
Dr Shaheen Khatoon
Senior Lecturer
AI & Computer Vision, Data Science & Machine Learning, Big Data and Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge AI and Cloud Computing, NLP & Multimodal Information Processing
Department of Engineering & Computing , School of Architecture Computing and Engineering
Dr Shaheen Khatoon has been a Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering since January 2023.
She received her PhD in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2012. Throughout her career, she has been affiliated with various universities. Before joining UEL, she served as an Associate Professor at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University (China) and worked as an Assistant Professor at King Faisal University (Saudi Arabia) and Nanchang University (China).
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Applied Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R China
- MS Software Engineering, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Master’s in Computer Science, Islamic International University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Areas Of Interest
- Data Science
- IT Project Management
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
OVERVIEW
Shaheen's primary area of research is Artificial Intelligence (AI), and she is particularly interested in data mining, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning, as well as their interdisciplinary applications to Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Smart Homes & IoT Applications, Social Network Analytics, and Precision Agriculture. She finds these applications exciting because of their practical value and the inspiration they provide for new problems, which can prompt the development of new theories and algorithms that have not been previously investigated. As a result, Shaheen's research work combines both theoretical and practical aspects of AI techniques to solve real-world problems.
Shaheen has received various research grants and completed numerous research projects in collaboration with industry partners. She has authored over 40 publications in prestigious journals and supervised several postgraduate and undergraduate research projects, with some of them showing a high impact in the field. With a decade of experience in teaching a diverse range of computing courses, extensive experience in curriculum development, and higher education quality assurance, Shaheen has made a lifelong commitment to computer science education. She is a senior member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
CURRENT RESEARCH
Research and impact
- PI: Cloud-Enabled Social Media Analytics and Crowdsourcing Framework for Crisis Management and National Security. Led and managed a SAR 1.8 million grant by the Research and Development Office(RDO), Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2020 – 2023, Grant No. 523
- PI: “Development of an AI-powered system for automatic detection and management of plant disease, nutrition deficiency, and pest control”, SAR 30,000 grant from Deputyship for Research & Innovation, Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia, Jan 2020 – Dec 2020.
- CO-PI: Development of a Precision Agriculture Testbed using Low-cost IoT-based Data Collection and Cloud-based Computing Framework, SAR 30,000 grant from Deputyship for Research & Innovation, Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia, August 2020 – July 2021.
- PI: “Real-time social media analytics system for Saudi telecom company for Enhanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM)”, SAR 100,000 grant by Deanship of Scientific Research, King Faisal University, 2017 – 2019.
- CO-PI: “Ontology model for granular computing”, granted by Chinese National Natural Science Fund 2013- 2014, Grant No: 61070139.
- CO-PI: “Predicting Mortality rate of ICU patients using intelligent techniques”, granted by the Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province, 2012-2014, Grant No: 20132BDH80017.
MODULES
- CN5001-Business Intelligence Analysis
- CN7030-Machine Learning on Big Data
- CN7023-AI & Machine Vision
- CN7000-Dissertation
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications
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Full publications list
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- Application domains of aspect and sentiment classification techniques: A survey Neurocomputing. 622 (Art. 129237). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.129237
- Environmental Sustainability Through Optimal Energy Consumption Using IoT-Based Edge-Computing and Image Processing Exploring Pillars of Sustainability for Modern Age Improvements. IGI Global, pp.289-316
- Enhanced Arabic disaster data classification using domain adaptation PLoS ONE. 19 (4), p. e0301255. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301255

