Our Staff
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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
Senior Lecturer
Dr Rice 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 the head data scientist for The RAPID Project Iain created algorithms allowing for up to 12 hours advanced prediction of cardiac arrest in children. Iain has taught...
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Faisal Saeed
Senior Lecturer
Faisal Saeed is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Data Science Department at the School of Computing and Digital Technology, 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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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 at the School of Computing and Digital Technology. She studied at National University of Malaysia (UKM), graduating with a Master of Information Technology in...
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Dr. Sayan Sarcar
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Sayan Sarcar is a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and a Digital Media Technology Lab member. His research interests include HCI, User Experience and Usability, Ageing and Accessibility, and Computational Interaction. Before joining BCU, Dr. Sarcar worked as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Library,...
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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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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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Dr Syed Attique Shah
Lecturer in Smart Computer Systems
Dr. Syed Attique Shah is working as a Lecturer in Smart Computer Systems, at the School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, UK. Dr. Shah has more than 10 years of experience in teaching and research. Previously, he was working as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Data Systems Group, Institute of...
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Dr Essa Shahra
Assistant Lecturer
Essa Shahra was born in Ibb, Yemen. He received a Bachelor's degree from Taiz University in his home country, before progressing on to his Master's at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. Essa is now working towards his PhD in Internet of Things (IoT) here at Birmingham City University.