Shayma Alkobaisi is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Technology (CIT) in the United Arab Emirates University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Denver in June 2008. Dr. Alkobaisi’s current research interests include Uncertainty Management in Spatiotemporal Databases, Online Query Processing in Spatial Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Computational Geometry. In 2009, she was selected as a member of the Advisory Council to the Science and Technology Program at Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy, Abu Dhabi and in 2010 she was appointed manager of that program.

She is currently serving as the Enterprise Systems and E-Commerce tracks coordinator at CIT.