I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. At UWE Bristol, I am a member of the Computer Science Research Centre and the Data Science and Mathematics Research Group, and I direct the MSc in Financial Technologies. I am a Faculty Member at Birzeit University in Palestine. I also lead AI and Data at Explore Learning, developing algorithmic personalisation for adaptive learning platforms, designing intelligent scaffolding systems grounded in Bayesian inference and Zone of Proximal Development theory, and managing data science teams delivering production ML at scale across the UK. I co-founded Siraj.app, an AI-driven platform using generative AI and LLMs to provide personalised academic and career guidance for secondary school students in Palestine.

My career has taken me through Palestine, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK. I completed my PhD and MSc at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, followed by a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Utrecht University and VORtech BV in the Netherlands, where I developed Par@Graph, the first parallel toolkit for constructing and analysing large-scale climate networks. The work was featured in Networks in Climate (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and continues to be used by oceanographers and climate scientists worldwide.

Over the years, I have led research with GE Aerospace, Innovate UK, and the British Council, co-founded three MSc programmes, and supervised over 40 MSc dissertations and multiple PhDs. I have lectured at universities across Europe, in China and Hong Kong, and served as a PhD external examiner in Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands.