School of Engineering (ENG)

Profile

Academic Qualifications

PhD, Computer Science  (Economics of Distributed Web Search: A Machine Learning Approach)

MSc, Computer Science

Diploma, Computer Engineering (5-year degree, Russia)

Postgraduate Certificate, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Professional Affiliations/ Memberships

Member of the IET, Fellow of the HEA

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests and experience cover a wide range of subjects including real-time and embedded systems, distributed systems and computer networks, web development and software engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Research Interests

My recent and past research interests include assisted living, machine learning, embedded systems, information management and retrieval, computational economics and game theory, multi-agent systems, and computer networks security.

PhD Supervision

Mohamed Al-Mosawi, “QoS Management for VSAT Networks in the Presence of Rain”

Sebastian Bersch, “Cognitive Computing for Machine Learning” (second supervisor)

Richie Sethi, “An Investigation into the Suitability of an Open Seamless Platform-Independent Telecare Framework for Commercial Deployment” (second supervisor)

Industry Experience 

I am actively involved in research and knowledge transfer (KTP) activities with industry. Current and past projects cover the areas of assisted living, audio/video switching and streaming, remote monitoring and control. I also carried out industrial consultancy projects in data management for very large-scale data storage systems and sensor characterisation for assisted living applications. I worked as a software engineer developing embedded data communication systems, and participated in European Commission funded industrial and academic project consortia.

Selected Publications

Over 40 refereed journal and conference publications. Please follow ‘My Web’ link for an up-to-date list.

Research Group

Dr Rinat Khusainov is a member of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research group.