Omneya Attallah

Omneya Attallah is a Professor of Biosignal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Egypt. She is a founding member of the WeBios Lab, where her research focuses on developing intelligent systems for medical diagnosis and prognosis, long-term patient monitoring, assistive technologies, and stress management. She has been recognized among the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists by the Stanford/Elsevier database (2022–2024) and ranked in the top 0.05% of global scholars according to the 2024 ScholarGPS rankings. Her awards include the Bioinformatics Sciences Award, the Best Presented Paper Award at the ICICM conference, and travel awards from IEEE and AWC. She has contributed to numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects. Omneya serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and holds editorial roles in several prestigious journals. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and affiliated with several global scientific societies, including ACM and OWSD.

Professor Omneya Attallah is a 2025 Falling Walls Winner in the Women's Impact Award category.

BrAID: Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Resource-Limited Settings via Novel Cost-Effective Non-invasive Biomarkers and Artificial Intelligence

Breast cancer diagnostics face limitations—radiation exposure, invasiveness, and high costs. This project creates BrAID, a portable and painless AI-powered tool that detects cancer biomarkers noninvasively and affordably, giving women in underserved regions access to life-saving early diagnosis.