Dr. Enas Altarawneh

Biography

Altarawneh is an assistant professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering, where she integrates her passion for teaching with research at the intersection of machine learning and emotional intelligence. Her work employs advanced techniques, including graph neural networks and large language models, to develop emotion-aware AI agents, particularly evaluated within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) methodologies. Her interdisciplinary research spans psychology, engineering, and artificial intelligence, including the creation of a social security robot equipped with emotion-aware de-escalation capabilities. Prior to joining Lassonde, Altarawneh conducted postdoctoral research at the CERC for Health Equity and Community Wellbeing at Toronto Metropolitan University, focusing on technology-facilitated violence detection in interdisciplinary contexts. She has extensive teaching experience, having instructed courses such as Discrete Mathematics, Programming, Web Development, Ethics in the Information Age, Theory of Computation, Machine Learning, and Data Mining at various universities and colleges in Canada and internationally.

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