Dr. Enas Altarawneh

Biography

Altarawneh is an assistant professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering, integrating a passion for teaching with research at the intersection of machine learning and emotional intelligence. Her work employs advanced techniques such as graph neural networks and large language models to develop emotion-aware AI agents, and evaluates Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) methodologies. Her interdisciplinary research spans psychology, engineering, and AI, including the creation of a social security robot with emotion-aware de-escalation capabilities. Prior to joining Lassonde, Altarawneh conducted postdoctoral research at the CERC Health Equity for 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 across universities and colleges in Canada and internationally.

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