Dorothy Monekosso

Dorothy N. Monekosso is a British academic. She is professor of computer science in the School of Arts, Engineering and Technology at Leeds Beckett University. She researches ambient assisted living (AAL), intelligent environments, smart homes, and assistive robotics.

Monekosso began her career in space technology research at Surrey Satellite Technology, developing on-board computers and other systems for small satellites and spacecraft. During her PhD at the Surrey Space Centre, she became interested in machine learning,[1] and moved into developing intelligent and robotic systems for security and healthcare applications.[2]

In 2015 she moved from Bournemouth University to take up her current professorship of computer science at Leeds Beckett University.[2]

In March 2020 she was among the 40 black women professors celebrated in the photographic exhibition Phenomenal Women.[1]

Works
  • (ed. with Paolo Remagnino and Yoshinori Kuno) Intelligent environments: methods, algorithms and applications. London: Springer, 2008.
  • ed. with Paolo Remagnino and Lakhmi C. Jain) Innovations in defence support systems. 3, Intelligent paradigms in security. Berlin: Springer, 2011.
  • (with Myo Thida, How-lung Eng and Paolo Remagnino) Contextual analysis of videos. San Rafael, California : Morgan & Claypool, 2013.

References
  1. Nicola Rollock, Professor Dorothy Monekosso, Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors, March 2020.
  2. Carrie Braithwaite, Leeds Beckett appoints new Professors, 27 October 2015. Accessed 27 July 2020.
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