computer science
Dr. Fatima K. Abu Salem is associate professor of Computer Science at the American University of Beirut. She has an MS in pure Mathematics from AUB and a DPhil in Computing from the University of Oxford. Dr. Abu Salem’s former research area has been in Computer Algebra, with a focus on developing parallel and cache efficient algorithmic designs for problems in polynomial factorization and irreducibility testing over finite fields. Currently, she is involved in data science research for the public good. Applications that she has been tackling include but are not limited to, automatic fake news detection in the Syrian Conflict, predicting demand on the primary health care centers in Lebanon as a result of the Syrian refugee influx, and predicting refugee mobility in Turkey as a result of large-scale events, and mining for historical trends in bias discourse around various conflicts arising during the Lebanese war, using leading Lebanese newspapers archives.