Dr. Adly is currently the Scientific Advisor to the Director of the  Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), and Head of SIMAR “Serageldin Institute for Multi-disciplinary Advanced Research” at the BA. Dr. Adly is also a Professor of Computer and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. She has obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, UK, in 1995. She has served in several positions since 1988 locally and abroad. Until  February 2013, Dr. Adly served as Head of ICT sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) where she was responsible for the BA's overall ICT strategy, architecting its data policies and methodologies including the design of its institutional repository and digital library initiatives then she was appointed as First Deputy to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology until 2016.

 

She had many consultancy and leading roles concerning the design and implementation of information systems and digital libraries in several world-class institutions. She is also a member of ACM and IEEE as well as other scientific organizations. She is author/co-author of more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific conferences in the field of computer science and engineering.