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Atta Badii is the Professor of Secure Pervasive Technologies in the Computer Science Department at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø.   He leads  research in the fields of AI and Data Science.  He has established a track record of key contributions to around 50 UK and European projects, including over 35 large-scale collaborative national and international research programmes many of which he has initiated and led as the Technical Coordinator.

Atta has pioneered several paradigms in user-centred assistive-ambient technologies, in particular, personalised, context-aware and privacy-preserving intelligent systems; has published over 120 reviewed articles and several books and book chapters.  He has served on the editorial and research steering boards as invited expert and as a Committee Member of IEEE (EMBS) BioRobotics; as the coordinator and chair of the "VideoSense": European Privacy-Preserving Video-Analytics Network of Excellence and Expert Advisor on the large-scale EPSRC-funded Research Programme on Big Data and Human Rights. 

Specifically his research contributions in terms of both the resulting open-source platforms and publications have included the security-privacy-by-design of cyber-physical system-of-systems, e.g. "LinkSmart" context-aware secure, semantic middleware framework for network-centric embedded systems, "Companionable" and Assistive Robotics, medical tirage decision support,  model-driven software and automated AI & Software Engineering (Auto-ML, LLM), AI-enabled data synthesis and test pattern generation, data stream mining, rule generation and quantum computation.