Summary
Cigdem Sengul is a Reader (Associate Professor) based in England with over a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and networked systems, specializing in privacy, security and usability for networked and IoT systems with healthcare applications. She combines academic leadership—teaching sustainable software project practices, Agile/Scrum, React and Spring Boot—with hands-on research that has influenced standards (Kantara UMA, IETF ACE) and industry practice. Her background spans wireless testbeds, DTN routing, and resource-efficient wireless protocols from postdoc and research roles across INRIA, TU Berlin and Nominet to senior academic posts in the UK. An active educator and equality advocate (Athena SWAN chair and EDI champion), she also brings outreach experience translating research for school audiences, co-authoring a BBC Micro:bit networking book for Year 7 students.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Control and Computer Engineering, BS, Control and Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
Turkish, French, German, English