Dr. Annabel Latham

Dr Annabel Latham is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Chair of the IEEE UK & Ireland Women in Engineering Affinity Group, and also, Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Graduate Student Research Grants Committee and a host of other associations.

Annabel is the Unit Leader of Information Systems Strategy (Level 6), her teaching engagements include both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and she has supervised many PhD students.

Annabel is a recipient of the Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award, Elsevier: Computers & Education: Awarded Apr-18 (award dated Dec 2016) for begin in the top 10th percentile of reviewers for Computers and Education journal. She has also taken part in expert reviewing of external funding bodies, including the National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED), and National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.

Her research expertise is in Artificial Intelligence in Education, particularly learner profiling, natural language tutoring and adaptive systems. She has also worked in the following areas:

• Computational Intelligence
• Conversational Agents
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Agent Intelligence
• Knowledge Engineering
• Intelligent Systems
• Affective Computing
• Semantic Clustering of Social Media Text (Twitter)
• Information Systems Strategy: Strategic Use of Social Media
• Ethics and Trust of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Annabel is widely published and some of her featured publications can be found here https://www.mmu.ac.uk/computing-and-maths/staff/profile/index.php?id=2382