Rate My Professor Bouchra Senadji

Professor Bouchra Senadji serves as Head of Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University, becoming the institution's first female Head of Engineering. Prior to joining JCU, she progressed through leadership roles at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where she currently maintains an Adjunct Professor position in the Faculty of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics. Her academic qualifications include a PhD from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, a Master's degree in Signal Processing and Automatic Control from Universite de Toulouse III, and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electrotechnique. She commenced her professional career in France building software after completing her studies in Electrical Engineering at a French Grandes Écoles, then relocated to Australia for a four-month post-doctoral fellowship in Telecommunications at QUT, which extended into a two-year lecturing position and subsequent advancements.

Professor Senadji's areas of expertise encompass telecommunications, biomedical engineering, security, and diagnostics in asset management, with research interests in wireless communications, cognitive radio, and channel modelling. Her scholarly contributions are highlighted on Google Scholar, featuring prominent publications such as 'Detecting relay attacks with timing-based protocols' (Reid et al., 2007, 290 citations), 'Enhanced forensic speaker verification using a combination of DWT and MFCC feature warping in the presence of noise and reverberation conditions' (Al-Ali et al., 2017, 78 citations), 'Ricean K-factor estimation in mobile communication systems' (Azemi et al., 2004, 57 citations), 'Mobile unit velocity estimation based on the instantaneous frequency of the received signal' (Azemi et al., 2004, 50 citations), and 'Using journey maps as a holistic, reflective approach to capture student engineering identity experiences' (Young et al., 2024). At JCU, she has overseen a 49% rise in Semester One commencing engineering enrolments for 2024, achieving over 20% female commencing students for the first time and supporting the Active Women in Engineering society.