Rate My Professor Shadi Basurra

Basurra has led significant projects, including the EcRoFit initiative at Birmingham City University, which developed technology for retrofitting solid wall homes into energy-efficient smart homes and won the Property, Tech and Construction accolade at the West Midlands Tech Awards in 2022. Key publications include 'Energy Efficient Zone based Routing Protocol for MANETs' (2014), co-authored during her time at the University of Bath; 'The power of progressive active learning in floorplan recognition' in Scientific Reports (2023); 'Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models for Detection of Sarcopenia Subtypes' (2024); 'Advanced Diagnosis of Cardiac and Respiratory Diseases Using Hybrid Transfer Learning Models' (2025); and contributions to 'Internet of Things and data mining: From applications to techniques and theory' (2019). Her work has garnered over 941 citations on ResearchGate across 54 publications. At the University of Reading, she has engaged in public discourse, including an interview with BBC Radio Berkshire on X's AI, Grok, in January 2026. As Head of Department, she oversees academic and administrative staff, graduate teaching assistants, and research activities in computer science.