Engineering and Information Technology
Biography
Noor M. Al-Shakarji is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Missouri–Columbia. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from MU, where her research focused on computer vision, machine learning and image processing for biomedical, geospatial and video analysis applications. Her expertise spans multi-object detection and tracking, hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing, biomedical image analysis and AI-driven video analytics. Al-Shakarji has contributed to projects including cell tracking with mitosis detection, zebrafish neuroscience behavior analysis, wild turkey monitoring using UAV-based thermal imaging and wide-area motion imagery object tracking. Her work has appeared in leading journals and conferences such as Information Fusion, Nature Methods, CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, and ISBI. Al-Shakarji has also earned recognition in international competitions, including the CVPR Cell Tracking with Mitosis Detection Challenge, the ISBI Cell Tracking Challenge and the NeurIPS SpaceNet 7 Challenge and received the Best Paper Award at ICCV 2021. In addition to her research, she is dedicated to teaching and mentoring, developing innovative curricula that connect foundational computing skills with real-world applications.
Education
PhD in computer science from University of Missouri-Columbia
MS in computer science from University of Missouri-Columbia
MS in computer science from University of Technology, Iraq