Research staff

Dr Venkatesh Vijay

Associate Professor

Dr Venkatesh Chennam Vijay received his PhD in Engineering for extending Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) principles into engineering distance learning from Birmingham City University (BCU). His expertise involves Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), embedded systems...

Roger Wall

Senior Lecturer

Before joining the University in 2001, Roger worked for a water resource management consultancy specializing in IT solutions and GIS applications, and as a software engineer for a German consultancy firm. He has been involved in a number of European projects, including the IEE IEC-SME project related to energy efficiency...

Professor Wenyan Wu

Professor in Advanced System Engineering

Prof Wenyan Wu is a Professor in Advanced System Engineering in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University. She has extensive interdisciplinary research and teaching experience across Computing, Engineering and Technology. Her knowledge and expertise are across boundaries of...

Dr Hong Xiao

Senior Lecturer

Hong obtained his BEng in Industrial and Civil Buildings in 1985, and MSc in Construction Management in 1988 from Hunan University, China. He lectured there until 1998. He came to the UK in 1998 as an academic visitor sponsored by the Chinese Government, and then began his PhD study at the University of Wolverhampton. His PhD...