Zainatul Shima binti Abdullah obtained her BSc (Hon) from Clarkson University, USA, MSc from University Putra Malaysia and Ph.D from Curtin University, Australia. Prior to joining the IIUM, she worked as an application engineer at PERNEC Corporation Berhad, as the Network Management System Project Manager at TIME Quantum Technology; and as the education consultant focusing on Oracle Technologies at Oracle Corporation Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
She obtained her Ph.D in 2012 with her thesis "Hospital Information System Implementation Framework: Critical Success Factors for Malaysian Public Hospitals". Since then, her publications focus on hospital and health systems, health information seeking behaviour, Data Mining, Enterprise Information Architecture, Big Data and IT in Agriculture.
Presently, she is teaching at the Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT), IIUM where she teaches ICT related courses, database courses, data mining and data management course. She is also assisting the Director of Information Technology Division (ITD), IIUM in managing the Collaborative and Academic Application Services Section. Her main task at ITD is to ensure that all the IT projects are completed and delivered within the allowable timeframe.

• ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ Database Technology ~ Data Warehousing
• Economics, Business And Management ~ Economics, Business And Management ~ Management ~ Management Information System
• ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ ICT Policy and Social Impact ~ ICT Policies
• ICT ~ Information, Computer And Communications Technology (ICT) ~ ICT Policy and Social Impact ~ Social Impact

ADVANCED DATA MANAGEMENT	2018/2019
BIG DATA ACROSS VERTICALS AND DOMAINS	2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
DATA MANAGEMENT	2017/2018 2015/2016 2014/2015
DATA MINING	2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
DATABASE PROGRAMMING	2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2007/2008 2006/2007
DATABASE SYSTEM II	2013/2014
DATABASE SYSTEMS	2017/2018 2016/2017
FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1	2017/2018
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I	2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II	2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014
INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT	2022/2023 2021/2022 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	2015/2016 2006/2007
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM	2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2012/2013
PRACTICAL TRAINING	2006/2007
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES	2016/2017 2015/2016

Completed

2014 - 2017

Modelling Health Information Seeking Behaviour Framework for Palliative Patients and Carers

On-Going

Article

2019	Assessing Arabic language learning for deaf student: a study of using mobile immersion in Saudi Arabia. International Journal on Perceptive and Cognitive Computing (IJPCC), 5 (2) pp. 1-5
2019	IslamTAM: revising technology acceptance model from the Islamic perspective. International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technology, 7 (3) pp. 22-32
2017	Review of Malaysian Tenth Health Plan 2011-2015. Journal of Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences, 3 (2) pp. 289-294

Conference or Workshop Item

2018	Assessing Arabic language learning for deaf student: a study of using mobile immersion in Saudi Arabia. In: 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M),
2018	IslamTAM: revising technology acceptance model from the Islamic perspective. In: 6th International Conference on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology,
2018	Mining Web usage using FRS. In: 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M),
2015	Web usage mining: A review of recent works. In: 2014 the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2014),
2014	Enterprise information architecture of a Malaysian institute of higher learning management information system: an experience. In: Malaysian National Conference of Databases 2014 (MaNCoD 2014),