Dr Shahera Hossain BSc (Hons), ME, PhD

Dr Shahera Hossain is an award-winning researcher and educator working across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and healthcare technology. Prior to joining Ravensbourne University London, she worked at six universities, bringing extensive international experience from academic and research positions in the UK, Japan, Bangladesh, and Malta.

She has secured competitive funding as Principal Investigator (secure AI data protection) and has contributed to further Innovate UK (UKRI) funding (cyber recovery and assurance) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding (Parkinson's disease and wearable-sensor AI). She has contributed to a major UKRI–JST (Japan) research collaboration proposal valued at over £3 million, and has several further UKRI and NIHR bids in progress, reflecting an active pipeline of research collaboration with NHS Trusts, local government, and academic partners internationally.

With over 50 publications, her work appears in leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, Pattern Recognition Letters, and Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Her research and doctoral training have been recognised with several international awards and scholarships, including a Best Paper Award, a Best Abstract Award, a Winner Award, and multiple placed awards at international research challenges, the Rotary Yoneyama Scholarship, the JASSO Honors Scholarship, and the Uemura Scholarship, along with strategic collaboration support awards and competitive travel grants from the Kyushu Institute of Technology and MEISENKAI.

As a Specially Appointed Researcher at Osaka University, she led a sub-project on biometrics and security as part of Japan's Society 5.0 initiative, a major government-funded programme integrating cyberspace and physical space through AI, data science, and IoT. At the Kyushu Institute of Technology, she worked on a project with Yaskawa Electric Corporation, one of the leading robotics companies in the world. At the University of Asia Pacific, she served as founding Director of the Centre for IT Security and Privacy, Coordinator of the Research and Publication Unit, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Smart Convergence. In these roles, she built the research environment, supported postgraduate and undergraduate research programmes, and organised international conferences and workshops. She was a key contributor to, and organiser of, the International and National Collegiate Programming Contests (ICPC and NCPC), contributing to computing talent development and curriculum innovation.

She has chaired multiple international conferences, including as Programme Chair, Publication Chair, and Special Session Chair for conferences in the UK and Japan, alongside Programme Committee membership for more than fifteen conferences across Japan, Bangladesh, the UAE, and the UK. She co-organised two international Parkinson's disease research challenges, in Japan and the UAE, which led to multiple journal publications and brought together researchers from various countries around a shared healthcare challenge.

She led and taught modules across the computer science curriculum, embedding project-based and research-informed learning to enhance student outcomes. She is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE (AFHEA). She co-supervises PhD students and has supervised over 90 postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations. Her collaborative work extends into healthcare and community organisations, including the Bromley by Bow Centre, Family Action, PJ Care, and William Harvey Hospital (East Kent NHS), as well as industry partners such as Yaskawa Electric Corporation and AUTOCARE LLC in Japan, reflecting a sustained commitment to translating research into community and industry benefit.

She is focused on translating AI research into real-world impact through interdisciplinary collaboration, grant-funded innovation, and doctoral supervision. She is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), with an emphasis on mentoring and supporting women in engineering.

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