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MELBOURNE: Australia-based Pakistani computer scientist Shazia Sadiq has been recognized for innovative STEM research by the prestigious Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).

She has named among 25 new Fellows elected this year to the ATSE who have been honoured for their trailblazing work in changing the world for the better. ATSE President Hugh Bradlow said the collective impact of the group’s work cannot be underestimated.

“ATSE Fellows are elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to advancing engineering, technology and applied science: these are the best of the best,” Professor Bradlow said. “They have advanced health care and food production, found new ways to purify water, grown the renewable energy sector, created new building materials, and transformed computing power.

“Many of the Academy of Technology and Engineering’s 2020 new Fellows have had a transformative influence on entire sectors, and established world-leading Australian businesses. As Fellows, their expertise will be put to use to contribute to ATSE’s mission to provide expert evidence-based advice to governments and society.”

Shazia Sadiq has been recognized for her work which focuses on developing solutions for Business Information Systems to more effectively process information, significantly improving business process management, governance, and risk and compliance data.

Shazia is a computer science professor at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. In 1989, Shazia received an MSc degree in computer science from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She completed her MS in computer science from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1993.

She then moved to Australia and earned a PhD in information systems from the University of Queensland in 2002. Shazia is also the deputy chairperson of the National Committee on Information and Communication Sciences of the Australian Academy of Science.