Dr Joseph El Gemayel
Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
Personal statement
An experienced university educator with over ten years of teaching expertise in computer science, particularly within the domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, across undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PGT) levels at various private and public universities located in different countries.
Joined the University of Strathclyde as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences on August, 2020.
Joseph’s research interests focus on building Autonomous Adaptive and Self-Learners Multi-Agent Systems and in the development and the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques with special focus on game-based learning and applications for education
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Prize And Awards
- Fellow of Advance HE
- Recipient
- 9/2022
- Teaching Excellence Awards Team Award
- Recipient
- 31/8/2022
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Publications
- A distributed RAG-based framework for automated extraction of information from multiple types of resources
- El Gemayel Charbel, El Gemayel Joseph, Constantin Joseph
- 2025 IEEE/ACS 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) The ACS/IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) 2025 IEEE/ACS 22nd International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) (2026)
- A semantic-aware multiple description coding framework for robust wireless video transmission
- Fernando Thanuj, Jayasinghe Mudalige Udara Thilini Darshika, Samarathunga Liyanage Don Buddhi Prabhath Samarathunga, Pollwaththage Nimesh Nadeesha, El Gemayel Joseph, Fernando Anil
- 2026 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 44th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (2025)
- Multi-frame optimized virtual reference frame for low-delay predictive video compression
- Pollwaththage Nimesh Nadeesha, Ganearachchi Yasith Lakmal, Samarathunga Liyanage Don Buddhi Prabhath Samarathunga, El Gemayel Joseph, Fernando Anil
- 2026 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 44th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (2025)
- Planly : Teaching AI planning through block-based programming and robotics
- Clift Lee, Anderson Damien, Weir Catriona, Rodgers Phil, El Gemayel Joseph
- ACM Digital Library with its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) Human-Centered AI Education & Practice Conference (2025)
- A learner-centred interactive tool for teaching AI search algorithms with stage-based pedagogy (pilot findings)
- Sultana Husam, El Gemayel Joseph
- HCAIep '26: Human-Centered AI Education & Practice Conference (2025)
- A hybrid semantic-syntactic video codec with CNN-transformer encoding and VVC residual coding
- Fernando Thanuj, Pollwaththage Nimesh Nadeesha, Samarathunga Liyanage Don Buddhi Prabhath Samarathunga, Jayasinghe Mudalige Udara Thilini Darshika, El Gemayel Joseph, Fernando Anil
- IEEE 19th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) 2025 IEEE 19th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (2025)
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Teaching
- AI search algorithms and Planning,
- Machine Learning,
- Computer programming with Python,
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Professional Activities
- Planly: Teaching AI planning through block-based programming and robotics
- Speaker
- 21/1/2026
- SIGCSE Technical Symposium (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 10/2025
- Demystifying Neural Networks: a stage-based learning approach for novice students
- Speaker
- 5/9/2025
- 9th SLAAI International Conference on AI 2025 (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 8/2025
- United Kingdom Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (ACM UK SIGCSE) (External organisation)
- Member
- 7/2025
- Outreach Workshop – Science @ Strathclyde
- Presenter
- 25/5/2025
Projects
- Cultivating Collaborative Networks for Individual Computing Projects and Dissertations (CPHC special project)
- El Gemayel, Joseph (Co-investigator) Riddle, Steve (Principal Investigator) Zarb, Mark (Principal Investigator) Elawady, Mohamed (Co-investigator) Maier, Patrick (Co-investigator) Ali, Hazrat (Co-investigator) Kolberg, Mario (Co-investigator) Corsar, David (Co-investigator) Balasubramaniam, Dharini (Co-investigator) Everett, Miles (Co-investigator) Forshaw, Matthew (Co-investigator) Scott, Michael (Co-investigator) Bhardwaj, Jyoti (Co-investigator)
- 25-Jan-2025
- Demystifying Neural Networks: A Stage-Based Learning Approach for Novice Students (funded by CPHC Special Project Grant)
- El Gemayel, Joseph (Principal Investigator) Kydd, Marc (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024
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Contact
Dr
Joseph
El Gemayel
Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: joseph.el-gemayel@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted