Institute for Digital Technologies

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Sangarapillai Lambotharan

Professor Sangarapillai Lambotharan

Director of the Institute for Digital Technologies and Professor of Signal Processing and Communications.

Sangarapillai Lambotharan is an expert in Signal Processing and Wireless Communications.
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Dr Varuna De Silva

Dr Varuna De Silva

Reader in Machine Intelligence, Programme Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Institute for Digital Technologies

Dr Varuna De Silva is a Reader in Machine Intelligence and Digital Technologies and joined Loughborough University London as a Lecturer in 2016, after working in the Consumer Electronics industry as a research engineer.
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Dr Safak Dogan

Dr Safak Dogan

Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Institute for Digital Technologies

Safak is a leading international researcher and an established academic teaching professional specialised in digital media, machine intelligence, and privacy protection technologies applied in a variety of domains that matter to human lives.
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Jie Meng

Dr Jie Meng

Programme Director MSc Digital Marketing, Deputy Director LDN Doctoral Programme, and Interdisciplinary Priority Research Lead.

Jie is the Programme Director for our MSc Digital Marketing, Deputy Director of the LDN Doctoral Programme, and Interdisciplinary Priority Research Lead.
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Xiaolan Liu

Xiaolan Liu

Lecturer

Xiaolan is an expert in Digital Engineering, joined Loughborough University London in 2021, after working as a Research associate in King’s College London.
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Dr Erhan Ekmekcioglu

Dr Erhan Ekmekcioglu

Visiting Fellow in Digital Technologies

Erhan is an internationally recognised and established researcher with a strong background in communication and multimedia technologies and human computer interaction.
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Professor Dermot Hodson

Professor of Political Economy and Digital Technologies

Dermot Hodson is an expert in the field of political economy. He has published widely on FinTech, the European Union’s efforts to become a digital superpower and the changing dynamics of European integration and governance.
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Qian Li

Teaching Fellow in Digital Finance

Qian is a Teaching Fellow within the Institute for Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London. Her primary research fields encompass monetary policy, housing markets, asset price shocks, and financial economics.
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Rahul

Dr Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

Senior Lecturer, Institute for Digital Technologies

Yogachandran Rahulamathavan is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Data Analytics and joined Loughborough University London in 2016.
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Dr Courtney N. Reed

Lecturer

Courtney is a semi-professional vocalist and specialist in human computer interaction (HCI) topics surrounding music technology and digital instrument design. Incorporating experiences from her own artistic and pedagogical practices, her research examines the entangled relationships between humans, bodies, instruments, and technology in music interaction.
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Dr Xiyu Shi

Dr Xiyu Shi

Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Institute for Digital Technologies

Xiyu is a leading researcher and consultant with specialist knowledge of digital signal processing, cybersecurity, and machine learning.
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Zhichao Ma

Dr Zhichao Ma

Teaching Fellow, Institute for Digital Technologies

Dr Zhichao Ma joined Institute for Digital Technologies (Loughborough University London) in September 2023.
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