Dr. Al Hmouz is a Full Professor in the field of Gifted Education. She received her Ph.D. in Special Education with a concentration in gifted children with learning issues from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her main area of interest is developing assessment and evaluation tools of academic skills and cognitive abilities. Specifically, she is interested in exploring cognitive abilities for gifted students and standardizing cognitive and achievement tests in large scale projects. Dr. Al Hmouz is the Co-founder of Technological Innovations for Middle East Education (www.time.edu.jo) initiative, and the second author of Woodcock-Johnson Arabic Tests of Cognitive and Achievement Abilities. Dr. Al Hmouz has published nineteen research articles, one book, and one manual related to giftedness, learning disabilities, psychological testing, and inclusive education. In Addition, Dr. Al Hmouz is the Principal Investigator/Co-PI of five International Funded Projects ($ 326,750 Grants) to support gifted students and students with special needs in inclusive education. 

Before joining HBMSU for the position of a full-time professor of gifted education, Dr. Al Hmouz has served as a full professor of Special Education for the Department of Learning and Developmental Disabilities at the Arabian Gulf University-Bahrain and for the Department of Counseling and Special Education at Mutah University-Jordan. Dr. Al Hmouz has lived in several different countries and did her doctoral work in gifted education in Australia. Throughout her education and work experiences, she has developed a strong background with an international perspective in both gifted education and special education. One major task that she helped to accomplish was to coordinate and manage a large assessment project in Jordan involving data collection and analysis. She and her colleagues were able to standardize an Arabic edition of the Woodcock-Johnson IV, a widely used test in the United States. In addition, to her experience with norm-referenced tests, she has also engaged in work exploring the use of curriculum-based measurements (CBMs) for identifying students with special needs and then following up on their progress. Dr. Al Hmouz has made numerous scholarly presentations at both national and international conferences. She has also conducted training workshops, written article reviews for journals, served on many different committees, and engaged in volunteer work. She has supervised students and has taught a wide range of courses that address both gifted and special education.