Computing staff directory
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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, prior to joining BCU Harjinder worked in Industry as a software developer mainly in C++. Previously employed as Software Development...
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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.
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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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Becky Spittle
School of Computing and Digital Technology - CDT
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...
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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...
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Dr Quanbin Sun
Senior Lecturer
Quanbin Sun (QS)’s research expertise is in machine learning, modelling and simulation, data management, and data analytics. Currently, he is working with UK Network Rail and its partners on visualising railway bridges for engineer inspection and automatically detecting bridge defects (the preliminary research and development...
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Dr Edlira Vakaj
Associate Professor in Neuro-Symbolic AI
Dr Edlira Vakaj is an Associate Professor of Neuro-Symbolic AI, Academic Lead for Research, Innovation and Enterprise at the College of Computing and leading the Natural Language Processing at Birmingham City University, UK. She conducts research in multidisciplinary projects focusing on Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, AI,...
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Konstantinos Vlachos
Research Fellow in Open data Engineering
Konstantinos is currently working as Research Fellow in Open Data engineering in the School of Computing and Digital Technology. He has a Bachelor’s degree in “Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering” from the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly in Greece and a Master’s in “Advanced Computer...
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Dr Yonghao Wang
Associate Professor
Dr. Yonghao (Leo) Wang is an esteemed academic with over 20 years of experience in the fields of Networking and Cybersecurity, with a special focus on blockchain technology and decentralised communication systems. His expertise also extends to Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for multimedia, as well as Cloud and Edge...
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Dr Kurtis Weir
Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction
Dr Kurtis Weir is a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and situated at the Digital Media Technology (DMT) Lab. His research focuses are in HCI, Virtual and Augmented Reality (XR), Assistive Technologies, accessibility for disabled people, and design philosophies. Dr Weir completed his PhD in Computer Science at the...