Our Staff
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Helen Rutter
Lecturer in IT and Constitutional Law
Helen is a specialist lecturer in IT and Constitutional Law. She holds an LLB (Hons) and is a qualified non-practising barrister. She was called to the Bar in 2004. She joined Birmingham City University in 2010 as a visiting lecturer to teach the English Legal System to Computer Forensics students, and Legal Skills to Law...
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Faisal Saeed
Senior Lecturer
Faisal Saeed is a Senior Lecturer at Computer Data Science Department, School of Computing and Digital Technology, at Birmingham City University. Previously, he worked as Associate Professor at Taibah University, KSA from 2017-2021 and as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing,...
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Xavier Schmoor
Research Assistant in Open Data Engineering
Xavier Schmoor is a member of the Big Data Corridor project team . He is responsible for Health and Social Care developments within the team. After graduating from university in statistics and completing a master’s degree in computer science for e-health in France, Xavier studied data science in Spain and joined the Big...
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Jagjit Sehra
Programme Leader/Lecturer
Electronics Engineer at Diktron Limited This role involved commissioning, repairing and development of distress alarms which were used by the UK fire brigade. A wide range of skills were gained including: Fault finding out to component level using schematic diagrams. Using microcontrollers to develop intelligent alarm....
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Shahid Shabbir
Senior Lecturer
Shahid is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Forensics. Shahid is trained, certified and highly proficient in the use of professional digital forensics tools including EnCase, FTK and XRY, in addition to a range of professional data recovery and diagnostics technologies. His primary specialist areas include Digital Forensics, Data...
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Mak Sharma
Professor in Computer Science Education. Centre Lead, Cloud Computing.
Mak has an international reputation for his extensive work on the use of Vendor Resources and embedding these into various qualifications. He has worked to engage with 10 of the largest IT companies including Cisco, Microsoft, SAS and Oracle to provide a rich set of problem-based learning throughout computing, communications...
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Harjinder Singh
Senior Lecturer
Harjinder is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Digital Technology. He joined Birmingham City University (BCU) in 2000 and has 10 years experience in teaching and consultancy, proir to joining BCU Harjinder worked in Industry as a software developer mainly in C++. Previously employed as Software Development...
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Richard Smith
Senior Lecturer
Senior lecturer delivering the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) Security curriculum, IT Essentials (CompTIA A+), EMC, VMware and Citrix which provide career oriented coverage of introductory and advanced networking skills, whilst also providing opportunities for hands-on...
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Professor Peter Michael Sommer
Professor
Peter Sommer combines academic and public policy work with commercial cyber security consultancy, with a strong bias towards legal issues. He has acted as an expert in many important criminal and civil court proceedings where digital evidence has been an issue. He is part-time Professor of Digital Forensics at Birmingham City...
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Dr Roger Tait
Senior Lecturer in Distributed Computing
Dr Roger Tait is an experienced software engineer with more than 15 years of service in academic research environments. He completed his PhD, in the field of Parallel Architectures, in 2007 at Nottingham Trent University. After graduating he joined the Centre of Innovation and Technology Exploitation at Nottingham Trent...