Dr Annabel Latham

Who am I?

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http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annabel_Latham/
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Words of wisdom

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

How I’ll teach you

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD (Artificial intelligence)

MSc Computing

PGC Academic Practice

CIM Diploma in Marketing

BSc(Hons) Computing

FHEA

MBCS

SMIEEE

Other academic service (administration and management)

Chair IEEE UKI Women in Engineering https://www.ieee-ukandireland.org/affinity-groups/women-in-engineering/

Chair IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Graduate Student Research Grants committee https://cis.ieee.org/professional-development/research-grants

Committee Member IEEE CIS Education

Committee Member IEEE CIS Women in Computational Intelligence

Athena SWAN team member http://www.scmdt.mmu.ac.uk/athenaswan/

Why study Computer Science and Information Systems?

Undergraduate courses

I lecture on the following undergraduate unit:

• Information Systems Strategy (level 6) - Unit Leader

Postgraduate teaching

I lecture on the following postgraduate units:

• Information and Digital Media Systems
• Information Systems Management and Strategy - Unit Leader
• Information Systems (MSc Apprenticeship) - Unit Leader

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

PhD supervisions:

• Tulasi Kavarakuntla - Scalable Deep Learning for Big Data

PhD Completions:

• Dr. Noufa Alnajran  (PhD 2018) - A Semantic-based Framework for Clustering Social Data
• Dr. Sumayh Aljameel (PhD 2018)- Arabic Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System for High Functioning Autistic Children
• Dr. Khurim Shabaz (PhD 2017)- Conversational Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
• Dr. Mike Holmes (PhD 2017)- Comprehension based adaptive learning systems
• Dr. Omar Alobaidi (PhD 2015) - Arabic conversational agent for modern Islamic Education
  
  
  

Research expertise

My expertise is in Artificial Intelligence in Education, particularly learner profiling, natural language tutoring and adaptive systems. I also work in the following areas:

• Computational Intelligence
• Conversational Agents
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Agent Intelligence
• Knowledge Engineering
• Intelligent Systems
• Affective Computing
• Semantic Clustering of Social Media Text (Twitter)
• Information Systems Strategy: Strategic Use of Social Media
• Ethics and Trust of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Academic collaborations

EdTech lab at DFKI (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)), Berlin, Germany

EdTech lab at UoC, Barcelona, Spain

Publications

• Featured Works

  A. Latham, S. Goltz (2019). A Survey of the General Public’s Views on the Ethics of using AI in Education. In: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Chicago, USA, 25/6/2019.

  A. Latham, K. Crockett, D. McLean (2014). An adaptation algorithm for an intelligent natural language tutoring system. Computers and Education. 71, pp.97-110.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2012). A conversational intelligent tutoring system to automatically predict learning styles. Comput. Educ.. 59, pp.95-109.

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  (2019). Intelligent Systems and Applications. K. Arai, S. Kapoor, R. Bhatia. Springer International Publishing.

• Journal articles

  A. Latham, K. Crockett, D. McLean (2014). An adaptation algorithm for an intelligent natural language tutoring system. Computers and Education. 71, pp.97-110.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2012). A conversational intelligent tutoring system to automatically predict learning styles. Comput. Educ.. 59, pp.95-109.

• Chapters in books

  A. Latham (2022). Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems: The State of the Art. In: Women in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, pp.77-101.

  A. Latham, K. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2012). Adaptive tutoring in an intelligent conversational agent system. N-T. Nguyen. In: Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VIII. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (Germany), pp.146-167.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2011). Oscar: An Intelligent Adaptive Conversational Agent Tutoring System. J. O'Shea, NT. Nguyen, KA. Crockett, RJ. Howlett, LC. Jain. In: Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 5th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2011, Manchester, UK, June 29 - July 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, pp.563-572.

  A. Latham, K. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2010). Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System. In: Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2010. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp.131-140.

• Conferences

  K. Crockett, A. Latham, M. Wood, L. Abberley, M. Rawsthorne, et al. S. Attwood. (2023). Building Trust – The People’s Panel for AI. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI). 5/6/2023. pp.168-170.

  A. Latham, S. Goltz (2019). A Survey of the General Public’s Views on the Ethics of using AI in Education. In: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Chicago, USA, 25/6/2019.

  K. Mullan, A. Latham (2019). Exploiting social media for Stakeholder Engagement in Non-Profit Sporting Organisations. In: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Social Media. Brighton, UK, 13/6/2019.

  NN. Alnajran, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, A. Latham (2018). A Word Embedding Model Learned from Political Tweets. In: 2018 13th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES). Cairo, EGYPT, 18/12/2018. pp.177-183.

  AM. Latham Flexible Online Revision Support for SQL using Oscar Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System (CITS). Durham University, Durham, UK, 11/1/2017.

  N. Alnajran, K. Crockett, D. McLean, A. Latham (2017). Cluster analysis of twitter data: A review of algorithms. In: ICAART 2017 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. pp.239-249.

  SS. Aljameel, JD. O'Shea, KA. Crockett, A. Latham (2016). Survey of string similarity approaches and the challenging faced by the Arabic language. In: 2016 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES). Cairo, EGYPT, 20/12/2016. pp.241-247.

  KA. Crockett, A. Latham, D. McLean, Z. Bandar, J. O'Shea (2011). On predicting learning styles in conversational intelligent tutoring systems using fuzzy classification trees. In: FUZZ-IEEE. pp.2481-2488.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, Z. Bandar (2010). A Conversational Expert System Supporting Bullying and Harassment Policies. In: ICAART (1). pp.163-168.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds, K. O'Shea (2010). Oscar: An intelligent conversational agent tutor to estimate learning styles. In: FUZZ-IEEE. pp.1-8.

