Computing staff

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...

Dr Syed Attique Shah

Lecturer in Smart Computer Systems

Dr. Syed Attique Shah is working as a Lecturer in Smart Computer Systems at Birmingham City University. 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 Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He...

Dr Essa Shahra

Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr. Essa Shahra (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Lecturer in Computer Science. Dr. Essa Shahra is an experienced lecturer with over 12 years of expertise in academia and industry. He specializes in delivering postgraduate modules, mentoring undergraduate and master's students, and has held roles as an Assistant Lecturer and Research...

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...

Harjinder Singh

Senior Lecturer

Harjinder joined Birmingham City University (BCU) in 2000 and has 10 years experience in teaching and consultancy, prior to joining BCU Harjinder worked in Industry as a software developer mainly in C++. Previously employed as Software Development Engineer (FKI Engineering), Systems Analyst/Programmer (Alcan Plate Ltd.) and...

Sandeep Singh Chahil

Lecturer

Sandeep has a background in corporate video production, having spent several years producing content for commercial video projects. He’s experienced in all stages of this process, with a strong technical knowledge of hardware and software systems. 

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...

Becky Spittle

As a driven researcher and PhD student within the Digital Media Technology Lab (DMT Lab) at Birmingham City University, Becky is committed to presenting high-quality, impactful work. Her research is focused on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), most notably how input methods can be best designed and employed for Extended...

Kira Summers

Programme Leader, Lecturer

Akira Summers has been working in software and technological development since the year 2000. Starting off in web development and interactive media, she has held many development roles and spent several years working as an embedded game programmer, multimedia developer and learning technologist.   She now works...