Dr Annabel Latham FHEA SMIEEE
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
- PhD (Artificial intelligence)
- MSc Computing
- PGC Academic Practice
- CIM Diploma in Marketing
- BSc(Hons) Computation
- FHEA
- SMIEEE
Prizes and awards
- IEEE Region 8 (EMEA) 2023 Outstanding Women in Engineering Section Volunteer Award for delivering excellent service to WIE members.
- IEEE Region 8 (EMEA) 2019 Outstanding Women in Engineering Section Affinity Group of the Year Award (accepted as Chair)
- Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award, Elsevier: Computers & Education: Awarded Apr-18 (award dated Dec 2016) as I am in the top 10th percentile of reviewers for Computers and Education journal.
Other distinctions
- Senior Member IEEE (2018)
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
- The National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED).
- National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.
Membership of professional associations
- STEM Ambassador
- Fellow HEA (since 2015).
- Senior Member IEEE since 2018 (Member since 2008).
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008-present).
- IEEE Women in Engineering (2008-present).
- IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society (2013-14).
- IEEE Education Society (2012-14).
Professional service roles
- Chair IEEE CIS Education Strategic Planning subcommittee
- Committee Member IEEE UK and Ireland Women in Engineering
- Committee Member IEEE CIS Education committee
- Committee Member IEEE CIS Strategic Planning committee
Previous roles
- 2019-2022 Chair IEEE UK and Ireland Women in Engineering.
- 2015-2018 Vice-Chair IEEE UK and Ireland Women in Engineering.
- 2020-2022 Chair IEEE CIS Education Repository committee.
- 2018-2020 Chair IEEE CIS Education Graduate Student Research Grants subcommittee.
- 2017-2018 Chair IEEE CIS Multimedia subcommittee.
- 2017-2018 Committee Member IEEE CIS Educational Materials
- 2016-2017 Committee Member IEEE CIS Student Activities group.
- 2013-2016 Committee Member IEEE CIS Social Media subcommittee.
- 2012-2016 Member IEEE CIS Affective Computing Task Force.
- 2014-2015 Committee Member IEEE CIS Pre-College Activities group.
Words of wisdom
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats
Teaching
Subject areas
Computer Science and Information Systems
Undergraduate
I supervise projects on the following units:
- Digital Technology Solutions Specialist (DTS) Development Project (level 5)
- Computing Digital Technology Network (CDTN) Final Year Project (level 6)
- Digital Technology Solutions Specialist (DTS) Synoptic Project (level 6)
Postgraduate
I lecture on the following postgraduate unit:
- Information Systems (MSc Apprenticeship) - Unit Leader
I supervise projects on the following units:
- MSc Computer Science Project (level 7)
- MSc Artificial Intelligence Project (level 7)
- MSc Data Science Project (level 7)
Supervision
PhD supervisions:
- Ngozi Nneke - A Novel Explainability-Aware Machine Learning Algorithm for Regression Tasks
PhD Completions
- Dr. Tulasi Kavarakuntla (PhD 2023) - Performance Modelling for Scalable Deep Learning
- Dr. Naeemeh Adel (PhD 2022) - Fuzzy natural language similarity measures through computing with words
- Dr. Noufa Alnajran (PhD 2018) - A Semantic-based Framework for Clustering Social Data
- Dr. Sumayh Aljameel (PhD 2018) - Arabic Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System for High Functioning Autistic Children
- Dr. Khurim Shabaz (PhD 2017) - Conversational Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
- Dr. Mike Holmes (PhD 2017) - Comprehension based adaptive learning systems
- Dr. Omar Alobaidi (PhD 2015) - Arabic conversational agent for modern Islamic Education
Research outputs
I’m a member of the Computational Intelligence lab under the Machine Intelligence theme in the Centre for Advanced Computational Science (CfACS). I lead the Special Interest Group in Computer Science and AI for Education.
My expertise is in Artificial Intelligence in Education, particularly learner profiling, natural language tutoring and adaptive systems. I also work in the following areas:
- Computational Intelligence
- Conversational Agents
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Ethics and Trust of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Agent Intelligence
- Knowledge Engineering
- Intelligent Systems
- Affective Computing
- Semantic Clustering of Social Media Text (Twitter)
- Information Systems Strategy: Strategic Use of Social Media
Expert reviewer
My publons profile: https://publons.com/author/1318981/annabel-latham#profile
- Computers and Education journal.
- Science of Computer Programming journal.
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems journal.
- IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies journal.
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing journal.
- Learning and Individual Differences journal.
- Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems.
- Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education (JITAE).
- Software for E-learning journal.
- The National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED).
- National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
(2019) Intelligent Systems and Applications. Springer International Publishing.
