Amir Pourabdollah
Research Fellow in Geospatial Science, Faculty of Engineering
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Biography
Amir has been a research fellow at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute since 2009. He has MSc and PhD in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham (2008) and BEng in Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering from the University of Tehran (1993).
Expertise Summary
Amir has been in the fields of open geospatial services and standards, Spatial Data Infrastructure in EU-funded projects, geospatial data modeling, and quality propagation in geospatial workflow management. He has also worked on mobile phone application development and Web Services for location-based and positioning technologies.
Teaching Summary
• Supervising MSc in IT students, areas include Mobile phone programming, E-Learning technologies and Virtual and mixed reality.
• Lecturer for Large Scale Systems (School of Computer Science)
• Lecturer for MSc in GIS (School of Geography)
• Lecturer for Telecommunication Technologies (school of continuing education)
• Lecturer for Computer Graphics, Programming Languages and Microsoft Office for Research (Graduate School)
• Tutor and part-semester lecturer for Web Design, Operating Systems, Principles of Multimedia, Databases, Computer Security and Applied Mathematics (School of Computer Science)
Research Summary
He has recently managed the JISC-funded ELOGeo project development and currently in charge of OSM-GB (Open Street Map for Great Britain). The international research projects that he has been involved… read more