Areej Alokaili, PhD
Prior to joining the faculty at King Saud University, I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. During my time there, I was a member of the esteemed Natural Language Processing research group, which is known for being one of the largest and most successful in the UK.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. 2021.
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2014.
- B.Sc. in Information Technology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2006.
Academic Experience:
- Aug 2021—Now Assistant Professor – Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Jan 2018—Jan 2020 Teaching Assistant – Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- Sep 2014—Jan 2017 Lecturer – Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Sep 2011—Sep 2014 Teaching Assistant – Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Service Activities:
- Head of IS Bachelor Graduation Project Committee.
- Member of CCIS Media and Digital Content Committee.
- Member of CCIS Housing Committee. Member of CCIS Lab Committee.
- Member of IS Graduate Registration Committee.
Selected Publications:
Areej Alokaili, Nikolaos Aletras, and Mark Stevenson. Re-ranking words to improve interpretability of automatically generated topics. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics—Long paper (IWCS ’19), pages 43—54. Gothenburg, Sweden, 2019.
Areej Alokaili, Nikolaos Aletras, and Mark Stevenson. Automatic generation of topic labels. In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), pages 1965—1968, China, 2020.
Professional Development Activities:
2019 Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2019), Lisbon, Portugal.
2019 Deep Learning Fundamentals Workshop, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Sheffield, UK.