Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi

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Syaheerah (Shaheerah) Lebai Lutfi is currently pursuing a PhD at Grupo de Technología del Habla [4] (GTH) – Speech Technology Group, University Politécnica de Madrid, Spain,  under the supervision of Prof. Juan Manuel Montero. [5] Her stay is  funded by a joint fellowship from the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education [6] (MOHE) and University Science Malaysia [7] (USM).

She obtained a BSc. Computing from Bolton University [8], UK , in 2000  and a Masters in Software Engineering from University Malaya [9], Kuala Lumpur in 2007, also with a USM scholarship. Upon completing her PhD, she will return to USM to serve the Computer Science Faculty  [10].

During Jan – April 2011, she did a research stay at MACS [11], Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,  as a visiting researcher where she was involved with the EU funded FP7 project eCUTE [12].  eCUTE has eight European and Japanese partners and aims on developing innovative technologically-enhanced learning approaches in cultural understanding and sensitivity that will help to deal with cultural problems, targeting  young adults (18-25 y/o) and children (9-11).

Before entering the research field,  she spent three years in the industry – as an IT Executive at MaybanLife Berhad [13], KL and Systems Analyst at National Poison Centre [14], USM Penang

Here is her CV [15] in pdf, if you’re interested in further details. If you don’t appreciate extra pages popping up, here’s a quick view: