Dr. Noha Adly
Professor, Computer Systems and Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University,
Egypt Deputy Head – ICT Sector – Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Egypt

Dr. Noha Adly is the Deputy Head of the Information and Communication Technology Sector of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), Egypt.

She is also a Professor in the Computer and Systems Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, UK in 1995. She was a Research Associate at AT&T Cambridge Research Laboratory (1995-1997) and a Visiting Researcher (1997-2000).
 Dr. Adly is responsible for the BA's overall ICT strategy, architecting the BA's data policies and systems, prioritizing projects implementation, and managing the Library's network infrastructure. Dr. Adly also oversees the International School of Information Science (ISIS), a research center within the Library’s ICT sector. She initiates cooperation between ISIS and other international organizations to promote research and implement pioneering ideas and is responsible for developing, carrying out and promoting activities and projects related to building a universal digital library. She represents the Bibliotheca Alexandrina at the Digital Library Federation (DLF), she is the co-chair of the Technical Architecture Committee of the World Digital Library (WDL) and is a member of the steering committee of the Réseau Francophone des Bibliothèques Nationales Numériques (RFBNN). Dr. Adly has been chosen in 2008 as a member of the IAP Program Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Information Resource Center (IRC), the Sub-Committee of Technology for the UNESCO Memory of the world project (SCoT).
Dr. Adly is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, as well as several other scientific, social and humanitarian organizations. Her research interests are distributed systems, database and operating systems, data management in mobile computing, modeling and simulation, and digital libraries. Dr. Adly is also author/co-author of more than 40 publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific conferences in the field of computer science and engineering, and is recipient of several international awards. She delivers a large number of local and international presentations and invited talks annually.