Meet our Computer Science Academics

Our academics are highly qualified and are based in Dubai to deliver our quality degree programmes and support our exceptional student body.

Deputy Head of School

Dr Kashif Rajpoot

Dr Kashif Rajpoot

Deputy Head of School of Computer Science Dubai
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dubai Campus

Kashif Rajpoot is Deputy Head of School of Computer Science (for Dubai) and an Associate Professor of Computer Science.

His research focuses on developing solutions for problems in medical image analysis, cardiac electrophysiology, computational pathology, artificial intelligence, and data science. He has published over 60 research papers in leading journals and conferences of his domain.

Email
k.m.rajpoot@bham.ac.uk

Head of Subject Group

Dr Mian M. Hamayun

Dr Mian M. Hamayun

Head of Subject Group - Computer Science (Dubai)
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dubai Campus

Mian M. Hamayun is Associate Professor and Head of Programmes at University of Birmingham Dubai campus. He is interested in Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) and Simulation of MPSoC Systems, Performance Estimation, Binary Translation and topics related to Cloud Computing (Virtualization, GPGPU Computing, Internet of Things / Vehicles). He has published a number of research articles in ...

Email
m.m.hamayun@bham.ac.uk

Academic Staff

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr Ruchit Agrawal is an Assistant Professor and Head of CS Outreach at the University of Birmingham Dubai. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Oxford, where he worked on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare. He received his PhD in Computer Science under the prestigious Marie-Curie scholarship from the Queen Mary University of London. Dr Agrawal is an ...

Email
r.r.agrawal@bham.ac.uk

Dr Panagiotis Andriotis

Dr Panagiotis Andriotis

Lecturer in Computer Science (Flying Faculty)

School of Computer Science

Dr Panagiotis Andriotis is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, and a GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GIAC GCFE, GIAC GASF). He carries out interdisciplinary research into Cyber Security, Human Factors, and Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. He teaches Computer Science, Cyber Security and Digital Forensics topics.

Dr Panagiotis Andriotis - personal page

Email
p.andriotis@bham.ac.uk

Dr Fawad Hussain

Dr Fawad Hussain

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr. Fawad Hussain is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, positioned at the Dubai campus. His research interests lie primarily in the domains of artificial intelligence and machine learning, particularly in subspace and multi-view learning and its applications in interdisciplinary research. 

Email
s.f.hussain@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ahmad Ibrahim

Dr Ahmad Ibrahim

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Computer Science Programme Director

Dubai Campus

Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim currently serves as an Assistant Professor (Computer Science) and Undergraduate Programme Director at the University of Birmingham - Dubai, UAE. His research interests include the Internet of Things, Quality of Service (QoS) prediction, Web services, and Cloud and Fog computing. With regards to teaching, Dr. Ibrahim is interested in Object-oriented programming, Full ...

Email
a.ibrahim@bham.ac.uk

Dr Muhammad Usman Ilyas

Dr Muhammad Usman Ilyas

Assistant Professor
PG Program Director

School of Computer Science

Dr. Muhammad Usman Ilyas is currently serving as Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at the University of Birmingham - Dubai, UAE. Prior to that he was serving as Associate Professor (Computer and Network Engineering) at the College of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2016-2022.

Prior to that he was ...

Email
m.ilyas@bham.ac.uk

Dr Hamid Mukhtar

Dr Hamid Mukhtar

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Hamid Mukhtar is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham Dubai campus.

His research interests include deep learning, natural language processing, health informatics, and human behaviour modelling in pervasive environments.

Telephone
+97144280641
Email
h.mukhtar@bham.ac.uk

Dr Niloofer Shanavas

Dr Niloofer Shanavas

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Niloofer Shanavas is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham (Dubai campus). Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, text mining, natural language processing and semantic computing. She has published several research papers in leading conferences and journals.

‪Niloofer Shanavas - ‪Google Scholar page

Email
n.shanavas@bham.ac.uk

Dr Akila Subasinghe

Dr Akila Subasinghe

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr Akila Subasinghe is an Assistant Professor attached to the school of Computer Science. His research interest is in the application of Deep learning techniques for solving practical challenges in the fields of biomedical engineering, security surveillance, disaster management and unmanned ariel vehicle (UAV) navigation.

Akila Subasinghe- ‪Google Scholar page

Email
a.m.subasinghe@bham.ac.uk

Dr Abdul Wahid

Dr Abdul Wahid

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr. Abdul Wahid is Assistant Professor in the school of Computer Science. His research interest include but are not limited to IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Underwater Sensor Networks, Software Defined Networks, Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks, application of Machine Learning in networking.

Abdul Wahid - ‪Google Scholar page

 

Email
a.wahid@bham.ac.uk

Dr Anis Zarrad

Dr Anis Zarrad

Associate Professor in Computer Science

Dubai Campus

Dr. Anis Zarrad is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, Dubai. He holds a BSc and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, as well as an MSc in Computer Science from Concordia University. Dr. Zarrad's research primarily revolves around mobile Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) and Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE). ...

Email
a.zarrad@bham.ac.uk