Dr Alia Abdelmoty

Biography

Education and qualifications

• 1994: PhD in Computer Science, University of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1990: MSc in Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1987: BEng  in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Career overview

• 2018 - present: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Univeristy, School of Computer Science & Informatics
• 2001 - July 2018: Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics

Honours and awards

Sustained exceptional performance	Cardiff University	01/06/2014
Best paper award	IARIA ALLDATA 2016	15/03/2016
Best paper award	IARIA GEOProcessing 2014	06/05/2014
Best paper award	AI-2003	01/03/2004
Finalist	Machine Intelligence competition 2003	07/11/2003

Professional memberships

Fellow	Higher Education Academy	2007-present
Member	IFIP WG 2.6 on Databases	2005-2014

Academic positions

• 1995 - 2000: Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales
• 1990-1994: Research Associate, Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, University of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland

Publications

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My interests cover a range of topics related to modeling, structuring, visualisation and intelligent retrieval of spatially referenced and spatiotemporal information.  One key area of interest is the development of qualitative spatiotemporal representation and reasoning techniques and their practical realisation and use in large spatial data stores and on the Semantic Web. I am actively working in the area of geographic information retrieval, researching methods for developing and managing geo-ontologies, as well as methods for modeling and discovering spatiotemporal semantics in the context of the Social and Semantic Geospatial Web.

Supervision

• Modelling geographic places and neighbourhoods on the Linked Data Web
• Privacy of personal location
• Personal activity monitoring
• Indoor mobility tracking for healthy living

Past projects

I was the main supervisor for:

• Fatma Al-rayes - Location Privacy Awareness on Geo-Social Networks :Enhancing Awareness with Feedback Solutions
  (awarded 2017)

• Khalid Al-Muzaini – Qualitative Modelling of Place on the Linked Data Web and GIS
  (awarded 2017)
• Soha M.A. Ehsan - Spatiotemporal User and Place Modelling in the Geo-Social Web
  (awarded 2016)
• Ehab El-Gindy -- Extracting Place Semantics from Geo-Folksonomies
  (awarded 2014)

• Ahmed Al-Azzawi -- Extracting Profiles from Human Activities and Services of Visited Places in Mobility Logs
  (awarded 2011)

• Phil Smart  – A Semantic Web Rule Language for Geospatial Domains
  (awarded 2009)
• Andrew J. Morris – A visual approach to the development of spatial query languages for GIS
  (awarded 2003)

I co-supervised

• Mark M. Hall -- Modelling and reasoning with quantitative representations of vague spatial language used in photographic image captions
  (awarded 2011)
• Eman M.G. Younis- Hybrid Geospatial Query Processing on the Semantic Web
  (awarded 2014)