Dr. Kurdi is a professor of distributed artificial intelligence at King Saud University. She completed her PhD from Brunel University, School of Engineering and design,  in 2010. She then  started as a research fellow for MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics for three years. Later, she joined MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering , with which she is still affiliated. Dr. Kurdi also invested in managerial skills, achieving executive certificates in Management and Leadership and in Strategy and Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, along with a Harvard Business School certificate in Human Resources Management. Dr. Kurdi has been working in academia for over ten years, during which she took on various responsibilities and leadership roles, including being the Vice Chair of the Department of Computer Sciences, Vice Dean of the College of Computer and Information Sciences and Vice Dean of the Career and Entrepreneurship Centre. From these different positions and rich experiences, she has cultivated strong academic, managerial and leadership skills, as well as a deep commitment to the betterment of academia.

She is a Full professor of Computer Science Department- College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University and Research affiliate of Department of Mechanical Engineering – MIT, Cambridge, MA.