Personal Statement
I obtained my MEng degree in information technology from the University of Damascus, and completed my PhD at the University of Liverpool. My PhD research focused on Computational Argumentation and its applications to Data Mining. After working for two years in industry, I joined the faculty of Health and Life Sciences where I tranisition from computer science to disease ecology and integrative virology.

Research Overview
In which wild hosts do pathogens hide? Where might novel pathogens come from? What attributes might these pathogens have? These are the interlinked questions I aspire to solve. To date I have made significant inroads to finding the answers by integrating machine-learning, complex-networks, and big data. In the near future, I aim to transform my research from being strictly computational, to becoming verifiable both in the lab and the field.