Arbana Kadriu

Education

• Jun 2005 - May 2008: PhD in Computer Sciences
  Faculty: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Informatics
  Ss. Cyril and Methodius University , Skopje, Macedonia
  Specialty: Natural Language Processing
  Thesis: "Analysis, Morphological Segmentation and Electronic Translation of Agentive Nouns"
  
  
• 1999 - 2002: MSc in Elec. Technic Sciences
  Faculty: Electrotechnical Faculty
  Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
  
  
• 1992 - 1997: Engineer of Informatics
  Faculty: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Informatics
  Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
  
  

Publications

• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES AND COMMUNITIES. In PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE DIGITAL COMPETENCIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (p. 113). LOGOS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE , Tirane, Albania, 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Kamberaj, Valton; Kadriu, Arbana; Besimi, Nuhi From Dataset to Melody: Enhancing Music Composition with Computational Models. In Interdisciplinary Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 64-73. 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Ahma, Greta; Kadriu, Arbana Exploring the Impact of Gamification Strategies on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Education. 20th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE), IEEE, Tirana, Albania, Tirane, 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Ahma, Greta; Kadriu, Arbana Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Transform Education: Challenges and Opportunities. In SEE Review, Vol. 20, pp. 31-49. 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Ahma, Greta; Kadriu, Arbana Personalized Learning in the Age of AI: Adaptive Strategies for Enhancing Student Engagement and Outcomes. In Proceedings of CSIT® 2025, p. 180-195. UAMD, Albania, Durrës, 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Rista, Amarildo , A. A Fully Automated Pipeline for Sentence-Aligned ASR Dataset Construction in Low-Resource Languages Using Fuzzy Matching. In Proceedings of CSIT® 2025, p. 39-57. UAMD, Albania, Durres, 2025. (Link)
  
  
• Misini, Arta; Canhasi, Ercan; Kadriu, Arbana; Fetahi, Endrit Automatic authorship attribution in Albanian texts. In PLOS 19(10). 2024. (Link)
  
  
• Kamberaj, Valton; Kadriu, Arbana; Besimi, Nuhi Creating the Benchmark Dataset for Ethno-Fusion Music: From Piano Rolls to an Ensemble of Instruments. 2024 13th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO), Budva, Montenegro., 2024. (Link)
  
  
• Kamberaj, Valton; Kadriu, Arbana; Besimi, Nuhi Comparative Symbolic Analysis of the Ethno-Fusion Genre: Insights and Perspectives. In SEEU Review, 19(1), pp. 65-80. 2024. (Link)
  
  
• Misini, Arta ; Kadriu, Arbana; Canhasi, Ercan Authorship classification techniques: Bridging textual domains and languages. In International Journal on Information Technologies and Security. Vol.16 , No.1, pp. 27-38. 2024. (Link)
  
  
• Misini, Arta; Kadriu, Arbana; Canhasi, Ercan Albanian Authorship Attribution Model. In 2023 12th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) (pp. 1-5). IEEE, Budva, 2023. (Link)
  
  
• Mydyti, Hyrmet ; Kadriu, Arbana; Pejich-Bach, Mirjana Improve Decision-Making: Case Study of A Recommendation System Development. In Organizacija, 56(2), pp. 138-154. 2023. (Link)
  
  
• Kamberaj, Valton ; Kadriu, Arbana; Besimi, Nuhi Instruments Music Composition in Different Genres and Techniques Using AI: A Review. International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, Tetove, 2023. (Link)
  
  
• Misini, Arta ; Kadriu, Arbana; Canhasu, Ercan A3C: Albanian Authorship Attribution Corpus. In International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (pp. 755-763). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland., Tetove, 2023. (Link)
  
  
• Rista, Amarildo; Kadriu, Arbana A Model for Albanian Speech Recognition Using End-to-End Deep Learning Techniques. In Interdisciplinary Journal of Research and Development, pp. 1-10. 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika Research on VR/AR integration in education. MIPRO 2022, Opatija, Croatia, 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla The Who in VR/AR for Education: A Scoping Review from IEEE Publications. ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference - ENTRENOVA, Opatija, 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Misini, Arta; Kadriu, Arbana; Canhasi, Ercan A Survey on Authorship Analysis Tasks and Techniques. In SEEU Review, Volume 17 (2022) - Edition 2 (December 2022), pp. 153 - 167. 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Shehu, Visar; Salii, Shqipe; Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Zenuni, Xhemal Selected chapters in VR/AR. SEEU, Tetovo, 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Zenuni, Xhemal; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Shehu, Visar; Kadriu, Arbana; Salii, Shqipe Introduction to VR development with Unity. SEEU, Tetovo, 2022. (Link)
  
