AWARDS & C0MPETITI0NS

FirstPlace: Farha Hussain

Farha participated in the Robofest at Lawrence Technological Universityas partofateamfromJeddahUniversity. They won the first place at this competition which is a festival featuring competitions and events with autonomous robots. The competition promotes STEAM and Computer Science principles to students who design and program the robots.

First winners from the UGRF

Overall First Place Winner: Mehreen Junaid and Hajer Abbas

Title: Longitudinal analysis of the effectiveness of VR based parent child interactive training program on promoting positive parenting

Ideathon 2023

Targeted school students to bring up an idea of metaverse-based solution for a challenge either in Education, Health, or Tourism and Entertainment.

ITAS Youth Competition

Participated with ”Mapping the Research Landscape of Covid-19 and Artificial Intelligence Using the Lens Database” has been accepted for presentation at the international conference on Innovation and TechnologicalAdvancesofSistanbilty.

Dr. Akila Sarirete

Associate Professor ＆ Dean of Effat College of Engineering

Dr. Akila Sarirete is Dean of Effat College of Engineering at Effat University. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science and Knowledge Management. Her main research interests are in artificial intelligence, knowledge management, communities of practice, machine learning, sentiment analysis, big data, and technology enhanced learning.

She presented her research work in several conferences in different countries.

Dr. Sarirete has a vast experience in software development industry and software engineering. She is as well interested in engineering education, smart cities innovation especially, the human aspect and the collaborative work.

Dr. Zain Balfagih

Assistant Professor ＆ Chair of CS Department

Dr Zain completed his PhD in Computer and Information Technology in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Malaysia (2013). His principal research interests lie in the field of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud computing, and wireless networking. He is currently working on Big data and Internet of Things (IoT). In the same time, he is working on providing a mechanism for utilizing IoT for water & energy applications. He also tries to analyze the obstacles that minimize the adoption of these technologies in Middle East countries and tries to find the solutions to overcome these problems.

Dr. Zain used to work as a researcher in several universities in Malaysia. He joined Effat university in 2012 and he is still working there as Chair of Computer Science Department.

Dr. Enfel Barkat

Assistant Professor, Chair of the ECE Department ＆ MSEE Program Director

Dr. Enfel Barkat received her Master of Science in 2013 and PhD in 2019 both degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, USA.

Currently, Dr. Enfel is an Assistant Professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Effat University, KSA.

She is also the department head and Director of the Master of Energy Program. Her research interests include cognitive radio networks, internet of space and satellite communications.

Dr. Enfel is a Senior Member of IEEE.