Computing staff
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Jay Patel
Senior Lecturer
Jay had been involved with the delivery of ERDF projects such as Regional Innovation Network, Media Vault and MarketMaker. Since the successful completion of these projects he has moved in the teaching. He currently delivers a variety of modules such as Audio Visual Technology, Moving Image Technology and Mathematics for Media....
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Dr Roy Priest
Associate Professor of Computing
Based in the College of Computing, Roy is College Academic Lead for Employability and Mobility. Prior to working in higher education, Roy was involved in various aspects of the music industry, as a professional musician and also working in artist management and legal and business affairs.
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Dr. Waqas Ur Rahman
Lecturer in Broadcast Engineering
Dr. Waqas ur Rahman is a Lecturer in Broadcast Engineering at Birmingham City University. Waqas has over a decade of experience in the field of Communications Engineering. He has the experience of working both in industry and academia. He teaches multiple Broadcast Engineering courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. He...
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Hifzur Rahman
Network Technologist
Hifzur graduated as a Network Engineer and joined Birmingham City University (formerly UCE) in 2002 to work in the Centre of Communication and Networks as a Technology Transfer Consultant, delivering enterprise system solutions to SMEs. Hifzur has over 10 years experience in Network Engineering and IT. He has skills and...
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Mathew Randall
Senior Lecturer
Dr Mathew Randall is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University in the UK, where he lectures in visual effects and computer graphics. He is a member of the Graphics and Vision Research group, specializing in real-time analysis and manipulation of motion captured performances and applications of virtual production...
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Dr Martyn Ratcliffe
Senior Lecturer
Martyn graduated with a physics degree and started his career at British Aerospace. After several changes of department and the completion of an M.Sc. in Digital Systems he settled in the software department, designing real-time software for weapon systems. After eight years Martyn left British Aerospace to take up a teaching...
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Dr Iain Rice
Professor of Industrial AI, Course Lead BSc Computer Science
Iain is a Professor of Industrial AI and has been awarded as a role model for knowledge exchange. He is a specialist in Machine Learning and Signal Processing with several years of experience applying AI models to a wide range of real-world problems. As course leader for the BSc Computer Science, with former positions of lead...
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Dr Hadeel Saadany
Lecturer in Data Science and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Dr Hadeel Saadany is a lecturer in Data Science and Natural Language Processing (NLP). She conducts research in multidisciplinary fields focusing on the intersecting areas of NLP, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in different domains. Her research projects are primarily focused on utilizing AI to solve real-life...
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Dr Faisal Saeed
Associate Professor
Faisal Saeed is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University. He leads the MSc Artificial Intelligence course and Research Summer School at the College. Previously, he worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department, Taibah University,...
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Parnia Samimi
Assistant Lecturer
Dr Parnia Samimi is a full-time Assistant Lecturer in Computer Science at Birmingham City University. She is currently the Module Lead of the Advanced Database module. She studied at National University of Malaysia (UKM), graduating with a Master of Information Technology in 2012. She went on to do her PhD research in Computer...