as a visiting scholar in Waterman lab according to the Joint Supervision Mission Protocol between Mansoura University and University of Southern California.   
In 2008, she joined the Computer Science Department, Mansoura University, as a Teaching Assistant, and in 2011 as an Assistant Lecturer and she became an Assistant Professor in 2017. Her Current Research Interests include Genomic Data Analysis, Biological Data Mining, Genome Alignment and Assembly, Metagenomic Data Analysis, RNA-seq Data Analysis and Application of Machine and Deep learning in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Dr. Sara is a Google Anita Borg scholar in 2012 and Arabic Women in Computing (ArabWIC) member since 2013. She is responsible for preparing National Academic Reference Standards for Medical Informatics Department at Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University Egypt, and Organizing Scientific and Educational Technical Clubs for Engineering and Bioinformatics.      
Dr. Sara was the recipient of the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019), Scientific Publishing Grant award (2018), GHC Faculty Scholarship (2018), Joint Supervision Mission Scholarship from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education (2013), Google EMEA Grace Hopper Travel Grant (2013), Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (2012), Top Outstanding Student Award at Mansoura University, Ranked Second, Excellent grade with Honor (2007). .