Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Research interests
- Computer science
Biography
Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at King’s College London. She received her PhD from Swansea University in Computer Science. Before joining King’s, she was a Research Associate at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre. She worked as a Research Engineer in HP Labs Bristol on document engineering, and then as a Software Developer in London, working on multi-format publishing. Her research interests include information visualisation, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and digital humanities. Alfie has worked on several projects including Poem Viewer and ViTA: Visualization for Text Alignment. She is actively involved with the Quill Project at the University of Oxford, a platform for the study of negotiated texts.
Research interests
- Information Visualisation
- Human-Computer Interaction
- User-centered Design of Visualisation Applications
- Visualisation in Digital Humanities
- User Studies and Evaluation
More information
Research
Security Hub
The Security Hub consolidates the research related to security
Health Hub
The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.
Centre for Attention Studies
Forging new responses to the foundational digital age crisis: distraction
Centre for Technology and the Body
Stories of embodied technology: from the plough to the touchscreen
Human Centred Computing Research
The group is concerned with the design, development and evaluation of human computer systems.
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London
King's Cybersecurity Centre
An EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.
News
PhD students from Informatics attend WomENcourage conference
The conference aims to connect women from diverse STEM backgrounds and encourage them to pursue a career in computing.
International Women's Day at King's Department of Informatics
International Women’s Day (IWD) is aimed at breaking down social barriers and creating a gender equal world. On IWD on March 8 the world comes together to...
Events
Dealing with bias and diversity in Artificial Intelligence
How AI can overcome bias
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
He Said, She Said!
Visualising how complex negotiations and social media conversations evolve over time.
Research
Security Hub
The Security Hub consolidates the research related to security
Health Hub
The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.
Centre for Attention Studies
Forging new responses to the foundational digital age crisis: distraction
Centre for Technology and the Body
Stories of embodied technology: from the plough to the touchscreen
Human Centred Computing Research
The group is concerned with the design, development and evaluation of human computer systems.
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London
King's Cybersecurity Centre
An EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.
News
PhD students from Informatics attend WomENcourage conference
The conference aims to connect women from diverse STEM backgrounds and encourage them to pursue a career in computing.
International Women's Day at King's Department of Informatics
International Women’s Day (IWD) is aimed at breaking down social barriers and creating a gender equal world. On IWD on March 8 the world comes together to...
Events
Dealing with bias and diversity in Artificial Intelligence
How AI can overcome bias
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
He Said, She Said!
Visualising how complex negotiations and social media conversations evolve over time.