Teaching and supervision
I teach at postgraduate level at the University of Chester and lead the MSc programme I founded there. Most of my teaching is with international cohorts who arrive without a programming background.
Programme leadership
I am the founding Programme Leader of the MSc in Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation at Chester. I conceived the programme, designed it, took it through validation, launched it, and lead it.
Current modules
- CO7062 AI for Modern Use-CasesTaught as SE7048 from 2022 to 2025 and renamed in 2026. The cohort is MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering students with no prior programming experience, from India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Vietnam and elsewhere. The module is scaffolded from first-principles Python through to applied AI.
- CO7608 Blockchain Applications for EnterprisesDelivered as a flipped classroom with smart-contract exercises and group projects. Three peer-reviewed conference papers have come out of supervised group-project work on this module.
- SE7227 Applied Business Intelligence for Project Managers
- SE7200 Research DissertationModule Lead, with responsibility for the module as well as supervision.
- CO7057 MSc EEE ProjectProject supervision. Previously SE7045.
- Two-year Masters placement projectYear-long project supervision.
Approximate current annual teaching and supervision load: 350 hours. Also taught at Chester: SE7220 Management of Risk, 2022 to 2025, and SE6008 Control Systems Engineering.
Doctoral supervision
Completed
- Dr Shailendra TripathiMNIT Jaipur, awarded 2019. Supervisor. Design and performance analysis of CNFET-based current conveyors for analog signal processing.
- Dr Vipin Kumar SharmaAligarh Muslim University, awarded 2022. Supervisor, then co-supervisor. Electronic circuit design in technologies beyond CMOS.
- Dr Tao WenUniversity of Chester, completed 2025. Co-supervisor. Vibration-based structural health monitoring of composite plates with integrated sustainable micro-fibre transducers.
In progress
- Syed Sahil Abbas ZaidiTechnological University of the Shannon, Ireland. Supervisor. Abnormal event detection using drone-based aerial surveillance with edge intelligence and federated learning.
- Paul UnderhillUniversity of Chester. Co-supervisor. Firmware manipulation to obfuscate data recovery techniques.
- Adam WorrallUniversity of Chester. Co-supervisor. Poultry behaviour tracking with camera-radar fusion.
- Harry BaxterUniversity of Chester. Co-supervisor. Sleep monitoring using time-series models.
Masters supervision
97 Masters dissertations completed and 7 in progress, across MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MSc Project and Programme Management, MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation, and earlier M.Tech dissertations in India.
Recent dissertation topics cluster on AI agents and human-AI collaboration in project management, explainable AI in automated decision pipelines, governance of AI-driven decision systems in fintech, and large language models for portfolio oversight and compliance.
Also supervised: 32 undergraduate projects, 2 M.Tech projects, and 4 projects through the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. Undergraduate work I supervised produced FireNet, a fire and smoke detection model whose open dataset remains in active use, and an early Devanagari OCR project.
Curriculum development
- MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital InnovationFounded at the University of Chester: conceived, designed, validated, launched and led.
- Current Mode Analog Signal ProcessingNew postgraduate course introduced at Aligarh Muslim University in 2013.
- Analog Signal ProcessingNew undergraduate course proposed at Aligarh Muslim University in 2014.
Teaching qualifications and recognition
- 2024Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- 2024PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Chester
- RecentVice-Chancellor's Note of Appreciation for Teaching and Student Experience
- 2023Nominee, Best Teacher Award
Earlier teaching
From 2004 to 2022 at Aligarh Muslim University and MNIT Jaipur I taught postgraduate courses in electronic circuits, VLSI design, digital system design using HDL, IC processes and fabrication, digital and RF CMOS integrated circuits, and current-mode analog signal processing; undergraduate courses in VLSI technology, microelectronics, digital electronics, devices and circuits, signals and systems, computer programming, satellite communication, analog electronics, active network synthesis and MOS-LSI; and the associated laboratory courses.