Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Computing,  the Course Leader for the MSc in Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning and a member of the computational intelligence research group. I received my PhD in computing from the University of Portsmouth in 2018. I am the Module Leader for the Applied Machine Learning & Data Mining of BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Analytics.

In addition, I am the Faculty of Technology and the School of Computing Early Career Researcher Representative and Athena Swan Team co-leader.

My research is in the field of Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. I have collaborated with researchers in several other disciplines and participated in multiple academic and industrial projects. I am a member of several program committees for international conferences and workshops. I was a keynote speaker at the Women in Data Science (WiDS 2018) Conference UK, and a panellist for Women in Science and Technology: Experiences which took place at the INTAP’20 conference, in Norway. I have won several awards including the bronze prize in the annual international competition on best Research & Innovation projects in Cyber Security, run by the Korean Industrial Technology Security Hub.

Research interests

Available PhD (Self-Funded) Projects:

• AI-Driven Analysis of Online Misogyny
• Enhancing Text Mining through Advanced AI and Machine Learning Techniques for Knowledge Discovery
• Exploit Learning Related Emotion to Improve students Engagement and Motivation in Higher Education
• Predicting Psychosis Journeys: A Data-Driven Approach with Predictive Modeling