Associate Professor, NextGen Center Academic Director

 
Dubai Academic City, D-L1-042
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Allozi is a current Associate Professor and the Director of the NextGen center at the CTI at Zayed University - Dubai. Enas pursued an integrated PhD degree in Information Systems & Computing at a young age from Brunel University London in 2011, and that gave her the opportunity of being exposed to several administrative & academic activities at an early stage of her career path. Allozi served as head of department for several years and led several departmental committees, including the "computing & e-learning committee", the "scientific research committee", the AACSB, ABET, and local quality assurance committees. She has been in charge of the international/hybrid learning program at the faculty of Business/Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan for several years as well. Her research interests cover topics in systems HCI, IoT, process modeling, enterprise systems, IS success theories, and Web applications. Allozi has published over 20 research papers with local and international co-authors in highly ranked and well-recognized journals. As a researcher, Allozi is always eager to learn more and gain expertise and knowledge throughout my academic career path through continuous engagement and involvement in international curricula and extracurricular activities.

 

• Ph. D. in Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, 2011
• MBA in Enterprise Systems, The University of Jordan, Jordan, 2008
• B. Sc. in Management Information Systems, The University of Jordan, Jordan, 2006

 

• Systems Analysis & Design
• IT Entrepreneurship
• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• IT Infrastructure & Architecture

 

Professional Activities
• Acting Director of the Next Gen center, College of technological innovation, Zayed University, UAE, 2025-Present
• Chair of ABET committee of program accreditation, Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, CTI, Zayed University, 2023-2024
• Co-chair of the CAA BSISTM re-accreditation committee, department of ISTM, CTI, Zayed University, 2024
• Head of Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Business, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, 2019-2022
• Head of Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Business, Al-Zaytoonah Univerity of Jordan, 2015-2016
• Head of the scientific research committee, Faculty of Business, ZUJ, 2020-2022
• Member of the university’s council for e-learning, 2019-2022
• Head of the Business Analytics Master’s degree program at ZUJ, 2020-2022
• In charge as head of the blended learning/international program at the faculty of business, 2019-2022
• Head of electronic learning and computing services committee, Faculty of Business, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, 2019-2022
• Head of an accreditation committee, Higher Education Accreditation Commission at Ajloun University, MIS Department, 2015
• Research Assistant (RA) at Brunel University/London, Faculty of Information Systems, Computing, and Mathematics, Department of Information Systems and Computing, 2009-2011
• Teaching Assistant (TA) at the University of Jordan, Faculty of Business, Department of Management Information Systems, 2006-2008

Research Area(s)
• Systems HCI
• IoT
• Process Modeling
• Enterprise Systems
• IS Success Theories
• Web Applications

Professional Involvement
• Professional development engagement, The SAP Academic Community Conference EMEA, The Athens University of Economics and Business at the Athens Mariott Hotel, Greece, 2025-2026
• Faculty Advisor at the ZU solves onboarding program, Zayed University, 2025-2026
• Student advisor at the CTI Fazaa club, Zayed university, 2025-Present
• Advisor for the ZU Podcast, Zayed university Dubai, 2025-Present
• Mentor at the Innovation hackathon, Zayed University, 2025
• Mentor and judge at the Digital Innovation hackathon, 2024-2025
• Pannel discussion Moderator at the SRC Zayed university, 2025
• Judge, Intelligent ICT awards middle east, UAE, 2025
• Chair session at the 38th IEEE international system on chip conference, UAE, 2025
• Active member of the Teaching & learning committee, ISTM, Zayed university, 2024-Present
• Active member of the CTI Website committee, Zayed university, 2024-Present
• Active member of the student affairs committee, CTI, Zayed university, 2022-Present
• Journal editor at the journal of Digital multimedia broadcasting, Wiley, 2023-2024
• Member of the Editorial Manager for Technology in Society Committee, 2020-2022
• Reviewer with Jordan Journal of Business Administration, 2020-2022
• Associate Editor at the annual international European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2015
• Main reviewer at the annual international European & Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS), 2012
• Main Reviewer at the annual international American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2010

Certifications and Training
• Training program for Zayed University: Designing assessment in the era Of AI – Cambridge Academy, 2024-2025
• Technical Training, AI & Technology division, Hamdan Bin Mohammed smart university, UAE, 2024
• Certified Online educator 2.0, Hamdan Bin Mohammed smart university, UAE, 2024
• Graduate teaching orientation, Center for educational innovation, Zayed University, UAE, 2024
• Fellowship (FHEA), In recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education, 2022-2023
• Microsoft Power BI, Zabeel Institute, UAE, 2023
• PMP training course – In preparation for the PMP exam, 2022
• ITPF-001 Instructional Design and Planning, Part of the Innovative Teaching Program accredited by AdvanceHE/ Zayed University, 2022
• Training on ERP systems/ SAP HANA cloud analytics/ Zayed University in collaboration with SAP, 2022-2023
• Training on Blackboard Interactive Tools delivered by the Centre for Educational Innovation – Zayed University, 2022-2023
• Training Program at General Center for Software Development on Alpha ERP and HR System / Al-Zaytoonah university, 2021

Notable Projects and Contributions
• Main PI - Research incentive fund, CTI, Zayed University. Entitled: “AI-Driven Energy Price Forecasting: Enhancing energy Predictive Accuracy for Optimized Electricity Market Operations”, 2025-2026
• Research Assistant / Digital Transformation Maturity in the public sector Zayed University in collaboration with MOFA – UAE, 2023-2024
• Development of Smart Interactive Classrooms Funded by Al Zaytoonah Univerity of Jordan; in response to Government regulations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the e-learning transformation, 2020-2022
• Acquiring an ERP Software as a Teaching Technique Tool for the Faculty of Business; Funded by Al-Zaytoonah Univerity of Jordan, 2019-2021

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