Professor of Data Science, Department of Computer Science Director, Centre for Mathematics and Data Science School of Computing and Engineering

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The first data scientist in ATCO Group, he is currently leading analytics in the Global Electricity Business Unit Innovation team.He has a double major in science and engineering and has completed his Master’s from the University of Alberta. He has worked with several startups in the area of e-commerce, engineering operations, and asset management and has deployed commercial AI technologies that have positively impacted multi-million dollars investments

His interests involve leveraging machine learning and big data analytics in the space of asset management, smart grids, outage management systems and energy trading.

Andrew runs a Data Science and Machine Learning blog at www.analytics-link.com, hosting a wide variety of articles and posts from an engaged online community, including recent interviews with arguably the most famous name in R, Hadley Wickham, young A.I. superstar Tanmay Bakshi, and LinkedIn Data Science Influencers Eric Weber, and Favio Vasquez.

Andrew Jones has over 10 years experience in the fields of Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning within the Digital, Retail, Telecommunications, Customer Loyalty, and Gaming industries. He is the founder & director of analytics-link, recently working with companies such as Amazon, and Sony Playstation.

Murad Al-Rajab is in the Software Engineering Department at ALHOSN University, Abu Dhabi – UAE. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He received MSc in Information Systems Management and MSc in Computer Science. He has a BSc in Computer Science. He has more than 12 years of teaching experience in software engineering and computer science and through his academic life; he published scientific research papers in international journals and conference

His research interests cover multiple areas in Bioinformatics, Mobile Learning & Applications, Smart Cities Applications, voice recognition, and computer learning. His current research involves the study of efficient algorithms for colon cancer classifications.

Dr. Haythem El-Messiry received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Ulm, Germany.He is the chair of information technology, school of engineering and technology, Aldar University College- Dubai

His principals in research and teaching involve artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision, with respect to different application domains such as government, medical section, and transportation. Moreover his supervision to a number of industry projects with respect to intelligent system solutions.

Fairouz Kamareddine has been involved in a number of worldwide consultancy assignments, especially on education and research issues working for United Nations and the EU. Her research interest includes Interface of Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science. She has held numerous invited positions at universities worldwide. She has well over 100 published articles and a number of books. She has played leading roles in the development, administration, and implementation of interdisciplinary, international, and academic collaborations and networks.

Big Data, Data Mining

Fionn Murtagh is Professor of Data Science and was Professor of Computer Science, including Department Head, in many universities. Fionn was Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Journal (British Computer Society) for more than 10 years, and is an Editorial Board member of many journals. With over 300 refereed articles and 30 books authored or edited, his fellowships and scholarly academies include: Fellow of: British Computer Society (FBCS), Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA), International Association for Pattern Recognition (FIAPR), Royal Statistical Society (FRSS), Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Elected Member: Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), Academia Europaea (MAE). Senior Member IEEE. Board member, EuADS, European Association of Data Science

Fionn research interests include Data Science, Pattern Recognition in astronomy

Dr Soly Mathew Biju is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong in Dubai. Dr Biju has achieved the Chartered IT Professional status which is a symbol of excellence in the field of IT and is also an ISTQB-certified software testing professional

Her research interests include software testing, cryptography, e-learning, innovations in teaching, agile software development, online teaching, network security and programming techniques. She has papers published in reputed journals and books and presented and reviewed papers at national and international conferences and journals. She has been a scientific committee member on various national and international conferences.