The school is proud to announce that Ayman Salama has successfully passed his PhD viva subject to minor changes within 3 months. The viva, held on 29 February 2024, was examined by Professor Dr Naomie Salim (external examiner) and Dr. Iman Yi Liao (internal examiner), and was chaired by Dr. Colin Johnson. Many congratulations to Ayman Salama, who successfully defended his thesis entitled Information Retrieval and Temporal Knowledge Evolution. Ayman was supervised by Prof. Tomas Maul (primary) and Prof. Neil Crout. As a parallel outcome to this thesis, Ayman published the following research articles:

• Nizar, N. M. M., Jahanshiri, E., Tharmandram, A. S., Salama, A., Sinin, S. S. M., Abdullah, N. J., ... & Azam-Ali, S. N. (2021). Underutilised crops database for supporting agricultural diversification. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 180, 105920.
• Salama, A., Maul, T., Jahanshiri, E., Nizar, N. M. M. (2019) “Effecrtive neural information retrival in crop soil requirement classification”, 4th International conference on crop improvement. UPM.
• Salama, Ayman., Maul, T., Jahanshiri, Ebrahim. (2017). “Detecting cropping patterns of underutilized crops using online big data”, 2nd International conference on “Future Technology Conference”. IEEE.
• Salama, A., Maul, T., Jahanshiri, E., Crout, N. (2017) “Journey from text mining to neural information retrieval in agricultural data science”, ICBAA 2017-4 International Conference on Big Data Applications in Agriculture. UPM.