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Dr Xiaohua Feng is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Engineering and Creative Industries with expertise in Computer Security, Networked System, AI, Data Science, Computer Law and Machine Leaning/Deep Leaning, focusing on Computing education and pedagogics. She has been investigating machine learning models for cyber security cases several AI-driven methods for communication systems. She is currently working on some projects on AI driven models.

Dr Xiaohua Feng received her PhD degree from the University of Manchester, with Awards winner. She had worked as a Post-doc Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. She served as NCCR (National Cyberstalking Centre of Research) academic research CST leader from 2016-2021. Dr X. Feng has over 100 peer reviewed scientific publications in reputable journals and international conferences with hundreds cited. Dr X. Feng has secured grants from EU, and Nuffield foundations as the Principal Investigator of the projects. She received the Excellence Award in Project Supervision in 2015, 2016 and 2018. She has been the recipient of three IEEE Best Quality Awards from peer reviewed reputable international conferences and was invited to deliver a number of keynote speeches at several international events.

Dr Xiaohua Feng have been the Director of Computer Security and Digital Forensics Course since 2011 to present. She is portfolio leader 2009-2010. She also act as employability and placement manager. Had delivered 10 guest talk to BCS, IET, link universities and so on. She is mentor of External examiner in AI HEI course and Cyber security. She is a Fellow of HEA, Member of BCS, MEPC (Engineering Professors Council), Member of IEEE Hyper Intelligence Technical-Program Committee Panel and Member of IET. She is an Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) Award winner, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principles 1996 UK.

She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Springer journal and IEEE Transactions. She has chaired more than 20 international conferences (e.g. General CoChair for ACM International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering CSEA 2018, IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE-2023), General Chair of European CloudCom 2024 and Executive General Chair for IEEE International Workshop on Applications of AI, Cyber Security and Economics Data Analytics (ACE) from 2017 to present. Act 12 PG research students’ internal examiner and three external examiners. Dr

Xiaohua Feng has served years in UK industries and embedded her experience in computer science teaching. Have a track record of 6 AY 100% satisfactions in BUS survey. The students I taught, three achieved the Best Graduate Award, Five of the best project awards and Two of the best student award, respectively. Currently have successful completed five PG research students’ supervision and still have five PhD students’ supervision.

Research interests

  • Digital Forensics, Systems Security, Legal Issues & Mobile Computing
  • Cloud-Edge Computing and Wireless Network related IssuesData
  • Mining, KDD. AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Teaching Expertise

  • Computer Law
  • AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Digital Forensics
  • Systems Security, Network Planning and Strategy
  • Computer Communications, Computer Systemed Architecture,
  • Information System Management and Government, Cryptography
  • Cisco/SANS original trained instruct

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Computer Science, University of Manchester

External positions

External Examiner , HEIsGeneral

Associate Editor , Association for Computing Machinery

Reviewer, Association for Computing Machinery

Member, British Computer Society

Member, Engineering Professors' Council

Associate Editor , IEEE

Reviewer , IEEE

Member, IEEE

Panel Member, Woman in STEM , IEEE Smart World Congress

Panel Member, Woman in Smart World, IEEE Smart World Congress

Member , IET Comms

Associate Editor , InderScience

Mentor of External Examiner , Northumbria University

External Examiner, Northumbria University

External Examiner, Royal Holloway University of London

Reviewer, Springer International

Associate Editor , Springer Nature

Member, The cloud security alliance UK branch

External Examiner , University of Exeter

Keywords

  • T Technology
  • Digital Forensics
  • AI
  • DL & Cloud-Edge Computing
  • Education and Pedagogic Research

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  • AI and forensics security with cloud, networks impact on education

    Feng, X., 23 Jul 2025, Cloud Computing - 12th EAI International Conference, CloudComp 2024, Proceedings. Feng, X., Siarry, P., Han, L. & Yang, L. (eds.). 617 ed. Springer, p. 118-130 13 p. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; vol. 617 LNICST).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • Beyond the key: towards practical radio biometrics in cars

    Migacz, L., Feng, X. & Conrad, M., 31 Oct 2025, Proceedings - 2025 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Smart City, 11th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications and 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys/ICESS 2025. Hu, J., Min, G., Wang, H., Miao, W., Xu, L., Georgalas, N., Zhao, Z., Jin, R., Pang, G., Han, W. & Hao, F. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1231-1236 6 p. (Proceedings - 2025 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Smart City, 11th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications and 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys/ICESS 2025).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • Cloud Computing

    Feng, X. (Editor), Siarry, P. (Editor), Han, L. (Editor) & Yang, L. (Editor), 22 Jul 2025, Springer Nature. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 617)

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  • EDI in higher education challenge

    Feng, X., 31 Oct 2025, Proceedings - 2025 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Smart City, 11th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications and 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys/ICESS 2025. Hu, J., Min, G., Wang, H., Miao, W., Xu, L., Georgalas, N., Zhao, Z., Jin, R., Pang, G., Han, W. & Hao, F. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1625-1630 6 p. (Proceedings - 2025 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Smart City, 11th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications and 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys/ICESS 2025).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • Empowering HEIs through LLMs and cloud computing: strategies for seamless integration and sustainable transformation

    Idris, M. D., Feng, X. & Dyo, V., 23 Jul 2025, Cloud Computing - 12th EAI International Conference, CloudComp 2024, Proceedings. Feng, X., Siarry, P., Han, L. & Yang, L. (eds.). 617 ed. Springer, p. 57-73 17 p. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; vol. 617 LNICST).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review