Thanaa Ghanem

Thanaa Ghanem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Metropolitan State University's College of Engineering. With a PhD from Purdue University (2014), she has held academic positions at Umm Al-Qura University (Assistant Professor, 2013-2014) and Qatar Computing Research Institute (Scientist, 2017-2018). Her research focuses on data science, social media analytics, spatio-temporal data processing, and geotagged microblog analysis.

Education includes:

• PhD, Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• MS, Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• BS, Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt

Research interests emphasize:

• Social network analysis for health communication
• Big data query language pedagogy
• Geotagged microblog visualization systems (Taghreed/VisCAT)
• Language diversity mapping in social media
• Spatio-temporal data processing
• Cloud DBMS architectures and tradeoffs

Her recent publications demonstrate expertise in social media epidemiology, data visualization, and database systems. She has also contributed to educational curriculum design in data science.

Scientific awards:

• No specific awards mentioned in available data