Amal Zouaq

Biography

Amal Zouaq is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and an Adjunct Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Queen's University and Athabasca University. Previously she was at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Her research interests include natural language processing, Semantic Web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction and technology-enhanced learning. She obtained her M.SC. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Montreal (Canada). She was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 2009 and at Athabasca University and Simon Fraser University, funded by the FQRNT (Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies) in 2010. She serves as a member of the program committee and as a reviewer in many conferences and journals in knowledge and data engineering, natural language processing, eLearning and the Semantic Web.  

Research Interest

Professor Amal's  research interests include natural language processing, Semantic Web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction and technology-enhanced learning.