Our Staff
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Richard Hale
Course Leader and Senior Lecturer of Digital Forensics
Richard is the course leader and senior lecturer of Digital Forensics at Birmingham City University, having moved to academia from his previous role as a Senior Digital Forensic Investigator and Laboratory Manager at SYTECH Consultants. Richard first started working in the Digital Forensics field in 2008, having previously...
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Phillip Harris
Lecturer
Phillip has carried out a diverse range of duties within a 22-year career as a Royal Air Force Telecommunication Technician, primarily employed on the maintenance and commissioning of strategic and tactical satellite and HF communications systems. He was employed as a technical trainer within trade, both in the UK and...
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Dr Carlo Harvey
Associate Professor, Director of Future Games and Graphics
Dr Carlo Harvey is an Associate Professor in Computer Games Technology at Birmingham City University, in the School of Computing and Digital Technology. He teaches C++ for Games, Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. He is the course leader for BSc Computer Games Technology and the Director of...
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Dr Sara Hassan
Lecturer in Software Engineering
Sara is a full-time lecturer in software engineering. She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2019 from University of Birmingham, UK. She worked as a teaching assistant for Software Engineering 2015-2019 at the University of Birmingham, UK. Prior to that she got her MEng in Computer Science with Software Engineering from...
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Dr Ambreen Hussain
Research Fellow in Smart Sensing and Processing
Ambreen received her PhD degree funded by the European FP7 WatERP project from Staffordshire University in 2020. Her research was focused on sustainable semantic interoperability and semantic validation of sensor data. During her Masters by Research degree from Cranfield University, UK, in 2013, she worked on a project by...
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Dr Vahid Javidroozi
Senior Research Fellow in Smart City Systems Engineering
Dr. Vahid Javidroozi is a Senior Research Fellow, currently working on various research projects and bids, including a business process-centric framework for smart cities, so-called "FABS", developed during his PhD research, by applying a combination of systems engineering, systems thinking, and critical realism principles;...
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Professor Mark Josephs
Professor of Computer Science/Centre Lead
Professor Josephs has a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics from University College London and MSc and DPhil degrees in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. After spending a year as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Yorktown Heights in 1987, he returned to Oxford where he was appointed a member of the Faculty of...
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Professor Paul Kearney
Professor of Cybersecurity
Paul Kearney is part-time Professor of Cybersecurity in the Cyber-Physical Systems Department of the School of Computing and Digital Technology. Paul has had a long and varied career in research and development in industry, and has previously worked for British Aerospace (BAe), Sharp and British Telecom (BT). He has...
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Aliyu Lawal Aliyu
Postgraduate Research Student
Aliyu obtained his bachelor's degree (2006 - 2010) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria. His undergraduate project was on Frequency jammers, where he produced an electronic device capable of locking radio frequencies in the range of 30 – 120 MHz. Later, he joined the Cisco Academy in 2011...
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Dr Khaled Mahbub
Associate Professor in Software Engineering
Khaled started his academic career, in September 1999, as a Lecturer (US hierarchy) in Computer Science & Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he worked until March 2001. From May 2006 to July 2007, Khaled served as Research...