About Me

I obtained  bachelor's degree in computer science with honours from King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia, and master's degree from McMaster University, Canada.  Since I graduated from KAU, I have started my academic work in Computer Science (CS) department at Umm Al-Qura University (UQU). During my academic works,  I expanded my skills in leadership and management by holding positions not only focuses on lecturing but also on supervising undergraduate projects particularly in game and web development.  At UQU in 2022, I received the first place Excellence in E-Learning Award based on my academic skills in teaching and learning. I have high aspirations in both academic education as well as academic research. Currently, I am Ph.D. student at Macquarie University in intelligent computing laboratory. My Ph.D. research is under the supervision of Prof. Michael Sheng and Dr. Wei Emma Zhang in school of computing. 

Research Interest

My research interests include, but are not limited to Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. 

Publications

• Elaf Alhazmi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Munazza Zaib, Ahoud Alhazmi . Distractor Generation in Multiple-Choice Tasks: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Evaluation. In Proceedings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

• Ahoud Alhazmi, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Elaf Alhazmi. A Unified Framework for Improving Misclassifications in Modern Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis. In 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2021.

• Elaf Alhazmi, Abdulwahab Aljubairy and Ahoud Alhazmi. Memory Management via Ownership Concept Rust and Swift: Experimental Study. International Journal of Computer Applications 183(22):1-10, August 2021

• Elaf Alhazmi. Fake News Classification in Machine Learning with Different Word Representations. International Journal of Computer Applications 183(37):1-7, November 2021

• Elaf Alhazmi. The Concept of Ownership in Rust and Swift. Diss. 2018.

Academic Experience

• Summer Trainee at Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia from July - August 2011

• Volunteer at KAU in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from Septemebr 2011 - May 2012

• Teaching Assistant at UQU  in Al-Lith, Saudi Arabia from August 2013 - now

• Workshop Presenter - 48 hrs remotly - at UQU for Microsoft Training Course at College of Community Services and Continuous Education, Makkah, Saudi Arabia from January - February 2021 

• Workshop Attendance - on campus - at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for AMCS Workshop for Higher Education Instructors 2022 in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia from 26 Novemebr -  1 December 2022

Honors & Awards

• Recipient of Ph.D. scholarship in CS from UQU  between  2023 - 2026

• Recipient Excellence in E-Learning Award 1st place at UQU in year 2022

• Recipient of TA scholarship in CS from UQU between 2015 -  2018

Contact

• Email : elaf.alhazmi@students.mq.edu.au

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