  A. Latham, KA. Crockett, D. McLean, B. Edmonds (2010). Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System. In: ICWL. pp.131-140.

• Reports

Invited papers

RiSE (Research in Sustainable Engineering) 2019, Glasgow Caledonian Uni., ‘Opportunities and Career Advancement after PhD’; Invited keynote, 6-Sep-19, Scotland

IEEE CIS Germany chapter/Institute for Intelligent Cooperating Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, OVG Uni. Magdeburg, ‘Automated Profiling of Individual Traits: Modelling Learning Styles with Oscar Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System’ ; Invited Talk, 4-Jun-19, Germany

DFKI Colloquial, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), ‘Automated Profiling of Individual Traits: Modelling Learning Styles with Oscar Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System’; Invited Talk, 16-May-19, Berlin, Germany

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society webinar, ‘Automated Profiling of Individual Traits: Modelling Learning Styles with Oscar Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System’; Invited Talk, 22 April 2019, online

IEEE Workshop on Internet of Things 2019, ‘IEEE Women in Engineering’; Invited keynote, 23-Mar-19, SensorCity, Liverpool, England

IEEE 2017 International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence (ICBDACI 17), “Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems: The State of the Art”; Invited keynote, Mar-17, India

Invited roundtable discussions

International AI in Education Conference 2019, "Plenary Panel - Education for All", Panel Member, Jul-19, Chicago, USA

Women and the 4th Industrial Revolution, Liverpool John Moores University, “Inspirational Panel – challenges & opportunities”; Panel Member, May-17, Liverpool UK

Expert reviewer for journals and publishers

My publons profile: https://publons.com/author/1318981/annabel-latham#profile

Computers and Education journal.
Science of Computer Programming journal.
IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems journal.
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies journal.
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing journal.
Learning and Individual Differences journal.
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems.
Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education (JITAE).
Software for E-learning journal.
The National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED).
National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.

Projects and initiatives

STEM Ambassador: Careers and motivational talks in UK schools

Joint organizer and speaker at ‘Computing Bootcamp’ event (Technically sponsored by IEEE UKI WIE, IEEE CIS WCI and MMU SCMDT) in May-17 for school children aged 13-14, Manchester UK

Joint organiser and speaker at ‘Fun Tech Jobs’ event (Technically sponsored by IEEE UKI WIE, IEEE CIS WCI and MMU SCMDT), Dec-2016, Manchester, UK, to inspire students to take up tech jobs.

Joint organiser and speaker at ‘Engineering Careers to Shape Our Future’ event (Technically sponsored by IEEE UKI WIE, IEEE CIS WCI and MMU SCMDT), Jul-2014, my talk ‘Artificial Intelligence in Education’ available at: https://youtu.be/8Qc1i8LTZrE

Joint organiser and speaker at ‘Sowing the Seed’ event (Technically sponsored by IEEE CIS WCI and MMU SCMDT) in Jan-2013, Manchester UK, to inspire general public and students to take up careers in Computing.

Media appearances or involvement

“How the scandal will hit academics”, i newspaper, 24-Mar-18.

“Fallout from Facebook data scandal may hit health research”, New Scientist, 22-Mar-18, available at: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2164521-fallout-from-facebook-data-scandal-may-hit-health-research/

“Cambridge Analytica scandal: legitimate researchers using Facebook data could be collateral damage”, The Conversation, 20-Mar-18, available at: https://theconversation.com/cambridge-analytica-scandal-legitimate-researchers-using-facebook-data-could-be-collateral-damage-93600

“7 Practical Ways Parents Can Inspire Girls to Get into STEM”, Huffington Post, 15-Mar-18, available at: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/inspiring-girls-into-stem_uk_5aa7b5a7e4b03c9edfaf8584

Video interview, ‘Computing Careers for Women – Consider Artificial Intelligence’ 2015, available at: https://youtu.be/0oWxsgtIihQ

‘Women in Computer Science – making the future happen today’, video to promote the study of Computing to teenaged girls, available at: https://youtu.be/t8MYyqQTFYI

Prizes and awards

Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award, Elsevier: Computers & Education: Awarded Apr-18 (award dated Dec 2016) as I am in the top 10th percentile of reviewers for Computers and Education journal.

Other distinctions

Senior Member IEEE (2018)

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

The National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED).
National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.

Membership of professional associations

Fellow HEA (since 2015).
Academic affiliate member BCS (2013-present).
Senior Member IEEE since 2018 (Member since 2008).
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008-present).
IEEE Women in Engineering (2008-present).
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society (2013-14).
IEEE Education Society (2012-14).

2019 Chair IEEE UK and Ireland Women in Engineering.
2019 Chair IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Graduate Student Research Grants.
2012-present Committee Member IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence.
2017-present Committee Member IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Education.
2015-2018 Vice-Chair IEEE UK and Ireland Women in Engineering.
2017-2018 Chair IEEE CIS Multimedia subcommittee.
2017-2018 Committee Member IEEE CIS Educational Materials
2016-2017 Committee Member IEEE CIS Student Activities group.
2013-2016 Committee Member IEEE CIS Social Media subcommittee.
2012-2016 Member IEEE CIS Affective Computing Task Force.
2014-2015 Committee Member IEEE CIS Pre-College Activities group.