Shazia Sadiq

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Professor Shazia Sadiq is a computer scientist based in Queensland, Australia. [1]

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Background

Originally from Pakistan, Sadiq was one of a handful of women to undertake studies in a computer science program within Pakistan at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1980s, and wrote her first computer program in Fortran using punched cards.

She later received a NORAD scholarship to undertake a masters in computer science from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. She then went on to do a PhD in Information Systems at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, with Professor Maria Orlowska.

Since 2001 Sadiq has been based in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Queensland. She conducts research and teaching in databases and information systems. [2]

She serves as deputy chair on the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee on Information and Communication Sciences and formerly as vice president of the Asia Pacific Chapter of IQ International – the International Association of Information and Data Quality. [3] [4]

Education

Research and advocacy

Sadiq's research is focused on developing innovative solutions for Business Information Systems. She has published over 100 publications in prestigious journals and conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDBJ, TKDE, WWWJ, ISJ, CAiSE, ER, and BPM. [6] She has also received several received grants. [7] Her work on declarative modeling of complex and dynamic business requirements has been applied in the areas of business process management, and GRC (governance, risk and compliance) with approximately 1000 citations on the collective works. Sadiq is leading a group of researchers and students in the area of big data quality and integration with novel applications in transportation, social media and learning analytics. In addition to her work in research, Sadiq contributes to the professional community of data and information quality professionals as a board member of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the International Association of Information and Data Quality and as convener of the Queensland Data Quality Roundtable.

Sadiq has also contributed to the enhancement of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) education for the last fifteen years. She has devoted considerable energy towards raising awareness of the importance of ICT skills for a number of disciplines, while ensuring that ICT students are equipped with the knowledge and confidence to tackle the rising challenges of a constantly evolving ICT landscape and a data driven society. Her teaching methods have been recognized through publications in leading conferences and journals, leadership roles at national and international ICT educational forums, and through University awards for teaching excellence. [8]

Sadiq is an active supporter of initiatives toward improving female participation in ICT. She developed an interactive workshop series, which has been delivered to over a thousand high school students since 2006. The initiative aims to promote interest in ICT-related study and professional pursuits, especially for female students. The primary reason behind the design of the workshops is to demonstrate computing principles and techniques by masking them in various socially relevant applications such as health, forensics, genetics, fashion, movie making, game design, environment modeling, etc. Sadiq also gives role model talks; [9] and participates in various girls in ICT events, such as Girls Into Doing Great Information Technology Society (GIDGITS) and “Technology Takes You Anywhere”.

Awards

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  2. ↑ "Shazia Sadiq". School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "IQ International" . Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Shazia Sadiq". School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Researcher Profile Archived 2014-11-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 August 2014
  6. ↑ Publications Record. Retrieved 12 August 2014
  7. ↑ "Professor Shazia Sadiq". The University of Queensland, UQ Researchers. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Winner: 2012 UQ Award for Teaching Excellence". Teaching and Learning at UQ, The University of Queensland. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Tin, Jason. "Revenge of the nerd/girls". The Courier Mail. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
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