IT and Strategic Innovation MSc: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing teaches this course. The Faculty's wide selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses covers a diverse range of subject areas, from aerospace to geography; from maths and computing to biotechnology; and many more. Our collaborative set-up provides new opportunities for our students, and we design our courses with industry professionals to ensure you stay up to date with the latest developments.

Computing and Information Systems

The School of Computing and Information Systems offers high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate courses, designed to reflect the developing needs of business and industry. We deliver our teaching in an exciting and challenging learning environment, and make use of modern, well-equipped facilities.

Our courses cover the range of modern technologies in computer science, information systems and software engineering, with specialisations in games technology; network and wireless technologies; information security; electronic business; and embedded systems.

Dr Islam Choudhury

Title: Senior lecturer and MSc course leader
Email: i.choudhury@kingston.ac.uk 

Background: Dr Choudhury is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. He is the course leader for the Information Systems MSc, Electronic Commerce MSc, and IT and Strategic Innovation MSc. As such, he is responsible for managing the operation, quality and development of these courses.

Dr Choudhury has been teaching in various universities since the late '90s and has focused his teaching in business information systems development using object oriented analysis design and implementation, agile systems development, ebusiness and mobile business.

Research fields: Dr Choudhury's research interests include generic business modelling, business process reengineering, enterprise modelling, object-oriented development, unified modelling language, unified software development, agile development, ebusiness, and mobile business. He is also supervising PhD students in these fields of research.

Dr Choudhury has been an editor of various books, has written various chapters in books, and has a wide range of journal, conference and workshop publications.

Dr Robert Mellor

Title: Principal lecturer
Email: r.b.mellor@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects: Dr Mellor has taught innovation and entrepreneurship for seven years. He has 20 years' university teaching experience and 14 years' experience in industry.

Robert has led major business process re-engineering projects in the public and private sectors. He has also served as an active expert consultant at ministerial level for over 10 years and to the EU for 12 years. 

Research fields: Dr Mellor's research speciality is modelling the spread of innovations.

Recent publications: Dr Mellor has published more than 120 peer-refereed journal and conference papers and is author of eight books, including:

• Sources and Spread of Innovation in Small E-Commerce Companies (Globe, 2005)
• Achieving Enterprise: Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Business and Academia (FGF Entrepreneurship Research Monographs, vol 49. Eul Verlag, 2005)
• Applied E-Learning (Globe, 2004)

Dr Miroslav Novak

Title: Principal lecturer and director of postgraduate programmes
Email: novak@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects: Dr Novak is the director of postgraduate programmes for computing and information systems in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. He is responsible for the taught MSc degrees' quality; academic coherence; management; and operation.

Dr Novak has been teaching and researching in universities across Europe and Australia since the late '70s. By training a theoretical physicist, his work on the first supercomputer in the UK, the Cray 1S, introduced him to vector computation and led to a series of published papers.

Research fields: Dr Novak has a long track record in convening and chairing a biennial series of international conferences on complex geometry in nature, which is his current research area. Other interests include:

• fractal geometry;
• non-linear dynamics;
• complexity; and
• multi-modal perceputalisation of data.

Recent publications: Dr Novak has published 11 books and is the author of over 40 research papers, including:

• Thinking in Patterns ed. (World Scientific, 2004)
• Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences ed. (Chapman & Hall, 1995)
• Modula-2 in Science and Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1990)