Overview
Background
Shazia Sadiq FTSE is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. Her research focusses on responsible data management and aims to reduce the socio-technical barriers to data driven transformation, by assisting organisations to create, protect and sustain agile data pipelines. Her work has contributed to advancing knowledge on data quality management, scalable data curation and cleaning, and bias mitigation for advanced opaque analytical models and techniques, and process improvements for data-driven organisations. She is part of the Data Science discipline that has received the highest ranking for excellence in research for Australia in every round of ERA. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications and attracted $20million in research funding from the Australian Research Council, industry and various national and international funding bodies. She has recieved numerous research awards including Test-of-Time award for influential work on Business Process Compliance, Best Use of Data award from Queensland Government, Distinguished Researcher Award from Women in Tech, and several best paper awards at international conferences. Shazia has been a devoted lecturer for two decades, and an advocate of learning analytics and AI in Education for improving personalized learning and equitable graduate outcomes. In 2012, she received an institutional award for teaching excellence and in 2016 she spearheaded the highly successful Master of Data Science program at UQ, that is helping overcome skill shortages in Queensland for qualified data scientists. She is currently leading UQ's AI Strategy and Capability Development work as the convenor of UQ's AI Research Network that brings together over 100 interdisciplinary researchers. Shazia is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, immediate past chair of the National Committee on Information and Communication Sciences at the Australian Academy of Science 2019-2023, a member of The Australian Research Council College of Experts 2018-2021, and Centre Director for the ARC Industry Transformation Training Centre on Information Resilience 2020-2025.
Availability
- Professor Shazia Sadiq is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, Quaid-i-Azam University
- Masters (Coursework), Quaid-i-Azam University
- Masters (Coursework), Asian Institute of Technology Thailand
Research interests
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Data and Information Quality
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Database Mangement
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Business Process Management
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Conceptual Modelling
Works
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2010
Conference Publication
Avoiding inconsistency in user preferences for data quality aware queries
Yeganeh, Naiem Khodabandehloo and Sadiq, Shazia (2010). Avoiding inconsistency in user preferences for data quality aware queries. Business Information Systems 13th International Conference (BIS 2010), Berlin, Germany, 3-5 May 2010. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12814-1_6
2010
Journal Article
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: Preface
Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie, Sadiq, Shazia and Leymann, Frank (2010). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: Preface. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 43 LNBIP
2010
Conference Publication
Socialization of work practice through business process analysis
Setiawan, Mukhammad Andri and Sadiq, Shazia (2010). Socialization of work practice through business process analysis. 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2010, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 8th - 12 June 2010. INSTICC Digital Library: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC).
2010
Conference Publication
Transformation of SBVR compliant business rules to executable FCL rules
Kamada, A, Governatori, G and Sadiq, S (2010). Transformation of SBVR compliant business rules to executable FCL rules. RuleML 2010: The 4th International Web Rule Symposium. Research Based and Industry Focused, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 21-23 October 2010. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-16289-3_14
2010
Conference Publication
Sampling dirty data for matching attributes
Koehler, Henning, Zhou, Xiaofang, Sadiq, Shazia, Shu, Yanfeng and Taylor, Kerry (2010). Sampling dirty data for matching attributes. 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 6-11 June 2010. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1807167.1807177
2010
Book Chapter
A methodological framework for aligning business processes and regulatory compliance
Sadiq, Shazia and Governatori, Guido (2010). A methodological framework for aligning business processes and regulatory compliance. Handbook of business process management: 2. Strategic alignment, governance, people and culture. (pp. 159-176) edited by Jan Brocke and Michael Rosemann. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
2009
Journal Article
Preface
Sadiq, Shazia, Indulska, Marta and Zur Muehlen, Michael (2009). Preface. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 459, xviii-xix.
