Esraa Ali is a Senior Data Scientist at Carelon Global Solutions. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher in Adapt Centre (DCU), working in the area of personalization and modeling user profiles using knowledge graphs. Her main research interest centers on how personalization can enhance information retrieval and recommender systems. In September 2021, Esraa earned her PhD degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD research was in the area of personalization and faceted search systems. Her thesis introduced several type-based facet ranking approaches based on user interests.Before starting her PhD, Esraa used to work as Big Data Technical Consultant at ITWORX with experience in developing advanced analytics and Big Data projects for Government, Telecommunication and Enterprises entities. Areas of expertise include system architecture, design, and development. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Helwan University, 2006; and a M. Sc. in Software Engineering from Nile University, 2011, the research was in the area of data mining and machine learning. On a parallel track, Esraa was IEEE graduate student member with more than 10 years of volunteering experience in IEEE Egypt section. She held various positions in MIE competition, EED exhibition and participated in other activities of IEEE Young Professionals. She also co-founded FCI-H IEEE student branch and Women in Engineering (WIE) IEEE affinity group in Egypt.Interests: Personalization, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Graphs, NLP, Big Data and Data Science.