  
• Rista, Amarildo; Kadriu, Arbana; End-to-End Speech Recognition Model Based on Deep Learning for Albanian. In 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO). IEEE, Opatija, Croatia, 2021. (Link)
  
  
• Rista, Amarildo; Kadriu, Arbana; CASR: A Corpus for Albanian Speech Recognition. In 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO). IEEE, Opatija, Croatia, 2021. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Word Cloud Analytics of the Computer Science Research Publications’ Titles over the Past Half Century. MIPRO 2020, 2020. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Sahatqija, Kosovare; Using Bibliometric Analysis to Measure and Understand the Gender Gap in Published Computing Books: Gender Gap in Computer Science. In nternational Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) 13(1), pp. 31-44. IGI Global,. 2020. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi, Lejla; Abazi, Hyrije; Albanian Text Classification: Bag of Words Model and Word Analogies. In Business Systems Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2019, pp. 74-87. 2019. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi, Lejla; Abazi, Hyrije; Ramadani, Veland; Investigating Trends in Learning Programming using YouTube Tutorials . In International Journal of Learning and Change. 2019. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Building an annotated corpus for Albanian using bilingual projections and regular expressions. In International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, Vol.6 No.2, Inderscience Publishers, pp. 105 - 121. 2019. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Investigating Gender Gap in Computer Science Research Community. MIPRO 2019, Opatija, 2019. (Link)
  
  
• Sahatqija, Kosovare; Kadriu, Arbana; Exploring Gender Role in Co-authorship Networks for Computing Books: A case study in DBLP. ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference - ENTRENOVA, Rovinj, Croatia. 9 / 2019, Rovinj, 2019. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi, Lejla; Java: Hyrje në programimin e orientuar në objekte. Tetovo, 2018.
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Haliti, Nusret; A business perspective on internet of things. ENTRENOVA 2018, Split, Croatia, 2018. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Jajaga, Edmond; Abazi, Hyrije; LMS Solution: Evidence of Google Classroom Usage in Higher Education. In Business Systems Research, Vol. 9 No. 1, 2018, pp. 31-43. 2018. (Link)
  
  
• Haliti, Nusret; Kadriu, Arbana; Jusufi, Mensur; An approach for speed limit determination for vehicle tracking in case of GID ambiguity and lack of information in navigation maps. In International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, pp. 252-263. 2017. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Quantitative structured literature review of research on e-Learning. MIPRO 2017, Opatija, 2017. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi, Lejla; Abazi, Hyrije; Jajage, Edmond; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; A Google Classroom-based Learning Management System: Empirical Evidence from SEEU. ENTRENOVA , Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2017. (Link)
  
  
• Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi, Lejla; A comparison of algorithms for text classification of Albanian news articles. ENTRENOVA , Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2017. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Self learning trends in the field of introductory programming. MIPRO 2018, Opatija, Croatia, 2017. (Link)
  
  
• Abazi, Lejla; Kadriu, Arbana; Apostolova, Marika; Migration from in-House LMS to Google Classroom: Case of SEEU. MIPRO 2016, Opatija, 2016. (Link)
  
  

Work Experience

• May 2019 - Present : Full Professor
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Master Courses - "Social Network Analysis", "Object Oriented Design and Programming", "Web Engineering", "Information Retrieval", "Logic & Functional Programming", "Research Methodologies"; PhD Course - "Advanced topics in the field of ICT"
  
  
• Sep 2021 - Feb 2023: Dean, Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies
  South East European University
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  
  
• Mar 2021 - Aug 2021: Acting Dean, Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies
  South East European University
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  
  
• Nov 2013 - May 2019: Assoc. Prof.
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Master Courses - "Laboratory Course in Database Programming", "Object Oriented Design and Programming", "E-learning 2.0 - Theory and Practice", "Information Retrieval"
  
  
• Nov 2008 - Nov 2013: Assist. Prof.
  SEEU, Tetove, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Master Courses - "Information Retrieval", "Natural Language Processing","Software Project and Management","Software Analysis and Design","Programming Paradigms","Strategic IT Management","Social and Information Network Analysis","Distributed Systems"
  
  
• 2002 - 2008: Assistant
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Bachelor Courses - "Programming 1", "Programming 2", "Multimedia Systems"
  
  
• 2004 - 2005: Director of Computer Center
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  
  
• 2002 - 2004: Deputy Director of Computer Center
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  
  
• 2001 - 2003: IT Lecturer
  SEEU, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  
  
• 1998 - 2001: Lecturer
  State University of Tetova, Tetove, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Bachelor Courses - "Numerical analysis","Programming Languages"
  
  
• Apr 1998 - Nov 1998: Programmer
  EVT WIEN Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Business