Our academic staff

Dr Vahid Abolghasemi

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Signal processing; Image processing; Compressive sensing; Inverse problems and sparse recovery; Dictionary learning; Biomedical signal and image processing; Machine learning and pattern recognition; Computer Vision

Dr Zulfiqar Ali

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Adaptive and Autonomic Systems; Digital Speech Processing; Machine Learning Applied to Biomedical Signals; Privacy Protection; Real-time Predictive Analytics; Audio Forensics/Authentication; Data Analytics

Dr Mays Al-Naday

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Information-Centric Networks; Context-aware Communications; Cyber Security; Internet of Things; Network Function Virtualisation; Software-Defined Networks; Mobile Edge Computing; Fog Computing; Resource management and QoS in ICN; Serverless Computing

Dr Renato Amorim

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Automatic feature weighting in clustering of large data sets; Unsupervised feature selection; Machine Learning

Dr Javier Andreu-Perez

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning; Reasoning and Modeling Systems in Diagnosis and Prognosis; Health Informatics; Computational Intelligence applied to Brain Sciences; Neuroergonomics and Neuromarketing; Computer Vision and Machine Perception; Industrial Informatics; Deep Learning Architectures

Dr Hossein Anisi

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Internet of Things; Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks; Sensor Networks Applications; Green and Energy-efficient Data Communication; Mobile Ad hoc Networks; Wireless Heterogeneous Networks; Opportunistic Networks; Wireless Body Area Networks; Intelligent Transportation Systems

Dr Lina Barakat

Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Analytics and Data Science), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Decision making under uncertainty; Service-oriented systems; Optimisation algorithms; Trust and reputation mechanisms; Incentive engineering; Machine learning; Multi-agent Systems; Provenance of data; Semantic modelling

Dr Michael Barros

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Molecular Communications Communications for Unconventional Medical Devices; Biocomputing using Living Cells for Novel Precise Medicine Technology; In-vivo Networking for Biomedical Distributed Interfaces; Wireless Communications for Implantable Nano Devices; Exosomes intra-body communications for targeted drug delivery

Dr Richard Bartle

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Virtual worlds (game worlds, social worlds) all aspects of these; Computer Game design; Computer Games design as an art form; Computer Games and society, especially governance, the law and human rights

Dr Katerina Bourazeri

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Active Consumer Participation in SmartGrids; Avatar-Based Games for Mental Health; Mobile Applications for Helping People with Down's Syndrome; The Effectiveness of Exercise in Parkinson's Disease

Dr Eirina Bourtsoulatze

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Jon Chamberlain

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Human language through Natural Language processing, in particular for social media discourse; Problem solving with collective intelligence and distributed human tasking (crowdsourcing/human computation); Citizen science through games, gamification and games-with-a-purpose; Measuring human cognition and experience using empirical methods, UX/UI techniques and surveys; Computer vision in 3D modelled environments; Labelling and aggregation of metadata in large-scale multimedia corpora; Interactive information retrieval and data visualisation

Dr Anirban Chowdhury

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer Interfaces; Assistive Technology; Neurorehabilitation; Human-robot Co-operation; Autonomous Mobile Robots

Dr Caterina Cinel

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Cognitive enhancement; Brain Computer Interfaces; Multisensory perception; Neuroergonomics; Decision making; Memory enhancement; Attention tracking; Cognitive psychology and neurosciences

Professor Luca Citi

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: stochastic models of neural and cardiovascular signals using history-dependent point processes; machine learning applied to biomedical signals; statistical learning theory; big data analytics; invasive neural interfaces; non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)

Dr Adrian Clark

Reader, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computer vision; virtual and augmented reality; genetic programming; remote sensing; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs)

Dr Ian Daly

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer interfacing; Machine learning; Signal processing; Functional neural connectivity; EEG; fNIRS; fMRI; Motor control; Motor rehabilitation; Brain stimulation

Dr Vito De Feo

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Faiyaz Doctor

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computational Intelligence; Fuzzy Systems; Ambient Intelligence Systems; Intelligent Agents; Data Driven Computational Simulation Modelling; Intelligent Immersive Environments

Dr Shoaib Ehsan

Reader, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computer Vision; Robotics; Embedded Systems; Artificial Intelligence

Dr Michael Fairbank

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Neural Networks; Adaptive Dynamic Programming + Reinforcement Learning; Optimisation; Control Theory; Financial Forecasting; AI in games

Professor Maria Fasli

Executive Dean (Science and Health) - Professor (R), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Multi-agent systems and autonomous adaptive systems; Data exploration analysing and modelling complex data Big data analysis and modelling of structured and unstructured data; Machine learning modelling opponents learning behaviours from data; Reasoning and analytics over multiple streams of data Internet of Things (IoT) reasoning and analytics; Individual and collective user profiles profile adaptation contextualised profiles; Recommender systems collaborative filtering reputation systems; complex systems modelling dynamics of financial systems and markets; Market mechanisms negotiation protocols strategic interaction supply chain management; Semantic matching resource search cloud computing resource allocation; Trust in agent societies trust mechanisms trust in decision making; Formal theories of agents and multi-agent systems BDI agents; Cognitive agents knowledge and belief self-reference; Software engineering methodologies for agents and multi-agent systems; Social dynamics regulation of agent societies roles and power institutions; Self-organisation team formation; Serious games for education and learning collaborative learning

