Rate My Professor Shadi Basurra

Professor Shadi Basurra is Professor in Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Reading, within the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences. She earned her B.Sc. (Hons.) in computer science from the University of Exeter, M.Sc. in distributed systems and networks from the University of the West of England, and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bath in 2014. Prior to her current role, Basurra served as a faculty member at Birmingham City University, where she was affiliated with the Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Research Group and contributed to research subgroups in Evolutionary Computation and Multi-agent Systems. During her time at Birmingham City University, she held a Research Fellow position in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media from 2014 to 2016. Her research focuses on multi-agent systems, multi-objective optimization, evolutionary computation, and game theory, with applications in areas such as energy-efficient building retrofitting, water distribution networks, IoT, machine learning for healthcare, and smart systems.

Basurra has led significant projects, including the EcRoFit initiative at Birmingham City University, which developed technology for retrofitting solid wall homes into energy-efficient smart homes and won the Property, Tech and Construction accolade at the West Midlands Tech Awards in 2022. Key publications include 'Energy Efficient Zone based Routing Protocol for MANETs' (2014), co-authored during her time at the University of Bath; 'The power of progressive active learning in floorplan recognition' in Scientific Reports (2023); 'Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models for Detection of Sarcopenia Subtypes' (2024); 'Advanced Diagnosis of Cardiac and Respiratory Diseases Using Hybrid Transfer Learning Models' (2025); and contributions to 'Internet of Things and data mining: From applications to techniques and theory' (2019). Her work has garnered over 941 citations on ResearchGate across 54 publications. At the University of Reading, she has engaged in public discourse, including an interview with BBC Radio Berkshire on X's AI, Grok, in January 2026. As Head of Department, she oversees academic and administrative staff, graduate teaching assistants, and research activities in computer science.