Professional career

Abdul Aziz received the Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2013, and the Master’s degree in computer science from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2018. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Zaragoza, within the Advanced Information Systems Laboratory (IAAA) of the Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A).

He was an Early Stage Researcher (ESR 08, “Technical aspects for inclusiveness across user domains in data portals”) for the ODECO project, an Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020), between 2022 and 2025. He defended successfully his PhD titled “Promoting Inclusiveness in Open Government Data Portals through Feedback Mechanisms” on 19th December 2025. His research interests include open data, information retrieval and data portal domains.