Professor Tuleen Boutaleb

Professor Tuleen Boutaleb received the BEng degree in Electronics Engineering and the PhD degree in cellular mobile networks for telemetry from Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), UK, in 1995 and 2006, respectively. From 1995 to 1998 she was a researcher on a European project (ISCELIS – Intelligent Supply and Control of Street Lighting Systems) working on the communications infrastructure.

From 1998 to 2001, she was a research assistant working on a European project on developing the understanding and learning of advanced technology in European schools with 500 users across UK, Greece and Germany. In 2001, she joined the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Division at Glasgow Caledonian University as a Telecommunications Engineering lecturer. Responsibilities, besides teaching electronics and communications subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, include leading programme suites development team, contributing to Professional Bodies accreditations documentations and reviewing panel, engaging with colleges and leading pilot study. Her main area of expertise is in the use of Wireless Communications (Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and cellular networks) for remote monitoring and control with over 25 years of experience in this area.

She is currently the Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment at GCU. Recent research work is in the area of smart cities with focus on vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure communications for collision avoidance, etc based on Machine to Machine (M2M) communications within Internet of Things (IoT). Research activities include working on EPSRC project (The use of LoRa for early flood warning system), working on capacity building European project (NEXUS – Nodes of EXcellence in (SEA) Universities through Spatial data), leading a H2020 bid and contributing to another, PhD supervisions, PhD examination, publications, peer reviewing and conference programme committee member.

She is dedicated to promoting Engineering to youngsters especially girls and leads many initiatives and activities in STEM to raise awareness of school pupils, teachers and parents of careers in STEM. She also Chairs Tackling Racism at GCU group which aims to raise awareness across staff and students and to discuss related issues such as recruitment, anti-racist curriculum, awarding gap, etc.