Biography

Dayang NurFatimah Awang Iskandar is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), UNIMAS, Sarawak. She obtained her Bachelor degree (Hons) in Information Technology (majoring in Computational Science) from UNIMAS. She holds a Master in Multimedia Computing from Monash University, Australia and a PhD degree in Computer Science from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. She pursued her postdoctoral studies with the Biomedical Informatics Systems Engineering Laboratory (BISEL), Heriot-Watt University, UK, working under the EU funded project ─ Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence with Semantic Technologies (CUBIST). Currently, she is undergoing her sabbatical attachment as a researcher at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester. Dayang has expertise in Spatiotemporal image analysis, semantic representation and retrieval, her research focuses on minimising the gap between image features and high-level semantics in the domain of medicine, agriculture and astronomy.