Dr. Yasmine Arafa
Yasmine has over 15 years’ experience in software engineering and IT project management across vertical segments commercially and in academia. She has led research and development projects that involved the multi-disciplinary areas of affective computing, social interaction design, multi-agent systems, and their application in real-time smart systems, Her focus is on creating new technology with social significance. Recent projects include context-aware smart systems that enable next generation applications for mobile, social computing and semantic web services.
Prof. Cornelia Boldyreff
Professor Cornelia Boldyreff (www.corneliaboldyreff.co.uk) is a Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. She was previously the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London from 2009 - February 2013. Cornelia gained her PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Durham where she worked from 1992; she was a Reader in the Computer Science Department when she left. In 2004 she moved to the University of Lincoln to become the first Professor of Software Engineering at the university, where she co-founded and directed the Centre for Research in Open Source Software. She has wide-ranging experience in software engineering research and has published extensively on her research in the field.
Miriam Morris
The idea for ebarts originated with Miriam Morris. Miriam has 20 years’ experience as a Marketing and Communications Director. She has worked on urban design and community planning projects across the EU, US, Japan and the Middle East. And developed and promoted services for older people, and vulnerable young people and children in the UK. Recently she worked with Positive Money to develop their campaign strategy, and is part of nef’s New Economics Organisers Network.
