Hannah Dee

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Hannah Dee
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A photograph of Hannah Dee, taken in Aberystwyth, in February 2021.
Born
Hannah-Mary Dee
Alma mater University of Leeds (BSc, MA, PhD)
Awards Suffrage Science award (2018)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Cognitive Science
Institutions Aberystwyth University
Thesis Explaining visible behaviour  (2005)
Website users.aber.ac.uk/hmd1/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Hannah-Mary Dee MBE is a British cognitive scientist and computer scientist specialising in computer vision, [1] with specialisms in plant science, navigation, art, and medical imaging. [2] In 2014, she was one of 30 women identified by the British Computer Society in the "BCS Women in IT Campaign. [3]

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Dee has organised many events for women in computing and for broader groups with a women-friendly stance, including an android programming family fun day (materials available in Welsh and in English). [4]

Education

Dee received a BSc in Cognitive Science (1996), an MA in Philosophy (1998), and a PhD in Computing (2005), all from the University of Leeds. [5] [6] [7]

Career and research

Dee has held postdoctoral researcher at Kingston University (2005-2006), University of Leeds (2006-2009), and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (2009-2010). Since 2010, she is a Senior Lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University. [8]

She has served deputy chair of her local BCS branch (BCS Mid Wales) since 2011.

Dee developed and runs the annual BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the one-day conference for women and non-binary computing students to encourage networking for women and gender non-conforming students from around the UK, in addition to gaining career development advice from successful women in computing.

Her research interests [1] are in computer vision for the analysis of human behaviour; shadow detection and reasoning; and student attitudes to the study of computer science. She is noted for championing the cause of women in IT.

Publications

Dee's publications [1] include:

Awards and honours

In 2014 Dee was featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation, produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources. [16] In 2016, Dee was identified as one of the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016 [17] by Computer Weekly.

She was also the voted 15th most influential woman in UK IT 2014, [18] and is active on the Committee of BCSWomen.

In 2015, Dee was identified as the 10th [19] Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly.

In 2018, Dee was added to the Computer Weekly 'Most Influential Women in UK IT' Hall of Fame alongside Chi Onwurah, Sarah Wood and Sherry Coutu. [20] Hannah Dee started in 2008, the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium which is the UK's main conference for female undergraduates, and was the Chair 10 years, then having the role of Deputy Chair [21] of the Colloquium [22]

In June 2024, Dee was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in King Charles' Birthday Honours List [23] in recognition of her services to 'Technology and to Women in the Information Technology Sector'. [24]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hannah Dee publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Research - Hannah Dee's home page". users.aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Women in IT". BCS. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Android Programming Fun Day".
  5. ↑ Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Physical. "Hannah Dee". eps.leeds.ac.uk.
  6. ↑ Connecting research and researchers. "ORCID". orcid.org.
  7. ↑ "Staff profiles : Department of Computer Science , Aberystwyth University". www.aber.ac.uk.
  8. ↑ "Staff Profiles". Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  9. ↑ Zwiggelaar, Reyer; Roscoe, Jonathan Francis; Dee, Hannah (2012). "Coping with Noise in Ultrasound Images: A review". Aberystwyth University. hdl: 2160/7844 .
  10. ↑ Vu, Ngoc-Son; Dee, Hannah M.; Caplier, Alice (2012). "Face Recognition using the POEM descriptor". Pattern Recognition. 45 (7): 2478–2488. Bibcode:2012PatRe..45.2478V. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2011.12.021. hdl:2160/7802.
  11. ↑ Dee, Hannah M.; Cohn, Anthony G.; Hogg, David C. (2012). "Building semantic scene models from unconstrained video". Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 116 (3): 446–456. doi:10.1016/j.cviu.2011.09.005. hdl:2160/7801.
  12. ↑ "Improving bioenergy crop yield and quality through manipulating senescence".
  13. ↑ Santos, Paulo E.; Dee, Hannah (7 August 2011). "The Perception and Content of Cast Shadows: An Interdisciplinary Review, Spatial Cognition & Computation" (PDF). Spatial Cognition and Computation. 11 (3): 226–253. doi:10.1080/13875868.2011.565396. hdl:2160/7547. S2CID   14390306.
  14. ↑ Caplier, Alice; Dee, Hannah (October 2010). "Crowd behaviour analysis using histograms of motion direction". Aberystwyth University. hdl: 2160/5881 .
  15. ↑ Fenelon, Valquiria; Santos, Paulo E.; Dee, Hannah (2010). "Knowledge-based adaptative thresholding from shadows". Aberystwyth University. hdl: 2160/5875 .
  16. ↑ Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation (PDF). British Computer Society. 1 October 2014. p. 57. ISBN   978-1-78017-287-3 . Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  17. ↑ "Vote for the most influential woman in UK IT 2016". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  18. ↑ "Computer Weekly Most Influential Women UK IT 2014" . Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  19. ↑ Bateman, Kayleigh (6 July 2015). "The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015: 10. Dr Hannah Dee, Lecturer in Computer Science at Aberystwyth University". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  20. ↑ "Most Influential Women in UK IT 2018: Entrants to the Hall of Fame". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  21. ↑ BCSWomen. "Dr Hannah Dee's Report on the 15th Lovelace Colloquium". BCSWomen. BCS. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  22. ↑ "Hall of Fame". Hall of Fame 2018. Computer Weekly. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  23. ↑ "The Gazette (No. 64423) Birthday Honours List page B17" . Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  24. ↑ "Dr Hannah Dee awarded MBE for Lovelace Colloquium volunteering | BCS". www.bcs.org.
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