Dr. Usman Akhtar is a Lecturer in the School of Computing at Arden University Berlin, bringing over a decade of expertise in Computer Science and Engineering. With a Ph.D. in the field, he specializes in Big Data, Cloud-Centric IoT, and Digital Health, focusing on innovative solutions that address real-world challenges.
Dr Zainab Pirani is a Lecturer in Computing at Arden University with over 22 years of experience in higher education, curriculum design, and academic leadership. Before joining Arden, she taught at De Montfort University and served as Head of Computer Engineering at Mumbai University, where she led programme development and quality enhancement initiatives.
Ali Vaisifard is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Arden University’s Berlin campus, with over fourteen years of teaching and academic management experience. He holds master’s degrees in Data Science and Software Engineering and has extensive experience teaching modules in Mathematics and Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and Programming.
Bhawna Jasuja has been the Programme Team Leader at Arden University since 2023. With extensive academic experience across various universities and continents, she holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Computer Science, along with a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Training. Her expertise spans teaching, curriculum development, and module and programme leadership, as well as student admissions and recruitment. She leads a team of 5 full-time staff and more than 15 associate lecturers across the Distance Learning programme.
Loraine Charlet Annie is a Senior Lecturer in Computing and teaches at Arden’s Manchester campus. She is passionate about teaching the core modules of computing and encouraging the students to use them in their studies and professions. Prior to joining Arden University, she worked at various roles such as Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Programme Coordinator and software developer for more than 13 years.
Johnson joined Arden University as a Computing Lecturer in 2023 and assumed the role of Senior Lecturer in 2025. He has been an educator for Computing in the further/higher education sector for more than 11 years, and is experienced in accreditation, curriculum development, module leadership, programme administration and leadership, student recruiting, internship coordination and liaison with external stakeholders. Johnson attained his BSc (Hons) and MPhil degrees from the University of Hong Kong, both in Computer Science.
Rajeswari is Programme Team Leader and a Senior Lecturer. She is a specialist in Health Informatics and Signal Processing with several years of experience applying AI models to a wide range of real-world problems. As module leader and currently programme team leader, she has a wealth of experience in curriculum development, academic management and higher education.Rajeswari’s PhD was in the area of information and data security where she worked on exploring algorithms to securely hide data in time-series.
Jeyaprabhavathi Perumal is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Arden University, where she leads a team of lecturers and associate lecturers across London campuses, fostering a collaborative and supportive academic environment. She oversees module quality assurance, supports academic staff development, and conducts teaching observations to promote instructional quality and student engagement. She supports the marking team collaboratively, assisting with a variety of marking and moderation challenges while working towards the timely release of provisional grades.
Agneau is a Senior Lecturer within STEM. He joined Arden in November 2023 having previously taught for many years in schools, universities and other HE institutions with various curriculum and pastoral responsibilities, as well as consulting for exam boards to develop their syllabuses and run national examinations. He has a wide range of academic interests in computer science and interdisciplinary areas such as formal logic and computational linguistics, as well as in education policy and practice.
Since developing for various BBC web platforms at the turn of the millennium, Phil Prior has been continually engaged with the creation of digital media artefacts, be they websites, digital video productions or database driven applications. Alongside this, since 2004, he has taught as an academic in both the higher and further education sectors, taking responsibility for programme development and delivery in digital media production, critical media analysis and computing.