BIO

Jamil El-Imad's key research interests are in brain signal analysis, Virtual Reality (VR), Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) and Big Data.

Jamil and his team are developing systems for epilepsy prediction and other neurological disorders. He is also developing VR systems for democratising human experience and for the treatment of phobias. Jamil co-led a “Reality Substitution” team at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in developing a VR experience incorporating the user’s body into a substituted environment.

Jamil is also leading a team that are launching a biosensory cloud service offering Big Data management, storage and processing solutions. Jamil additionally promotes brain research through his work at The Brain Forum.

As a former software engineer developing, for decades, code on IBM systems, Jamil has also built a portfolio of research in collaboration with a number of world class institutes and Universities, including:

Imperial College London;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne);
University of Bonn;
University of Aberdeen;
American University of Beirut;
Swiss Epilepsy Centre; and
IMEC, focusing on VR and neural signal analysis.
Jamil is also a Fellow at the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
  • MBA
    university of Leicester, united kingdom

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Assembly coding & operating systems & teleprocessing support
    IBM (United Kingdom), Winchester, United Kingdom8 Jan 1979 - 15 Jan 1981
    IBM Education Centre - Sudbury Hill

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Engineering

POSITION NAME

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow