Summary
Volkan Tunali is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead for the MSc Information Technology at the University of the West of Scotland’s London campus, combining over 20 years in software engineering with more than a decade in academia. He leads a team of computing lecturers, designs and delivers undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, and supervises MSc and PhD research with a focus on text mining, AI, social network analysis and software engineering. His industry background as a team leader, project manager and senior engineer—building ERP solutions and integrations using Delphi, C# and SQL—lets him bridge practical development and academic research. A prolific author and translator with publications in top venues, he remains active in ACM, IEEE and BCS and is known for mentoring students into industry-ready roles. Notably, he has sustained long-term consultancy work alongside academic duties, reflecting a pragmatic, applied approach to computing education and research.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer-Control, 91.29, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer-Control, 91.29 at Marmara Üniversitesi
English, Turkish