Dr Umaima Haider
Lecturer
Cloud Computing; Data Centers; ICT Sustainability; Software Engineering
Department of Engineering & Computing , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering
Dr Haider has over a decade of experience in academic research and teaching.
Qualifications
- BEng, MSc, PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Design and implementation of a sustainable ICT infrastructure, especially in a cloud and data center environment
- Software Architecture (particularly, Architecture Description Languages (ADLs))
OVERVIEW
Dr Haider has over a decade of experience in academic research and teaching. Prior to joining this position, Umaima was a Senior Scientist at the Enterprise Computing Research Lab here at UEL and Technical Analyst at Uptime Institute.
Dr Haider was also a Lecturer in Computing at Falmouth University, UK and held a visiting research scholar position at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. She also worked as a Research Assistant and Lecturer (HPL) at UEL. During her position as a senior Scientist at UEL, Umaima secured research funding by InnovateUK for a KTP project worth £200k circa.
Dr Haider has delivered various externally funded research and industry projects globally related to energy and environmental sustainability of ICT. Additionally, she has contributed to UK public policy on various topics such as regulating ICT product sustainability and energy consumption of ICT.
RESEARCH GROUPS
PUBLICATIONS
- S. Sheraz, M. Arfeen and U. Haider. “Achieving Sustainability through Renewable Energy Usage by Mobile Data Network Operators". Sustainability, 13(4), 1886. February 2021.
- U. Haider “Why future-proofing infrastructure is more important than ever”. Techerati, 17 April 2020
- U. Haider “Conspicuous cloud consumption in the digital era”. Techerati, 3 October 2019
- U. Haider “Building the Capacities and Skills of Stakeholders in the Data Centre Industry”, DataCentre Solutions (DCS) Europe Magazine, July 2018
- U. Haider, E. Woods, R. Bashroush. "Representing Variability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review". International Journal of Software Engineering and Computer Systems (IJSECS) ISSN: 2289-8522, 4(2): 19-37 (August 2018)
- U. Haider, J. D. McGregor and R. Bashroush. "The ALI Architecture Description Language". ACM Software Engineering Notes. Volume 43, Issue 4. October 2018.
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
- Cistor Ltd.
- Informa Tech
COURSES TAUGHT
- Cloud Computing
- Advanced Software Engineering
- Database Systems
- Information System and Modelling