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Balbir Singh

Senior Lecturer

Balbir Singh is an experienced academic and has worked for the university for over 25 years and is a recipient of long service award from the university. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Balbir is very passionate about his role at Leeds Beckett, he loves working with students and supports them wholeheartedly. During his long service at the university, he has held a number of responsibilities including being a course leader for two courses. One of the courses was delivered collaboratively in Hong Kong. He has participated in major course development and validation events including getting course approved by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong.

He has a keen interest in enterprise related activities which generate external income and part time work for current students or recent graduates. First working with the Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology and then the School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering, he has co-managed a faculty/school based App Development Studio to support such activities. A major development for the studio was an Innovate UK funded project in collaboration with Leeds City Council. The outcome was a successful pilot run of Kirkgate Market 3D Digital Platform for Online Shopping. This project supported two full-time placement students. He was also responsible for setting up and delivering a university business scheme with Nestle York that resulted in a mobile app which was Implemented in Japan for customising KitKat gifts. A student graduated from the games course worked on this scheme for one year. He is currently proactive in applying virtual reality in virtual physiotherapy and crime scene reconstruction and is in contact with appropriate authorities for collaborative research.

Current Teaching

Courses:

BEng (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering
BEng (Hons) Robotics and Automation
BEng (Hons) Building Services Engineering
BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering

Modules:

Power Electronics L6
Engineering Simulation L6
Advanced Manufacturing Technology L6
Electrical and Electronic Principles 2 L5
Engineering Mathematics L5
Work Based Learning L7

Research Interests

He has research interest in two distinctive areas:

Virtual Reality
Machine Learning

Recently he supervised a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with a construction company where Virtual Reality was implemented in a game engine environment to visualise architecture for prospective buyer. This project was funded by Innovate UK and received an outstanding classification because of the significant technological and financial impact.

Currently he is pursuing a PhD degree where he is applying machine learning techniques for the classification of health data. He is also a regular reviewer for peer reviewed conference and journal articles. He was one of the chairs of the organising committee for the 10th International Conference Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT) held at Leeds Beckett University in June 2019.