2009
Journal Article
Workshop organizers' message
Sadiq, Shazia, Deng, Ke, Zhou, Xiaofang, Yang, Xiaochun, Aref, Walid G., Delis, Alex, Liu, Qing and Xu, Kai (2009). Workshop organizers' message. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5667 LNCS, 95-96. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04205-8_9
2009
Journal Article
Evie - A developer toolkit for encoding service interaction patterns
O'Hagan, Anthony M. J., Sadiq, Shazia and Sadiq, Wasim (2009). Evie - A developer toolkit for encoding service interaction patterns. Information Systems Frontiers, 11 (3), 211-225. doi: 10.1007/s10796-008-9085-4
2009
Journal Article
Instance optimal query processing in spatial networks
Deng, Ke, Zhou, Xiaofeng, Shen, Heng Tao, Sadiq, Shazia and Li, Xue (2009). Instance optimal query processing in spatial networks. The VLDB Journal, 18 (3), 675-693. doi: 10.1007/s00778-008-0115-0
2009
Journal Article
Beyond rigidity - dynamic process lifecycle support: A survey on dynamic changes in process-aware information systems
Weber, Barbara, Sadiq, Shazia and Reichert, Manfred (2009). Beyond rigidity - dynamic process lifecycle support: A survey on dynamic changes in process-aware information systems. Computer Science - Research and Development, 23 (2), 47-65. doi: 10.1007/s00450-009-0069-5
2009
Edited Outputs
Proceedings of the DASFAA 2008 Workshops
Chee-Yong Chan, Sanjay Chawla, Shazia Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou and Vikram Pudi eds. (2009). Proceedings of the DASFAA 2008 Workshops. Data Quality and High Dimensional Data Analysis, New Dehli, India, 19-22 March 2008. World Scientific.
2009
Edited Outputs
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRCIS'09)
Sadiq, S., Indulska, M., zur Muehlen, M., Dubois, E. and Johannesson, P. eds. (2009). Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRCIS'09). International Workshop on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRCIS'09), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 June 2009. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
2009
Conference Publication
Learning from experience: Can e-learning technology be used as a vehicle?
Au, Thien Wan, Sadiq, Shazia and Li, Xue (2009). Learning from experience: Can e-learning technology be used as a vehicle?. ICEL 2009: 4th International Conference on e-Learning, Toronto, Canada, 16-17 June 2009. Reading, U.K.: Academic Publishing.
2009
Conference Publication
Defining adaptation constraints for business process variants
Lu, Ruopeng, Sadiq, Shazia, Governatori, Guido and Yang, Xiaoping (2009). Defining adaptation constraints for business process variants. 12th International Conference, Business Information Systems, 2009, Poznan, Poland, 27-29 April 2009. Berlin & Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01190-0_13
2009
Conference Publication
Detecting regulatory compliance for business process models through semantic annotations
Guido Governatori, Joerg Hoffmann, Shazia Sadiq and Ingo Weber (2009). Detecting regulatory compliance for business process models through semantic annotations. 4th International Workshop on Business Process Design, Milan, Italy, 1 September 2008. Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_2
2009
Conference Publication
Processing group nearest group query
Deng, Ke, Xu, Hu, Sadiq, Shazia, Lu, Yansheng, Fung, Pui Cheong Gabriel and Shen, Heng Tao (2009). Processing group nearest group query. 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, 29 March - 2 April 2009. U.S.A.: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2009.186
2009
Conference Publication
A study of compliance management in information systems research
Abdullah, Syed Norris, Indulska, Marta and Sadiq, Shazia (2009). A study of compliance management in information systems research. The 17th European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, Italy, 8-10 June 2009. Verona, Italy: European Conference on Information Systems.
2009
Edited Outputs
Data quality and high-dimensional data analysis: Proceedings of the DASFAA 2008 workshops
Chan, Chee-Yong, Chawla, Sanjay, Sadiq, Shazia, Zhou, Xiaofang and Pudi, Vikram eds. (2009). Data quality and high-dimensional data analysis: Proceedings of the DASFAA 2008 workshops. DASFAA 2008, New Delhi, India, 19-21 March 2008. Singapore; Hackensack, NJ, U.S.: World Scientific.
