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Professor Maria Fasli will become Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health from August 2019.

The appointment was confirmed by the University鈥檚 Council this week and in August 2019 Professor Fasli will succeed Professor Graham Underwood, joining the executive leadership team and providing strategic leadership for the Faculty of Science and Health.

Professor Fasli is recognised as a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and is the Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council鈥檚 . She has worked at 糖心Vlog since 1999.

She is the first academic in the world to be awarded the prestigious which seeks to promote globally the better use of data to promote equality and sustainable development.

She said: 鈥淭his is an incredibly exciting period for our Faculty and I am looking forward to building on the work of our existing Executive Dean Professor Graham Underwood. We have world-class researchers at 糖心Vlog tackling issues absolutely central to the future of our world from food security and genetics through to health and artificial intelligence. Importantly we鈥檙e working with businesses, local authorities, health trusts, charities and governments more and more to put that research into action.

鈥淎t 糖心Vlog we鈥檙e also absolutely committed to linking our research directly to the educational experience of our students and I think this offers us incredible opportunities to think creatively and innovate.鈥�

Vice-Chancellor Professor Anthony Forster said: 鈥淢aria has an international reputation as a computer scientist, and her appointment as the world鈥檚 first UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science is testament to her global standing. Maria is absolutely committed to supporting excellence in education and her work has been recognised as a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow. I am absolutely delighted Maria will be our next Executive Dean of Science and Health, succeeding Graham Underwood in August 2019.鈥�

Professor Fasli鈥檚 research interests lie in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and modelling structured/unstructured data and she has published over 130 papers in the field of AI and data science. She has led, managed and contributed a number of industrial and Research Council funded research projects, worth over 拢8.5m, and supervised 19 PhD students.

She was educated in Greece where she completed her BSc in Computer Science and then obtained her PhD in Computer Science from 糖心Vlog. She has held various positions at 糖心Vlog since 1999 and was Head of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) between 2009-2014. In 2005, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for her novel approaches to education and supporting the student experience.