Staff Directory


Zainatul Shima Abdullah

Academic Qualification

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Information System) - Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology
  • Master of Computer Science - Masters Degree, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
  • Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) - Bachelor Degree, Clarkson University

Zainatul Shima Abdullah (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

KULLIYYAH OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY


shima@iium.edu.my
5631


Expert Profile


Zainatul Shima binti Abdullah obtained her BSc (Hon) from Clarkson University, USA, MSc from University Putra Malaysia and Ph.D from Curtin University, Australia. Prior to joining the IIUM, she worked as an application engineer at PERNEC Corporation Berhad, as the Network Management System Project Manager at TIME Quantum Technology; and as the education consultant focusing on Oracle Technologies at Oracle Corporation Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
She obtained her Ph.D in 2012 with her thesis "Hospital Information System Implementation Framework: Critical Success Factors for Malaysian Public Hospitals". Since then, her publications focus on hospital and health systems, health information seeking behaviour, Data Mining, Enterprise Information Architecture, Big Data and IT in Agriculture.
Presently, she is teaching at the Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT), IIUM where she teaches ICT related courses, database courses, data mining and data management course. She is also assisting the Director of Information Technology Division (ITD), IIUM in managing the Collaborative and Academic Application Services Section. Her main task at ITD is to ensure that all the IT projects are completed and delivered within the allowable timeframe.


Area of Specialisation


  • ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ ICT Policy and Social Impact ~ Social Impact
  • Economics, Business And Management ~ Economics, Business And Management ~ Management ~ Management Information System
  • ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ ICT Policy and Social Impact ~ ICT Policies
  • ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ Database Technology ~ Data Warehousing


Teaching Responsibilities


ADVANCED DATA MANAGEMENT 2018/2019
BIG DATA ACROSS VERTICALS AND DOMAINS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
DATA MANAGEMENT 2017/2018 2015/2016 2014/2015
DATA MINING 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
DATABASE PROGRAMMING 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2007/2008 2006/2007
DATABASE SYSTEM II 2013/2014
DATABASE SYSTEMS 2023/2024 2017/2018 2016/2017
FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1 2017/2018
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014
INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT 2022/2023 2021/2022 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2015/2016 2006/2007
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2012/2013
PRACTICAL TRAINING 2006/2007
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES 2016/2017 2015/2016


Supervision


Islamic Business Intelligence Usage Model In Saudi Arabia Universities.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Supervisor Supervisory Committee
A Model On Influence Of It Leadership On It Governance Effectiveness: A Case Study Of Higher Education Institutions Of Malaysia.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Co-supervisor
A Model Of Digital Marketing Adoption And Its Effect On The Competitiveness Among Smes In Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
Cloud Computing Adoption Model Based On It Officers Perception In Malaysian Public Higher Education Institutions.
Ph.D Completed 2019 Co-supervisor
User Traversal Behaviour Mining Of Server Logs Using Fuzzy Frs.
Ph.D Completed 2018 Main Supervisor
Using Mobile Application To Improve The Writing Skill Of Deaf Students.
Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor
The Use Of Sentiment Analysis In Social Media To Revitalise Technical And Vocational Education And Training (Tvet).
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor
Cancer Diagnosis Using Data Mining.
Master Completed 2019 Main Supervisor
Fake News Detection In Social Media.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2014 - 2017 Modelling Health Information Seeking Behaviour Framework for Palliative Patients and Carers
On-Going
2023 - Present Using Learning Analytics to Improve Online Teaching Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Multi-Dimensional Investigation


Publications


Article

2019 Assessing Arabic language learning for deaf student: a study of using mobile immersion in Saudi Arabia. International Journal on Perceptive and Cognitive Computing (IJPCC), 5 (2) pp. 1-5
2019 IslamTAM: revising technology acceptance model from the Islamic perspective. International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technology, 7 (3) pp. 22-32
2017 Review of Malaysian Tenth Health Plan 2011-2015. Journal of Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences, 3 (2) pp. 289-294
Conference or Workshop Item

2023 Business Intelligence implementation obstacles in Saudi Public Universities. In: 2023 3rd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT),
2022 Factors affecting customers' adoption of internet banking in Afghanistan. In: 2022 10th International Conference on Cyber and IT Service Management (CITSM),
2018 Assessing Arabic language learning for deaf student: a study of using mobile immersion in Saudi Arabia. In: 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M),
2018 IslamTAM: revising technology acceptance model from the Islamic perspective. In: 6th International Conference on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology,
2018 Mining Web usage using FRS. In: 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M),
2015 Web usage mining: A review of recent works. In: 2014 the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2014),
2014 Enterprise information architecture of a Malaysian institute of higher learning management information system: an experience. In: Malaysian National Conference of Databases 2014 (MaNCoD 2014),