Zahraa S Abdallah

Dr Zahraa S Abdallah is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol's School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, specializing in data science and machine learning applications for healthcare, climate change, and smart metering systems. Her research bridges theoretical algorithm development with real-world implementation challenges in evolving data environments.

Education:

• PhD
• BSc

Research Focus: Dr Abdallah's work centers on time series and streaming data analysis using adaptive machine learning techniques. She develops novel frameworks for concept drift handling and real-time pattern recognition, with particular emphasis on healthcare monitoring systems and environmental data processing. Her fingerprint analysis reveals strong activity in Activity Recognition (100%), Data Streams (59%), and Time Series Data (37%) within computer science.

Publication Trends: Her recent work demonstrates consistent innovation in streaming data applications, evolving from mobile activity recognition systems to sophisticated time series classifiers. The research trajectory shows increasing focus on healthcare integration, particularly through diabetes management applications using physiological data streams.

Scientific Recognition:

• Australian Postgraduate Award (2010) for doctoral studies
• Mollie Holman Award (2016) for outstanding thesis contribution

Research Leadership: As Co-Investigator on the UK T1D closed-loop systems project (2023-2024), she led AI components for physiological data integration. Her dataset contributions include the BrisT1D-Restricted Dataset (2025) for diabetes research and ML surrogates for genome design (2024).

Collaborative Networks: Actively engaged with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Infection and Immunity research theme, maintaining international collaborations evidenced by multi-country research networks and 106+ Mendeley readers across publications.