Areen Jamal Hamad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, earned between 2007 and 2010. In 2012, she was awarded the prestigious Human Capacity Development Program (HCDP) scholarship by the Kurdistan Regional Government, enabling her to pursue a Master of Science in Information Systems at University of Sheffield, from which she graduated in Sep,2013.

Following her graduation, she joined the Ministry of Education and was appointed to Erbil Polytechnic University, where she contributed to both academic and administrative roles. Seeking to further expand her expertise, she later pursued a second Master’s degree in Advanced Information Systems and Software Engineering at Grenoble INP, completing the program in Jul-2019.

Her research interests include e-government implementation, data engineering, and the application of machine learning techniques in software engineering. She has completed two major research projects:

• Barriers to Implementing E-Government in Kurdistan (2013)
• Clustering and Classification of Execution Traces of a Testing System Using Machine Learning Algorithms (2019)