RAJA JAMILAH RAJA YUSOF BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Raja Jamilah Raja Yusof holds a bachelor degree in Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. She holds a Master of Computer Science from University of Malaya. She received her PhD in 2012 from the University of Malaya. She is currently a lecturer in the department of Software Engineering in Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. She is also a member of at Centre of Quranic Research, University of Malaya. Her area of expertise includes usability of interfaces, Big Data Visualization, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Java Programming, Computational and Algorithmic Thinking, Scratch Programming and Islamic educational and Wasatiyah evaluation systems. While her research interests is in Human Computer Interaction and Algorithms.

She was invited as a speaker in a local seminar, Innovation & Technology in The Muslim World: An Applied Perspective in Information and Communication Technology during International Seminar & Expo on Muslims' Technology and Innovation in the year 2002. She was involved as a consultant in the development of Quranic Tajwid speech recognition project. She has also published many papers in journals and conferences. She was also appointed as guest editor in Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, an Emerald group journal which is now known as Multicultural Education Journal. Some of her papers includes Cyber-volunteering: Social Media Affordances in fulfilling NGOs social mission, Visualizing Qur'anic words with parallel plot; Qur'anic Words Stemming; Visualization Systems Supporting the Reading of Arabic Document for non- Arabic Speakers; T-test for Visualizing Frequently Used Arabic Words; and Quantitative Analysis of the words in Surah Al-Muawwidhat. She has also been involved in local and international conferences as a presenter to papers on Intelligent Systems for Qur'anic Learning Environment, Information Visualization for Learning words in the Qur'an; Parallel versus Perpendicular Plots: A Comparative Study; Improving Usability of HTA Charts and many others.

She had started teaching since year 2000, lecturing courses such as programming, analysis algorithms, human-computer interaction, software engineering, web programming and others. She has a patent on Quranic Learning and Visualization system with the software trademarked name Ainul Quran. In terms of community engagement, she is very active in uplifting educational awareness and levels of underprivileged community such as immigrants (Rohingnya and Champa war refugees), homeless and aborigines in Malaysia. She is also interested in doing community outreach programs promoting computer science education specifically and STEM education in schools especially to girls. Cyber security awareness is also among other issues of interest that she aims to bring to the local community.

In terms of community engagement, she is very active in uplifting educational awareness and levels of underprivileged community such as immigrants (Rohingnya and Champa war refugees), homeless and aborigines in Malaysia. She co-lead a Ministry of Higher Education (MOE) Community Grant entitled Teaching al-Quran to underprivileged community using al-Jabari A-ba-ha-ta method with the support of technology. She was also granted a grant to teach the Malay Champa community to read in Malay Language from UMCares, University Malaya.

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