Hi, I'm Aya Hussein 

I'm interested in collective intelligence & in making machines good teammates with humans

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About me!

 I am a lecturer at the Faculty of Science & Technology, University of Canberra (UC).  Before joining UC, I worked as a senior research fellow at the School of Systems and Computing in the University of New South Wales, Canberra (2020-2023). I serve as an associate editor at the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. My research interests include swarm robotics, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning (RL), and human-machine interaction. 

I have solid expertise in combining human and machine intelligence by studying interaction schemes that allow humans to teach machines and to effectively team up with them in the field. Particularly, my research has focused on RL agents and how they can learn to perform tasks by utilising the expertise of subject matter experts rather than by learning completely on their own via trial and error. I focus on swarm robotics as an application domain when developing and evaluating techniques for humans to teach RL agents.

My interest in human-machine interaction and swarm robotics started during my PhD which I received from UNSW- Canberra in 2020. My PhD focused on the realisation of effective human-swarm teams where I investigated both aspects of Human Factors and swarm algorithms that affect team performance.  Prior to that, I got my master’s  and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Cairo University in 2011 and 2015. My master’s research was about Arabic text diacritisation where I used Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enable the automatic restoration of the diacritics which is an essential pre-processing task for many Arabic NLP applications. 

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I've started a new job as a Lecturer in AI & Machine Learning at the University of Canberra