Ai, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education

Professor Hamid Jahankhani has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, full and part time, and supervised and examined research students at the M.Phil., Ph.D. levels and Doctorate in Professional Studies (D.Prof.). Hamid's teaching has covered a broad range of computing modules in particular Information Security Management, Information Security Risk and Audit, Digital Forensics, Systems Design & Development, Telecommunications and Networking and Computer Systems. Hamid's principal research area for a number of years has been in the field of information security management and digital forensics.

Dr Arshad Jamal is Dean and Director of Research and Education at Northumbria University London Campus with QAHE. He has substantial experience in academic leadership, strategic planning, people development, programme development, teaching and research. Arshad has wealth of industry and consultancy experience. He has also worked as Chief Technical Officer and led teams to deliver large IT projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Computing from Brunel University and is Internationally Recognised Academic. His teaching background covers a diverse range of subjects including Information Systems, Business and Data Analytics, Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, E-Business and Information Security. His research interest lies in Information Systems, Information Security, AI and Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, Technostress, Operations Management and E-Learning. He has published research in peer-reviewed journals and conferences as well as edited books and authored book chapters.

Dr Guy Brown is Dean of students who had designed, delivered and evaluated a range of higher education projects to embed the use of technology in all aspects of the student journey, including pre enrolment, on-boarding, educational analytics, technology-led personal tutoring, online and blended learning delivery and gamification.

Dr Eustathios Sainidis is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Northumbria University and Deputy and Director of the Northumbria University London Campus. He is Experienced Academic, has taught extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised and examined a number of doctoral candidates. Eustathios is Active Researcher in the subject of manufacturing strategy in SMEs and has a particular interest in the application of mixed methods in business and management research. He has published extensively in high-quality, peer-reviewed international journals and has also contributed chapters to a number of scholarly books and academic textbooks.

Dr Rose Fong is currently Deputy Associate Dean/Head of the Department of Computing at Northumbria University London/ QAHE. She was Programme Leader of M.Sc. Cyber Security Technology and B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Computing. She has been involved into thedesign and development of various IT and cyber security programmes/modules for Northumbria University London.

Prior to her current position, she was Senior Lecturer in Computing in Hong Kong. With over 25-year teaching experiences in a wide ranges of IT-related subjects, Rose took up different programme leaderships in various IT programmes such as creative and interactive media production, business analytics, information systems development and network administration at both subdegree and bachelor's degree level. Rose was also heavily involved in different student services such as scholarship at college level as Director of Student Services. She is Certified Personality Dimension(R) Level 1 Facilitator. She was Centre Manager of the Personal and Career Development Centre, Community College of City University, in 2012-14. She had conducted over 150 sessions to her students in career planning and personal development.

Her main research interests are user-centred design andtesting, information system, education technologies and human dimensions of cyber security. She is Full Member of Hong Kong Computer Society and Member of the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology. She is particularly interested in learning technologies and promoting the education technologies by organising conferences and reviewing related journals.

Usman J. Butt is Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons), master's in Network and Computer Systems Security and currently doing Ph.D. in Cyber Security. He is also Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Security Management Principles (CISMP), Certified ISO 27001 Practitioner, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP-Trained) and CompTIA Security+ (Trained). He is Active Researcher and has number of research publications in cyber security. He has also successfully delivered CyberFirst programme as Tutor in 2021.

Usman has worked as Computer Professional since 2003. During his career, he has worked in various roles such as Network Engineer, Systems Administrator and was responsible for secure network design and management in Windows/Unix environment through implementation of physical and logical controls. He was also part of the cyber governance team, responsible for risk management process to mitigate risks against the organisation key assets and its compliance with relevant legal and regulatory requirements.

Usman Butt is currently working as Associate Dean/Head of computing department at Northumbria University London campus. He provides strategic leadership and vision to departmental day-to-day operations and actively involved in design and development of various cyber security programmes/modules for Northumbria University. He is also External Examiner to different UK universities.

哈米德·賈漢卡尼教授曾在本科及研究生階段教授全職及兼職課程，並指導及評審碩士及博士研究生以及專業研究博士（D.Prof.）。哈米德的教學涵蓋了廣泛的計算機模組，特別是資訊安全管理、資訊安全風險與審計、數位取證、系統設計與開發、電信與網路以及計算機系統。哈米德多年的主要研究領域為資訊安全管理和數位取證。

阿爾沙德·賈馬爾博士是倫敦北安普頓大學校區的院長及研究與教育主任，並與QAHE合作。他在學術領導、戰略規劃、人才發展、課程開發、教學和研究方面擁有豐富的經驗。阿爾沙德擁有豐富的行業和顧問經驗，曾擔任首席技術官，並領導團隊交付大型IT項目。他擁有布魯內爾大學的資訊系統與計算博士學位，並被國際認可為學者。他的教學背景涵蓋多樣的主題，包括資訊系統、商業與數據分析、大數據、人工智慧、機器學習、運營與供應鏈管理、戰略管理、戰略領導、電子商務和資訊安全。他的研究興趣包括資訊系統、資訊安全、人工智慧和數據分析、知識管理、技術壓力、運營管理和電子學習。他在同行評審的期刊和會議上發表了研究成果，並編輯了多本書籍及撰寫書章。

蓋·布朗博士是學生院長，設計、實施和評估了一系列高等教育項目，以在學生旅程的各個方面嵌入技術的使用，包括入學前、入學指導、教育分析、技術主導的個人輔導、線上和混合學習交付及遊戲化。

尤斯塔提奧斯·賽尼迪斯博士是北安普頓大學的戰略管理高級講師，並擔任倫敦校區的副院長及主任。他是一位經驗豐富的學者，曾在本科和研究生階段廣泛授課，並指導和評審多位博士候選人。尤斯塔提奧斯在中小企業的製造戰略方面積極研究，特別對於在商業和管理研究中應用混合方法感興趣。他在高品質的同行評審國際期刊上發表了大量文章，並為多本學術書籍和教科書貢獻了章節。

羅絲·方博士目前是北安普頓大學倫敦校區/QAHE的副院長/計算機系主任。她曾擔任碩士學位網路安全技術及榮譽學士學位應用計算的課程負責人。她參與了北安普頓大學倫敦校區各種IT和網路安全課程/模組的設計與開發。

在目前的職位之前，她曾在香港擔任計算機高級講師。擁有超過25年的教學經驗，涵蓋各種IT相關科目，羅絲在多個IT課程中擔任不同的課程負責人，如創意與互動媒體製作、商業分析、資訊系統開發和網路管理，涵蓋副學位和學士學位層級。羅絲還積極參與各種學生服務，如擔任學生服務主任的獎學金事務。她是認證的個性維度(R) Level 1 輔導員。她曾於2012至2014年擔任城市大學社區學院個人與職業發展中心的中心經理，並為學生舉辦了超過150場的職業規劃和個人發展課程。

她的主要研究興趣為以使用者為中心的設計和測試。