Dr
Abdallah
Yaghi

BSc (UCLAN), PhD (Lincoln)

School of Information, Journalism and Communication

University Teacher in Data Science / Analytics

Abdallah Yaghi
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a.m.yaghi@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Abdallah Yaghi
School of Information, Journalism and Communication

Room C257
The Wave
2 Whitham Road

Sheffield

S10 2AH

Profile
I obtained a Ph.D in Computing and Data Science from the University of Lincoln in 2022 with a thesis title “ Native Language Identification through keystroke dynamics”. This is an exciting interdisciplinary area of research that fuses various scientific fields within Data Science including: Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Cyber security. Previously, I completed a BSc in Information systems at the University of Central Lancashire in 2010.
 
I have worked as a Teaching Assistant at University of Central Lancashire and industrial firms such as A & I Tech Ltd and TopWest.
Research interests

My areas of research include Behavioural Biometrics, Authorship Analysis and Machine learning in cybersecurity.

Teaching activities
  • IJC105 - Practical Programming for Data Science 1
  • IJC119 - Practical Programming for Data Science 2
  • IJC201 - Practical Programming for Data Science 2
  • IJC212 - Databases and Beyond
  • IJC309 - Building AI Applications
  • IJC437 - Introduction to Data Science
  • IJC428 - Data Mining & AI
  • IJC470 - Research Methods and Dissertation Prep
Professional activities and memberships

I am a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.