Chadi Saad, PhD 

Acting Information Infrastructure Director and Bioinformatics Core Manager

Dr. Chadi Saad is the Acting Director of Intelligent Systems and IT Operations, bringing more than a decade of experience in high-performance computing (HPC), big data, software development, and bioinformatics. He joined the Qatar Genome Program in 2020 and subsequently progressed into leadership roles at the Qatar Precision Health Institute, leading bioinformatics operations, managing large genomic datasets, and evaluating HPC infrastructure. He established the genomic analysis pipeline to streamline data processing and produced high-quality genomic data releases encompassing more than 35,000 genomes for use by researchers.

His earlier work in Lille, France, combined clinical bioinformatics, infrastructure development, and teaching. He contributed to designing and setting up HPC systems at Lille University Hospital, developed diagnostic analysis pipelines and software tools, and taught programming, algorithms, and databases at Polytech Lille.

He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Lille, France, and a master’s degree from the University of Rouen, France. His professional development includes AI in healthcare training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and leadership training at Georgetown University in Qatar.

His scholarly contributions include research published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, and Nature Genetics, alongside three authored chapters in Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.