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Professor Abdul Sadka is Professor of Visual Media Technologies and founding Director of the Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Aston University, a position he assumed in September 2023. A Chartered Computer & Communications Engineer (CEng) with nearly 30 years of research leadership and business engagement, he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and British Computer Society (BCS). Prior to Aston, Professor Sadka held senior roles at Brunel University London, including Director of the Institute of Digital Futures (2020–2023), Lead Academic of the Brunel Fellowship Academy reporting to the Provost (2022–2023), founding Director of the Brunel Digital Science & Technology Hub (2018–2020), Director of the Centre for Media Communications Research (2012–2018), and Head of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Digital Media (2006–2012). He chaired the Government-supported West London FE-HE partnership Group representing seven universities and six further education colleges for post-COVID skills transfer in digital industries (2020–2023) and served on the Steering Board of the NEM technology platform, influencing the European strategic research agenda in networked media.