Dr. Rita Zgheib is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Computational Science, Canadian University Dubai, UAE. She has 5+ years of academic and research experience in different university institions in France and UAE. Her research interests include - disease and epidemic detection, healthcare applications, IoT architecture, ontologies, semantic reasoning, Machine Learning, and software engineering. She authored and co-authored several papers with experts in the domain from different countries (France, Italy, Norway, UAE) in international conferences and journals. She is a member of IEEE and an active member of International Program Committees, Technical Program Committees, and Advisory Committees of several academics conferences.
Dr. Zgheib holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specialty in artificial intelligence from Paul Sabatier Toulouse University, France, where her dissertation explored novel semantic architecture for IoT healthcare applications. She also obtained an MSc Computer Science specialty in Information and communication systems from the University of Toulouse, France.