Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr. Azadeh Esfandyari joined the University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer in Computer Science in November 2023. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Milan in 2017. Both her bachelor's and master's degrees are in Software Engineering.

Following the completion of her PhD, she started working as an assistant professor, making remarkable contributions to academia. She has published in several well-known academic journals and conferences, such as the Journal of Information Science and the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. She has also taught a variety of computer science modules and supervised a considerable number of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Additionally, she collaborated as an investigator on various research projects involving interdisciplinary teams.

Before joining the school, she worked in the London-based tech industry, applying her knowledge and expertise in software development and data science to deliver cutting-edge solutions for clients in different domains.

Teaching Expertise/Areas

• Database design
• Computer programming & Advanced programming
• Software engineering
• Algorithms and data structures
• Data mining

Research Interests/Areas

• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
• Social Network Analysis
• Networks/Graph Mining
• Big Data Analytic
• Analyzing Online Behavior of Humans

Publications

• Abdolreza Roshani, Azadeh Esfandyari. ”Assembly line balancing problem with skilled and unskilled workers: The advantages of considering multi-manned workstations.” Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 13, (2020): 66-77.
• Esfandyari, Azadeh, Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi. ”User identification across online social networks in practice: Pitfalls and solutions.” Journal of Information Science 44, no. 3 (2018): 377-391.
• Zignani, Matteo, Azadeh Esfandyari, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi. ”Walls-in-one: usage and temporal patterns in a social media aggregator.” Applied Network Science 1, no. 1 (2016): 1-24.
• Esfandyari, Azadeh, Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi. ”Impact of offline events on online link creation: a case study on events advertised on Facebook.” In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1186-1188. 2016.
• Zignani, Matteo, Azadeh Esfandyari, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi. ”Following People’s Behavior across Social Media.” In 2015 11th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), pp. 428-435. IEEE, 2015.
• Roshani, Abdolreza, Arezoo Roshani, Abdolhassan Roshani, Mohsen Salehi, and Azadeh Esfandyari. ”A simulated annealing algorithm for multi-manned assembly line balancing problem.” Journal of Manufacturing Systems 32, no. 1 (2013): 238-247.
• ESfandyari, Azadeh, and Masoud Barati. ”A New Semantic Service Discovery in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Information Security 3,no. 5(2012).
• Esfandyari, Azadeh, and Vahid Rafe. ”A formal framework for software development using publish/Subscribe architecture.” In 2010 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), vol. 1, pp. V1-258. IEEE, 2010.

Contact Details

E: azadeh.esfandyari@beds.ac.uk