Key details
Dr Yasmine Arafa
Academic Portfolio Lead for Computer Science (AI-driven Solutions and Blockchain)
Yasmine has over 15 years experience in software engineering and IT project management across vertical segments commercially and in academia. She has led research and development projects that involved the multi-disciplinary areas of affective computing, social interaction design, multi-agent systems, and their application in real-time smart systems, Her focus is on creating new technology with social significance. Recent projects include context-aware smart systems that enable next generation applications for mobile, social computing and semantic web services.
Responsibilities within the university
Senior Lecturer in Disruptive Technologies, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Academic Portfolio Lead for Computer Science
Recognition
- Member ACM, IEEE, BCS
- Program chair and member of steering committee for 11th ICGS3-17, International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability
Research / Scholarly interests
Affective computing, HCI, Mobile Apps, Data Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Software Engineering, Disruptive Technology, eLearning
Key funded projects
- PANDORA - Advanced Training Environment for Crisis Scenarios
- Funding body
- Nine partner EU FP7 project worth 2.93 million Euros. Winner of Joint ICT and Security Call FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1. Grant Agreement 225387.
- 1st January 2010 to 31st March 2012 I was a senior research fellow working on this project at the University of East London.
- External link: pandoraproject.eu/
Recent publications
Article
Alryalat, Saif Aldeen , Al-Antary, Mohammad, Arafa, Yasmine, Azad, Babak , Boldyreff, Cornelia , Ghnaimat, Tasneem , Al-Antary, Nada , Alfegi, Safa , Elfalah, Mutasem , Abu-Ameerh, Mohammed (2022), Deep learning prediction of response to anti-vegf among diabetic macular edema patients: Treatment response analyzer system (tras). MDPI. In: , , , . MDPI, Diagnostics, 12: 312 (2) . pp. 1-15 2075-4418 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12020312).
Al-Antary, Mohammad and , Arafa, Yasmine (2021), Multi-scale attention network for diabetic retinopathy classification. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Access, 9 . pp. 54190-54200 2169-3536 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3070685).
Arafa, Yasmine , Boldyreff, Cornelia, Malik, Asif, Wicks, Alan , Windall, Gillian (2016), The BCS appathon challenge at Greenwich. Educational Development Unit, University of Greenwich. In: , , , . Educational Development Unit, University of Greenwich, Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 8 (12) ISSN: 2044-0081 (Print), (doi: https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/compass/article/view/269/316).
Book section
Arafa, Yasmine , Boldyreff, Cornelia, Morris, Miriam (2016), Payments as we know them are changing – ebarts the Social eCurrency: Tomorrow’s cash. Palgrave Macmillan UK. In: , , In: B. Batiz-Lazo, L. Efthymiou (eds.), The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary views on the Cashless Economy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, UK (1st) . ISBN: 9781137602305 (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Conference proceedings
Rahman, Md. Abdur , Loukas, George, Abdullah, Syed Maruf, Abdu, Areej , Rahman, Syed Sadiqur , Hassanain, Elham , Arafa, Yasmine (2019), Blockchain and IoT-based Secure Multimedia Retrieval System for a Massive Crowd: Sharing Economy Perspective. ACM. In: , , , Proceedings of the 2019 on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. ACM, New York, USA . pp. 404-407 . ISBN: 9781450367653 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3323873.3326924).