Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy

Samhaa R. El-Beltagy is an Associate Professor at Nile University (NU), Center for Informatics Science. Prior to joining NU, Dr. El-Beltagy was an Associate Professor at Cairo University. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, UK in 2001, and her Masters and Bachelor degrees in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo in 1997 and 1993 respectively.
A paper based on her PhD work was awarded the SIGWEB Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award given to the best paper at the annual ACM Hypertext conference in 2001. After completing her PhD, Dr. El-Beltagy has taken on technical leadership in numerous national developmental projects. She is also one of the founding members of the Text Mining group which is part of the center of excellence for Data Mining and Computer modeling established by the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information (MCIT) in 2005.
In 2009, she was awarded the title of ACM senior member which recognizes “ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience […] who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers”. It is worth noting that she is the first person with an Egyptian affiliation to have been awarded this title. She currently has over forty refereed international publications and has served and continues to serve on the international program committees of numerous international conferences and workshops. She has also served as an external reviewer for a number of international journals, and national projects. Her research interests include: Text Mining, Ontology Learning, Intelligent Search, Agent and Multi-agent based Systems and Frameworks, and Open and Adaptive Hypermedia.