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Personal Statement
Research Associate in Human-AI Interaction at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Ayah is specialising in participatory approaches to AI auditing. She is part of a consortium of seven academic institutions and over 20 partner organisations addressing the challenges of assessing the potential harms of predictive and generative. Her research is focused on AI and Cultural Heritage. Ayah contributes to developing intuitive workbenches and methodologies that guide stakeholders in assessing AI quality and harms. She is also involved in training programs to equip stakeholders with the skills needed for participatory AI audits and supports efforts to establish a certification framework for AI solutions. Ayah is a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher in Domain Specific Systems for Information Extraction & Retrieval (DoSSIER), specialising in Information Retrieval and Human Behaviour. She holds a Master's degree in Data Science and brings six years of industrial experience in Software Quality Assurance Engineering and Data Science.
Education/Academic qualification
Master in Science, Data Science, Southampton University
Award Date: 18 Nov 2018
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineer, An-Najah National University
Award Date: 25 May 2012
Keywords
- information retrieval
- Information seeking behaviour
- Information behaviour
- computer science
- Exploratory Search
- Academic Search
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Searching the literature: an analysis of an exploratory search task
Soufan, A., Ruthven, I. & Azzopardi, L., 14 Mar 2022, p. 146-157. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Untangling the concept of task in information seeking and retrieval
Soufan, A., Ruthven, I. & Azzopardi, L., 11 Jul 2021, ICTIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. New York, NY., p. 73–81 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
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Thesis
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Exploring exploratory search when conducting literature review tasks
Soufan, A. (Author), Ruthven, I. (Supervisor) & Azzopardi, L. (Supervisor), 11 Apr 2024Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis