She holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Prior to joining UAEU, Fida was a staff scientist at Sidra Medical and Research Centre where she worked on privacy preserving data sharing and mining as part of the Qatar National Genome Project. Before that she worked as a research scientist at the IBM Canada Research and Development Centre. She worked there on the secure and private mining of health data. Dr. Dankar was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Electronic Health Information Laboratory in the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Her postdoctoral work was devoted to the sharing of health information for secondary purposes, whilst protecting the privacy of patients and the identity of healthcare providers.