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Head of Department

Name Position Telephone Email
Professor Shuang-Hua Yang Head of Department +44 (0) 118 378 4835 shuang-hua.yang@reading.ac.uk

Administrative staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Tim Poulter
 Executive Administration Officer +44 (0) 118 378 5030 t.j.poulter@reading.ac.uk
Yousef Mahdi Executive Support Administrator +44 (0) 118 378 5954 y.mahdi@reading.ac.uk

Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Professor Atta Badii

Professor of Secure Pervasive Technologies, and Research Group Leader, Cyber-Physical and Embedded Data Intelligence

 +44 (0) 118 378 7842 atta.badii@reading.ac.uk

Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty

 Lecturer in Computer Science +44 (0) 118 378 6765

n.chakraborty@reading.ac.uk
Dr Xiaomin Chen

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Industry Advisory Board 

 +44 (0) 118 378 5780 xiaomin.chen@reading.ac.uk
Dr Ferran Espuny-Pujol Lecturer in Computer Science +44 (0) 118 378 6734

f.espuny-pujol@reading.ac.uk
Professor James Ferryman

Professor of Computational Vision,
Research Director, REF Coordinator, and Computational Vision Group Leader

 +44 (0) 118 378 6697 j.m.ferryman@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alan Guedes Lecturer in Computer Science, and PGR Programme Director +44 (0) 118 378 6598 a.guedes@reading.ac.uk
Professor Xia Hong Professor of Computer Science
 +44 (0) 118 378 8222 x.hong@reading.ac.uk
Dr Asad Hussain  Associate Lecturer in Computer Science  

asad.hussain@reading.ac.uk
Dr Udeni Jayasinghe  Associate Lecturer in Computer Science   udeni.jayasinghe@reading.ac.uk
Dr Todd Jones Lecturer in Computer Science
 +44 (0) 118 378 3187 t.r.jones@reading.ac.uk 
Dr Ka Man Lam Lecturer in Computer Science,
and PGT Programme Director		 +44 (0) 118 378 5957 carmen.lam@reading.ac.uk 
Dr Martin Lester

Lecturer in Computer Science, UG Programme Director, and Chair of SSPG  

 +44 (0) 118 378 7634 m.lester@reading.ac.uk
Dr Xiang Li Lecturer in Computer Science +44 (0) 118 378 6748 x.li7@reading.ac.uk
Professor Richard Mitchell Professor of Cybernetics, Assessment Lead, and School Director of Technology Enhanced Learning +44 (0) 118 378 6790 r.j.mitchell@reading.ac.uk
Dr Pat Parslow Lecturer in Computer Science,
and Academic Tutor Coordinator		 +44 (0) 118 378 8613 p.parslow@reading.ac.uk
Dr Luis Patino Lecturer in Computer Science, and UG Student FYP Coordinator  +44 (0) 118 378 7641 j.l.patinovilchis@reading.ac.uk
Dr Zahra Pooranian Lecturer in Computer Science +44 (0) 118 378 5791 z.pooranian@reading.ac.uk
Dr Muhammad Shahzad

Lecturer in Computer Science,
and Admissions Tutor

 +44 (0) 118 378 5959 m.shahzad2@reading.ac.uk
Dr Nisha Singh Lecturer in Computer science   n.singh@reading.ac.uk

Dr Lily Sun

 Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning +44 (0) 118 378 8604 lily.sun@reading.ac.uk
Dr Hong Wei Associate Professor of Computer Science, UG Programme Director (NUIST), and Internationalisation and Study Abroad Coordinator +44 (0) 118 378 8608 h.wei@reading.ac.uk
Dr Frederick Stahl Visiting Member of Academic Staff   f.t.stahl@reading.ac.uk

Visiting Fellow

Name Position Email
Dr William Flannery Visiting Fellow w.flannery@reading.ac.uk

Affiliated academics

Name Position Email
Shirley Williams Professor Emerita, National Teaching Fellow shirley.williams@reading.ac.uk

Research staff

Name Position Email
Dr Jonathan Boyle Postdoctoral Research Assistant j.n.boyle@reading.ac.uk
Dr Lulu Chen
 Postdoctoral Research Assistant l.chen@reading.ac.uk
Dr Thanet Markchom Postdoctoral Research Assistant thanet.markchom@reading.ac.uk

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