2009
Conference Publication
Data quality aware queries in collaborative information systems
Yeganeh, N. K., Sadiq, S., Deng, K. and Zhou, X. (2009). Data quality aware queries in collaborative information systems. Joint International Conferences, APWeb/WAIM, Suzhou, China, 2-4 April 2009. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00672-2_6
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Shazia Sadiq is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
A Process Oriented Approach to Value Creation from Data Products
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Associate Professor Ida Asadi Someh
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical Success Factors in Data Driven Value Creation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Gianluca Demartini
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Master Philosophy
'Designing socio-technical controls for autonomous AI systems: An approach for responsible enterprise adoption'.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Associate Professor Ida Asadi Someh
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Doctor Philosophy
Coordinating for Innovation in Ecosystems: A Sensemaking Perspective
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Burton-Jones
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Doctor Philosophy
Bias Mitigation in Human in the Loop Decision Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gianluca Demartini
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Doctor Philosophy
Customer Data Stories
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gianluca Demartini
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Doctor Philosophy
Value Measurement of Data Products
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Expanding Data Sets to Allow Improved Critical Care for Children - Outpatient Risk Prediction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Adam Irwin, Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
AI-powered actionable Insights and Interventions in Multi-Sourced Educational Data
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Wojtek Tomaszewski, Dr Hassan Khosravi
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Doctor Philosophy
Data as a Service Architecture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Sensemaking in Integrative Multi-artefact Information Tasks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Gianluca Demartini
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2021
Master Philosophy
Integrated Information Risk Management Framework
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2021
Master Philosophy
An exploration of data quality awareness and impacts in healthcare
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK OF EFFECTIVE USE OF BIG DATA
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
A PATTERN BASED APPROACH FOR DATA QUALITY REQUIREMENTS MODELLING
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Effect of Using Domain Ontologies to Facilitate Shared Understanding and Cross-Understanding in Groups
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2016
Master Philosophy
A Data-Driven Approach for Discovery of Data Quality Requirements
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
A Framework for Socialisation of Work Practice for Improving Business Process Performance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Xue Li
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT ONTOLOGY: ENABLING SHARED UNDERSTANDING IN COMPLIANCE PRACTICE
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
A Framework for Investigating, Analysing and Recommending eLearning Experience
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Xue Li
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Customizing activity behaviour for flexible business process execution
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Xue Li
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Framework for Personalized eLearning based on Pedagogical Dependencies
Principal Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
An Ontology Server for Ontology-based Interoperation of Information Systems
Principal Advisor
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
On Optimal Path Computations in Intensive Messaging Environments
Principal Advisor
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Design Considerations for Query Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
Principal Advisor
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2026
Doctor Philosophy
Advancing Causal Effect Estimation: From Training Data Expansion to Estimator Design
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin, Associate Professor Rocky Chen
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Recommending Insightful Actions in Learning Analytics Dashboards
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Dr Hassan Khosravi
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Automating Expertise in Identifying Structured Data Quality Issues: From Experts, Through Novices, to Machines
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Gianluca Demartini
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
On the Role of Human and Machine Metadata in Crowdsourced Data Annotation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Gianluca Demartini
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Improving the Work Environment and Data Quality in Micro-Task Crowdsourcing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gianluca Demartini
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
AI and Learning Analytics to Improve Peer Review and Feedback in Learnersourcing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Learner Models for Learnersourced Adaptive Educational Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Intelligence Behind Annotations: A Study of Understanding Interaction Behavior when the Human is in the Loop
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gianluca Demartini
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2020
Master Philosophy
Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms for Discrete Datasets
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Large-scale Content Management and Retrieval for Social Media
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
POINT OF INTERESTS RECOMMENDATION IN LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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2017
Master Philosophy
SQL Extensions for Domain Agnostic Data Representational Consistency
Associate Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
SharkDB: An In-Memory Storage System for Large Scale Trajectory Data Management
Associate Advisor
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Quality-Aware Trajectory Processing Using Significant Locations
Associate Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
Business Process Enforcement Using Harmonized Messaging Technology
Associate Advisor
Media
Enquiries
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- Business process management - and IT
- Data quality management
- Databases
- Governance - IT
- Information systems
- Information technology
- IT - risk and compliance
- Risk and compliance - IT
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