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Chapters in books
Latham, A. (2022) 'Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems: The State of the Art.' Women in Computational Intelligence Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics. Springer,
Shabaz, K., O'Shea, J., Crockett, K., Latham, A. (2016) 'Aneesah: A Conversational Natural Language Interface to Databases.'
Latham, A., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2012) 'Adaptive tutoring in an intelligent conversational agent system.' In Nguyen, N.T. (ed.) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VIII. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (Germany), pp. 146-167.
Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2011) 'Oscar: An Intelligent Adaptive Conversational Agent Tutoring System..' In O'Shea, J., Nguyen, N.T., Crockett, K.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (ed.) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 5th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2011, Manchester, UK, June 29 - July 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, pp. 563-572.
Latham, A., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2010) 'Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System.' Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2010. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 131-140.
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Reports
Shardlow, M., Latham, A. (2023) ChatGPT in computing education: a policy whitepaper. UK: Council of Professors and Heads of Computing.
Latham, A., Crockett, K. (2023) Peoples Panel for Artificial Intelligence. Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Journal articles
Kavarakuntla, T., Han, L., Lloyd, H., Latham, A., Kleerekoper, A., Akintoye, S.B. (2024) 'A generic performance model for deep learning in a distributed environment.' IEEE Access, 12pp. 8207-8219.
Crockett, K.A., Gerber, L., Latham, A., Colyer, E. (2021) 'Building Trustworthy AI Solutions: A Case for Practical Solutions for Small Businesses.' IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence,
Jackson, D., Latham, A. (2021) 'Talk to the Ghost: The Storybox Methodology for Faster Development of Storytelling Chatbots.' Expert Systems with Applications, 190pp. 116223-116223.
Holmes, M., Latham, A., Crockett, K., O'Shea, J. (2017) 'Near real-time comprehension classification with artificial neural networks: decoding e-Learner non-verbal behaviour.' IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 11(1) pp. 5-12.
Crockett, K., Latham, A., Whitton, N. (2016) 'On predicting learning styles in conversational intelligent tutoring systems using fuzzy decision trees.' International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 97pp. 98-115.
Latham, A., Crockett, K., McLean, D. (2013) 'An adaptation algorithm for an intelligent natural language tutoring system.' Computers and Education, 71pp. 97-110.
Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2012) 'A conversational intelligent tutoring system to automatically predict learning styles..' Comput. Educ., 59pp. 95-109.
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Conference papers
Latham, A., Crockett, K. (2024) 'Towards trustworthy AI: raising awareness in marginalized communities.' 30/6/2024 - 5/7/2024.
Crockett, K., Latham, A., Wood, M., Abberley, L., Rawsthorne, M., Attwood, S. (2023) 'Building Trust - The People's Panel for AI.' pp. 168-170.
Kavarakuntla, T., Han, L., Lloyd, H., Latham, A., Akintoye, S.B. (2022) 'Performance Analysis of Distributed Deep Learning Frameworks in a Multi-GPU Environment.' In 2021 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications. London, UK, 20/12/2021 - 22/12/2021. IEEE,
Crockett, K., Colyer, E., Latham, A. (2021) 'The Ethical Landscape of Data and Artificial Intelligence: Citizen Perspectives.' In 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). Orlando, FL, USA, 5/12/2021 - 7/12/2021. IEEE,
Crockett, K., Garratt, M., Latham, A., Colyer, E., Goltz, S. (2020) 'Risk and trust perceptions of the public of Artificial Intelligence applications.' In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) - IEEE IJCNN 2020. Glasgow, UK (virtual congress), 19/7/2020 - 24/7/2020. IEEE,
Crockett, K., Goltz, S., Garratt, M., Latham, A. (2019) 'Trust in Computational Intelligence Systems: A Case Study in Public Perceptions.' In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Wellington, New Zealand, 10/6/2019 - 13/6/2019. IEEE,
Schipper, C., Latham, A. (2019) 'Embracing Social Media for Stakeholder Management within NPOs – A Case Study.' In 6th European Conference on Social Media. Brighton, UK, 13/6/2019 - 14/6/2019. Academic Conferences and Publishing,
Mullan, K., Latham, A. (2019) 'Exploiting social media for Stakeholder Engagement in Non-Profit Sporting Organisations.' In 6th European Conference on Social Media (ECSM 2019). Brighton, UK, 13/6/2019 - 14/6/2019. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited,
Aljameel, S., O’Shea, J., Crockett, K., Latham, A., Kaleem, M. (2019) 'LANA-I: An Arabic Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System for Children with ASD.' In CompCom: Intelligent Computing. 997. London, United Kingdom, 16/7/2019 - 17/7/2019. Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (ed.) Springer, pp. 498-516.
