N2WOMEN Event: Meeting and Broadending Participation

Keynotes and Panel Discussion:

Topic: Empowering Women in Academic Networking: Strategies for Efficient Conference Participation and Building Support Networks

Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024

Time: 16:00-17:00 (GMT+8)

Location: 360.2.023 Boola Katitjin, Murdoch University

Event Organized By:

1. Peijun Hou, PhD Student, Saint Louis University, USA
2. Mentor: Meera Radhakrishnan, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
3. Co-chair: Jahan Hassan, Senior Lecturer, Central Queensland University, Australia
4. Co-chair: Meera Radhakrishnan, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Panel Information:

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Invited Panellists

Paneliist 1: Dr. Aidrina Binti Mohamed Sofiadin

Assistant Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia

Bio: Dr. Aidrina Sofiadin completed her doctoral research in Sustainable E-learning Framework at Curtin University, Australia. As an academic, she is interested in establishing sustainable education and humanising education to enhance student's learning experiences and ensure they complement future needs. Aidrina is a certified professional and a member of the Australian Computer Society(ACS). She is also a certified professional technologist by the Malaysia Board of Technologists.

Aidrina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). At the same time, she also holds a post as Deputy Director of Innovation at the Office of Knowledge for Change and Advancement, IIUM. She has completed several courses on Extended Reality (XR), Web Development, and Sustainable Development. She is a certified Virtual Learning Educator (VLE) and a fellow instructor for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), Barzinji Project, Shenandoah University - USA. Also, Aidrina has been appointed as Lead Auditor in a few internal audits.

As a certified professional and university lecturer, Aidrina is deeply committed to sustainable education and the humanization of the learning experience. In 2024, she and her team has been awarded the ITEX 2024 Gold medal for the invention ADAM I.K.M.A.L at 35th International Invention, Innovation, Technology Competition and Exhibition 2024. Furthermore, she won a silver medal in an International Competition Sustainable Education 2022, in which she developed an Augmented Reality app for student learning. With a profound dedication to creating impactful and meaningful educational environments, my work focuses on integrating sustainability principles into curriculum design and teaching methodologies. Aidrina published her work in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and participated in local and global conferences. Her approach emphasizes the importance of cultivating a holistic and empathetic learning atmosphere, where students are encouraged to develop critical thinking skills, environmental stewardship, and a sense of global responsibility.

Panellist 2: Dr. Ekta Sharma

Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Bio: Dr. Ekta Sharma is an artificial intelligence (AI) early career researcher funded by the Office of National Intelligence, Australian Government. She works on solving space and environment challenges through AI and is also the Research Fellow for Women in the STEMM discipline at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr. Sharma has authored seven books and has a strong technical background spanning 15 years in Asia, Switzerland, and Australia. She is the recent winner of the Women in Technology award, and STEMM award, included in the 2024 Queensland India Australia Power List and mentioned as the top six trailblazing Australian Women in AI for 2024. She also received a commendation from the Deputy High Commissioner of the Australian High Commission to India for her work in AI. She is open to HDR student supervision and project collaborations in artificial intelligence and STEMM.

Panellist 3: Sabrina Pochaba

Data Scientist, Salzburg research

Bio: Sabrina Pochaba received the master's degree in mathematics from Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Since 2021, she has a Data Scientist with Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft. There she is engaged in different machine learning methods, focusing on networks and communication.

N2WOMEN Young Researcher Fellowship:

N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher's travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held. In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task.

Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computer Society (CS) Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).

To apply for a fellowship or for more information, please see http://committees.comsoc.org/n2women/ and click the Fellowships link.

The deadline for applications for WoWMoM 2024 is April 20, 2024.

Acceptance notification is 2 weeks after the application deadline.

Past N2Women events

click here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.