Professor John Gan

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Machine learning and artificial intelligence; Computer vision and robotics; Brain-computer interfaces; Multimodal human-machine interaction; Intelligent data and text mining; Signal processing; Pattern recognition; (See also staff research interests by category)

Dr Alba Garcia Seco De Herrera

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computational neuroscience

Professor Dongbing Gu

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Machine Learning; Cooperative Control; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Robotics; SLAM; Autonomous Systems; Navigation, Control and Guidance

Professor Hani Hagras

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computational Intelligence (Fuzzy Logic,Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation ); Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Dr Sebastian Halder

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-Computer Interfaces; Consciousness; Pain

Dr Ramy Hammady

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Immersive Technology (XR, AR, VR, MR); Gamification & Serious Gaming; Game Design; Interactive Design UI/UX

Dr Jianhua He

Reader, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Professor Huosheng Hu

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Intelligent Systems and Autonomous Mobile Robots; Networked robots and network enable systems/devices; Smart sensors, actuators and Mechatronics; Sensor integration and Data fusion algorithms; Tele-rehabilitation, tele-care, tele-health, Intelligent wheelchairs; Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Robotics; Pervasive computing, mobile computing, eLearning; Distributed computer architecture and Parallel processing; AI and Robotics

Dr Liang Hu

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Safe Autonomy; Learning for Dynamics and Control; Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems

Dr Delaram Jarchi

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Ali Kafash Hoshiar

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Soft Robotics; Swarm micro/nanorobotics; Mechatronics Systems for Small Scale Robotics

Dr Michael Kampouridis

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Applications of machine learning to finance; Financial forecasting & algorithmic trading; Weather derivatives; Evolutionary algorithms

Dr Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Algorithmic Game Theory; Algorithmic Mechanism Design; Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Reinforcement Learning

Dr Sefki Kolozali

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Internet of Things; Machine Learning; Semantic Web; Signal Processing; Time Series Analysis; Internet of Things in Healthcare

Dr Maria Kyropoulou

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Algorithmic Game Theory; Algorithmic Mechanism Design; Blockchain; Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Dr Junhua LI

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Developing novel algorithms for classification and recognition; Detecting brain diseases based on neuroimaging data; Developing systems of monitoring human health); Computational Neuroscience (Understanding mechanisms of the brain pertaining to brain diseases, ageing, and mental states); Brain Health and Signal Processing (Providing insights into the brain health based on signals; Techniques for keeping the brain healthy and augmenting the brain capacity)

Dr Zilong Liu

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Error Correcting Codes (e.g., LDPC, Polar, Turbo, RS/BCH); Signal Design (e.g., sequences/codebooks/waveforms) for Wireless Communications; Bayesian Inference & Iterative Receiver Design; Machine Learning for Communication Systems; Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) for 5G and Beyond; Hardware Prototyping/Implementation of Wireless Communication Systems; Code-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for Massive Connectivity; Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM); Research Allocation in Wireless Networks; Compressed Sensing for Communications; V2X Communications and Networks; DNA Coded Storage; ASIC Design of Communication and Signal Processing Algorithms; FMCW automotive radar; LoRa/LPWAN communications; Wireless postioning/localization

Dr Yunfei Long

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Developing novel Natural Language Processing and Explainable AI for modelling healthcare data; Leveraging Lexical Semantics in Affective Analysis (and other NLP applications); NLP application in media, legal, and crime studies

Dr Cunjin Luo

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Medical Informatics; Biomedical Signal Processing; AI for Healthcare; Cyber Security for Healthcare; Digital Health; Computing in Cardiology; Biomedical Engineering

Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-Computer interfaces; machine learning applied to biomedical signals; Event-Related Potentials (ERPs); Memory; Decision-making; Algorithmic fairness; Neural engineering

Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability; Advanced computer architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; Application of AI for real world problems and robot control; Cybersecurity

Dr Themistoklis Melissourgos

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Professor Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Microwave components including antennas, filters and amplifiers; numeric techniques in electromagnetic field problems; nondestructive evaluation of materials by electromagnetic techniques

Dr Vishwanathan Mohan

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Cognitive Robotics; Computational Neuroscience; Industrial Manufacturing

Professor Haris Mouratidis

Professor (R) and Director of IADS, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering; Cybersecurity risk prediction and management; Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence; Privacy by Design; Data Security and Privacy; Internet of Things (IoT), 5G/6G and Cloud Computing Security

Professor Leila Musavian

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: URLLC Use case; 6G Communications; Massive MIMO; Physical Layer Network Coding; Machine Learning for Communication; 5G/Beyond 5G

