Dr. Amir Hussain’s Teaching Interests & Administrative/Management Experience

• Biologically Inspired Computing (2000-date)
• Artificial Intelligence (2001-date)
• Decision Support Systems (2006-onwards)
• Adaptive & Statistical Signal Processing (1999-2002)
• Digital Communications & Data Networking (1999-2001)
• Control Theory & Applications (1993-95)
• Databases: Theory & Applications (1999-present)
• Multi-media (Audio & Graphics) (2002-present)
• Software Development (using C/C++) (1997-98)
• Software Engineering (2005-6)

Teaching Accreditation:

Dr. Hussain is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy - formerly the UK Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE) - which is the UK Government's only recognized teaching qualification for academics in higher education (2002-date)

Teaching Evaluation:

Dr. Hussain consistently obtains very high scores (amongst the best in the Dept.) collated from student feedback questionnaires, for every course unit that he teaches (1998-date). He believes in an interactive, self-reflective and research-led approach to teaching and learning.

ADMINISTRATIVE  DUTIES:

Director for the University of Stirling’s Muscat College Franchise Programme, Oman (2007-present)

Departmental Co-ordinator for the Muscat Franchise Programme (2004-present)

Chair of the IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Chapter (2005-present)

Member of the Department's Research Committee at Stirling University (2000-date)

Member of the Scientific Panel of the UK Government (SHEFC) funded (~EUR 1 million) Institute of Neuronal Computational Intelligence & Technology (INCITE), which is a new technology-transfer Institute based at Stirling, Paisley and Edinburgh Universities (2002-date).

Member of the University of Dundee's Post-Graduate Research Monitoring Committee (1999-2000)