WOMEN IN ENGINEERING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD:

Since 2002, we’ve partnered with the University of Technology Sydney on our Women in Engineering & Information Technology (WEIT) Award. This award encourages women studying in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to pursue their passion. Plus, it addresses the low rate of female participation in these fields.

With this very special 20th anniversary, our 2022 finalists are: Jacqueline Cowdery, Jasmine Pye, Emaan Gohar, Kashish Agarwal, Rubab Rahman and 🎻Caitlin Murphy.
 
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿’𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝗮𝗯 𝗥𝗮𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿’𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗿. Congratulations to you both!!

Thank you, Amani Abusafia, for sharing your story and wise words of encouragement. It was so inspiring!

Thank you to Temre Green, PhD, Carolyn M Evans, Lucía Bautista and Louisa Leong for leading our candidates’ review and interviews.

Special thanks to our Board, Club and friends who joined our virtual awards event!

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Amani Abusafia is pursuing a doctorate to become a leading researcher in the field of computerscience who will push for a gender-equal environment. She is working in the pioneering field of
green Internet of Things (IoT) wireless energy sharing services in smart cities and her research expands the sharing economy by establishing a new eco-friendly market for wireless energy sharing.

Her goal is to push the boundaries by leveraging the service paradigm to solve the intricate and unaddressed challenges in the emerging technologies of wireless energy sharing/charging.

Amani has received the Postgraduate Research Scholarship in the Internet of Things Service Management from the University of Sydney, the Grace Hopper Celebration Student Scholarship and the IEEE Women in Service Computing Premier Scholarship and a master’s scholarship from the University of Sharjah.

Before starting her doctorate program, Amani worked as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sharjah. She was also a research assistant in the Data Mining and Multimedia Research Group at the University of Sharjah. Her research interests include wireless
sensor networks, data mining, service computing and distributed systems.