Dr Serafeim Perdikis

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-Computer Interface; Machine Learning; Learning; Translational applications of BCI

Dr Haris Pervaiz

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Professor Riccardo Poli

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Programming; Brain Computer Interfaces; Particle swarms; Schema Theory; Neural Nets; Machine Vision, Image and Signal Processing; Artificial Intelligence

Dr Annalivia Polselli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (IADS), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Haider Raza

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Big Data and Analytics; Brain-Computer Interface; Deep Learning; Transfer Learning; Non-Stationary Learning and Domain Adaptation; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXplainable AI (XAI); EEG and MEG Signal Processing; AI in Decision Making for Healthcare

Professor Martin Reed

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Information Centric Networking; Network security; quality of Service mechanisms for Internet protocol networks; management and control of optical and core networks; multimedia Internet applications

Dr David Richerby

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Algorithms; Computational complexity theory; Constraint satisfaction problems; Stochastic processes

Dr Sangeet Saha

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Spyros Samothrakis

Senior Lecturer (R) and Deputy Director of IADS, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Reinforcement Learning; Machine Learning; Neural Networks; Role Playing Games

Dr Michael Sanderson

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Development of programs from proofs of their specifications; Concurrency

Professor Reinhold Scherer

Head of Department - Professor (R), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-Computer Interfaces; Statistical and adaptive signal processing; Mobile brain and body imaging; Technology-mediated rehabilitation; Assistive technology

Professor Francisco Sepulveda

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer interfaces; Neural prostheses and neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Bioelectronics; Rehabilitation engineering; Myoelectric operation of artificial limbs and robotic devices; Biomedical signal analysis; Computational neuroscience; Sensori-motor neurophysiology; Affective computing; Intelligent systems, both artificial and natural; Mathematical modelling of muscle and nerve

Dr Ravi Shekhar

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Multi-model NLP; Conversation AI; Social Media Analysis; Cross-Lingual Representation; Social Media Analysis; Assessing and mitigating online harms; NLP for social media; Abusive language detection

Dr Amit Singh

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Secure, Reliable, Low Power and High Performance Embedded Systems; Multi-/Many-core systems; Design Space Exploration; Run-time mapping and scheduling; HPC Data centers and Cloud Computing; Embedded AI

Dr Manoj Thakur

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Professor Nikolaos Thomos

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Network coding; Multimedia communications; Information-centric networks; Joint source and channel coding; Semantic Communications; Machine learning for communications; Caching Networks; Multimedia Signal Processing

Dr Morteza Varasteh

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Information Theory; Artificial Intelligence; Privacy

Dr Alexandros Voudouris

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Algorithmic Game Theory; Computational Social Choice; Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Algorithmic Mechanism Design

Professor Stuart Walker

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: High-capacity optical network systems; semiconductor laser characteristics; broadband optical receiver design; optical transmission; local access architectures based on arrayed waveguide gratings; video compression

Dr John Woods

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Image processing; model-based coding and 3-D modelling; IP and ATM networks; telecommunications principles; robotics and autonomous vehicles; sensor networks and robotic aviation

Dr Yun Wu

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Professor Kun Yang

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Wireless networks and communications, AI for Communications, UAV-enabled Wireless Communications; mobile edge computing, edge intelligence; data and energy integrated communication networks (DEIN)

Dr Juntao Yu

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Deep Learning for NLP; Information Extraction; Coreference Resolution; Conversational AI; Low Resource Learning

Dr Nick Zakhleniuk

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Xiaojun Zhai

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: System-on-Chip (SoC) design; Embedded processor architectures; Embedded systems; Hardware acceleration

Dr Xinruo Zhang

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Radio Resource Management; Machine Learning for Communications; Next Generation Wireless Networks

Mohsin Ali

Senior Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Issam Boukhennoufa

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Christine Clark

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Saideh Ferdowsi

Senior Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Cong Gao

Senior Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Ragini Gokhale

Senior Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Samuel Isuwa

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Kitty Kioskli

Research Fellow, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: cybersecurity; digital therapeutics; psychosocial and human factors; behaviour change; e-health; personalised behavioural medicine; long-term conditions; cognitive and psychological assessment and interventions

Geza Koczian

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Christopher Miles

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Priscila Montoya Beltran

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Ricardo Vladimir Ortega Ramirez

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Dr Mike Parker

Senior Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Ludovico Poli

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Joshua Pooley

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Maria Waheed

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Fuli Wang

Research Officer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Wei Wang

Research Fellow, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Somdip Dey

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Ask me about: Embedded Machine Learning; Embedded AI; On-Device AI; Computer Vision; Run-time Management of Computing Resources; Object Oriented Programming Languages (C#, Java); Information Security and Privacy; Food waste and Hunger Research interests: Embedded Machine Learning to Improve Sustainability

Dr Michael Walton

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Ask me about: PCB Layout/Design; RF; Embeded Connectivity; Embedded Radio Links; Microstrip Antennas

Fiona Wattam

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)