Munazza Zaib has recently graduated from Macquarie University as a PhD student and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Human-Centred Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. Before starting at Monash University, Munazza spent a considerable number of years in the academic and research settings of Macquarie University. Her research interests include Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and their applications in Conversational Question Answering, Intelligent Dialogue Agents, etc. Munazza, besides, serve as a Reviewer and on the Technical Program Committees of a number of reputed International Conferences. She has been selected to participate in the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, to be held in September 2024 in Heidelberg, Germany. She is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

My research interests include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Natural Language Processing, Semantic Analysis, Question Answering, and Information Retrieval.

Link to my Google Scholar.

• Participant in Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2024.

• Recipient of DAAD AI-Net Postdoc Fellowship, 2024.

• Dean's Commendation Award for Academic Excellence, 2021.

• Recipient of iMQRES Project Specific Scholarship for the year 2019-2022.

• Recipient of MEVLANA Exchange Scholarship by Turkish Higher Education Commission.

• Recipient of Sakura Student Exchange Program to The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2017.

• Recipient of Teaching Assistant Scholarship from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan for year 2014-15. 

• Second Position holder in Bachelor of Engineering(2014).

• National Entrepreneurship Program organized by Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan from March 2018- May 2018.

• Leadership and Management in Higher Education by The Association of Commonwealth Universities from 13-16 February, 2107.

• Faculty Professional Development Program organized by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan from 18-22 December, 2017.

• Software Development Training by Hidaya Institute of Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan from Feb-May, 2014.

• Project Management using Primavera from 6-11 February, 2012.

• IBM Rational Quality Suite Training by Avanza Solutions, Pakistan from 18-21 September, 2012.

• Program Committee Member, 22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2024).

• Session Chair (Question Answering Systems-Part 2), International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023.

• Reviewer, Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2023. 

• Reviewer, Computing Journal, 2022.

• Student Volunteer, Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2022.

• Reviewer, International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2021.

• Reviewer, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2021.

• Reviewer, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.

• Reviewer, Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (EDOC), 2019.

• Visiting Faculty, Department of Computing at Bursa Technical University, Turkey from 1-14 December, 2018.

• Teacher Organizer, 5th International Multi-topic ICT Conference at MUET, Jamshoro, Pakistan from 25-27 April, 2018.

• Facilitator, Active Citizen Workshop affiliated with British Council from 8-12 January, 2018.

• Teacher organizer, Technovation'17 held at MUET, SZAB Campus, Khairpur Mirs on 2nd March, 2017.

• Student Volunteer, IEEE Pakistan Student, GOLD, WIE Congress (PSGWC'13) 23-25 October, 2013.

Address:

Department of Human-Centred Computing, Monash University, Australia.

Email: munazza.zaib@monash.edu.

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