Bilyaminu Romo Auwal

Dr Bilyaminu Auwal Romo

Senior Lecturer

Department of Engineering & Computing

Dr Bilyaminu is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Digital Technologies. He is currently the Course Leader for BSc Computer Science and Undergraduate Academic Lead.

Qualifications

  • 2016 - PhD in Computer Science (Software Engineering), Brunel University
  • 2018 - PG Cert in Higher Education, Coventry University. UK.
  • 2014 - TERP10 SAP ERP Integration of Business Processes. SAP UK
  • 2012 - BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, University of East London. UK
  • 2008 - Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) in Economics & Computer Science, Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, Nigeria

Areas Of Interest

Software Maintenance and Evolution; Software Component Reuse and Open Source Systems; Software Architecture; Mining Software Repositories; Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering; Smart Contracts reengineering; Circular Economy (Circularity theory); Digital Economy & FinTech

Bilyaminu Romo Auwal

OVERVIEW

Bilyaminu attained a PhD in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from Brunel University London, with experience in the industry and academia.

Before joining UEL, his recent multidisciplinary research role at Exergy Global UK include Software Development Consultant of €13M EU's Horizon 2020 ECOBulk.EU project to design and implement a circular economy digital platform. He had been a Lecturer and co-investigator of £30K GCRF Frontiers of Engineers Royal Academy of Engineering seed funding project whilst at Coventry University Group.

His research interests include Open Source Software (OSS) projects, OSS-Component Re-use, software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories and blockchain technology. In the past, his focus has been improving the quality of bug data in open-source software repositories.

Bilyaminu is a Professional Member of the British Computer Society (Membership number: 995115387), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, as well as Research Associate (External Affiliation) at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Bilyaminu is also one of the founding member of UEL Fintech Centre and contributed in hosting its prestigious podcast series in collaboration with industry partners.

External Roles

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  • Research Associate (External Affiliation) at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (2020 - Present - http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/associates/
  • Visiting Researcher at the Communication and Information Research Centre (CIRC) at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman. (February 2019).
  • Speaker at a workshop at The 14th edition of the BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution seminar (BENEVOL 2015), Lille France, 3 December 2015.
  • Software Development Consultant of €13M EU's Horizon 2020 ECOBulk.EU project at Exergy Global UK.
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CURRENT RESEARCH

Dr Bilyaminu's research interests include Open Source Software (OSS) projects; OSS Component Re-use; Circularity theory and Blockchain Technology: Open Source Distributed Application. In the past, his focus has been improving the quality of bug data in open-source software repositories.

PUBLICATIONS

My publications can be found on Google Scholar and on the UEL repository.

FUNDING

2021: Co-investigator of £23K UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Project titled "Circularity and Blockchain Technology for Food Redistribution and Community Well-being".

TEACHING

  • Software Development
  • Mobile & Distributed Systems (Module Leader)
  • Information Systems
  • Supervision of Master Dissertations
  • Supervision of Doctoral Students
  • Advanced Software Engineering (Module Leader)

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below. 

Full publications list

Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications

Research repository