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Dr Nura Abubakar
Associate Lecturer (Education)

Summary

Dr Nura Tijjani Abubakar is an Associate Lecturer (Education) and Year 3 Module Leader in Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Brunel University London (2021), an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University, and a BSc in Computing and Software Engineering with First Class Honours.

With over 20 years of experience spanning academic teaching, research, and curriculum design, Dr Abubakar leads undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across four modules, supervises student projects at Year 2, Final Year, and Masters level, and contributes to departmental leadership through module coordination, Extenuating Circumstances administration, and student admissions. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), reflecting a sustained and formally recognised commitment to high-quality teaching and learning in higher education.

Beyond Brunel, he serves as External Examiner to the Department of Computer Science at the University of East London, and has been engaged by the University of London as Resource Person to design the Programming for AI module for their BSc in Artificial Intelligence — externally recognised contributions that enhance Brunel's reputation for education quality. He also serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Simulation and the Winter Simulation Conference, and is an active researcher on the NASA Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) Programme.

His doctoral research produced a world-first cloud-based distributed simulation framework, with outputs published at the IEEE Winter Simulation Conference and cited internationally. He has received multiple awards for research excellence at Brunel, including Best Research Poster (2018 and 2020) and 2nd Place and People's Choice in the Three Minute Thesis competition (2019).

Qualifications

  • Internation Diploma in ICT, Singapore
  • Advanced Diploma in ICT, Singapore
  • BSc Computing and Software Engineering, Singapore
  • MSc Software Engineering, Oxford
  • PhD Computer Science, London