Latham, A., Goltz, S. (2019) 'A Survey of the General Public’s Views on the Ethics of using AI in Education.' In The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. 11625. Chicago, USA, 25/6/2019 - 29/6/2019. Isotani, S. (ed.) Switzerland: Springer Nature,
Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'A Heuristic Based Pre-processing Methodology for Short Text Similarity Measures in Microblogs.' In IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4rd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS),. Exeter, UK, 23/6/2018 - 30/6/2018. IEEE,
Aljameel, S., O'Shea, J., Crockett, K.A., Latham, A. (2018) 'Can LANA CITS Support Learning in Autistic Children? A case study evaluation.' In Intelligent Systems and Applications Proceedings of the 2018 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) Volume 2. London, UK, 6/9/2018 - 7/9/2018. Springer,
Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Semantic-Based Similarity Measures in Microblogging Social Media.' In Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018). Zurich, 17/12/2018 - 20/12/2018.
Alnajran, N.N., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'A Word Embedding Model Learned from Political Tweets.' pp. 177-183.
Holmes, M., Latham, A.M., Crockett, K., O'Shea, J. (2018) 'Modelling e-learner comprehension within a conversational intelligent tutoring system.' In 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE 2017). Dublin, Ireland, 3/7/2017 - 6/7/2017. Springer, pp. 251-260.
Aljameel, S., O'Shea, J.D., Crockett, K., Latham, A. (2017) 'A Review of Current Technology-Based Intervention for School Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.' In Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2016. London, UK, 21/9/2016 - 22/9/2016. Springer, pp. 868-879.
Aljameel, S., O'Shea, J., Crockett, K., Latham, A., Kaleem, M. (2017) 'Development of An Arabic Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System for Education of Children with ASD.' 26/6/2017 - 28/6/2017. IEEE,
Adel, N., Latham, A.M., Crockett, K. (2017) 'Towards Socially Intelligent Automated Tutors: Predicting Learning Style Dimensions from Conversational Dialogue.' In 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2016). Toulouse, France, 18/7/2016 - 21/7/2016. IEEE,
Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2017) 'Cluster analysis of twitter data: A review of algorithms.' 2. pp. 239-249.
Crockett, K.A., Mclean, D., Latham, A., Alnajran, N. (2017) 'Cluster Analysis of Twitter Data: A Review of Algorithms.' 2. 24/2/2017 - 26/2/2017. Science and Technology Publications (SCITEPRESS)/Springer Books, pp. 239-249.
Aljameel, S., O'Shea, J.D., Crockett, K., LathaM, A. (2016) 'Survey of String Similarity Approaches and The Challenging Faced by The Arabic Language.' In The 11thIEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES 2016). Cairo, Egypt,
Latham, A.M. (2016) 'Flexible Online Revision Support for SQL using Oscar Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System (CITS).' In 1st National Conference on Computing Education Practice (CEP17). Durham University, Durham, UK, 11/1/2017 - 11/1/2017.
Adel, N., Latham, A., Crockett, K.A. (2016) 'Towards Socially Intelligent Automated Tutors: Predicting Learning Style Dimensions from Conversational Dialogue.' 18/7/2016 - 21/7/2016. ElBaz, D., Bourgeois, J. (ed.) IEEE,
Holmes, M., Latham, A., Crockett, K., Lewin, C., O'Shea, J. (2015) 'Hendrix: A Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System for Java Programming.' 7/9/2015 - 9/9/2015.
Smith, E.V., Crockett, K., Latham, A., Buckingham, F. (2014) 'SEEKER: a conversational agent as a natural language interface to a relational database.' In World Congress on Engineering (WEC) 2014. 1. London, U.K., 2/7/2014 - 4/7/2014. International Association of Engineers (IAENG), pp. 191-196.
O'Shea, J.D., Crockett, K., Latham, A., McLean, D. (2013) 'A fuzzy model for predicting learning styles using behavioral cues in an conversational intelligent tutoring system..' 7/7/2013 - 10/7/2013.
Latham, A., Crockett, K., Mclean, D. (2013) 'Profiling student learning styles with multilayer perceptron neural networks.' pp. 2510-2515.
Crockett, K.A., Latham, A., McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J. (2011) 'On predicting learning styles in conversational intelligent tutoring systems using fuzzy classification trees..' IEEE, pp. 2481-2488.
Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z. (2010) 'A Conversational Expert System Supporting Bullying and Harassment Policies..' Filipe, J., Fred, A.L.N., Sharp, B. (ed.) INSTICC Press, pp. 163-168.
Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B., O'Shea, K. (2010) 'Oscar: An intelligent conversational agent tutor to estimate learning styles..' IEEE, pp. 1-8.
Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2010) 'Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System..' 6483. Luo, X., Spaniol, M., Wang, L., Li, Q., Nejdl, W., Zhang, W. (ed.) Springer, pp. 131-140.