Key details
Aliyah B Essop
Senior Lecturer, Academic Portfolio Lead for Engineering Management
Aliyah heads the Engineering Management Portfolio which includes a diverse suite of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes namely: Engineering Management, Global Shipping Management, Digital Technology Solutions and Engineering Design and Innovation. She is an experienced academic who started off as a visiting lecturer in Management and Finance for Engineers at the University of Greenwich. She was previously a lecturer in Economics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where she supported the academic development programme to empower students post the apartheid era.
During her time at the University of Greenwich, she has led several programmes and modules covering strategic management, accounting and finance in an engineering context, where she collaborated with local employers to embed employability initiatives in her courses. Her practice encompasses inclusivity to enhance the learning environment and experience for all students, as well as motivating them to develop a positive and growth. She also acted as the Inclusivity Champion at the School of Engineering.
Responsibilities within the university
Academic Portfolio Lead for Engineering Management
Programme Leader
- BEng Engineering Management
- MSc Engineering Management
- MSc Engineering Management with Industrial Practice
Module Leader
Engineering Management, Accounting and Finance for Engineers and Project Managers.
Awards
School Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Computing & Information Systems Department
Nominations at the Student Led Awards 2023
- Outstanding Feedback Award (Finalist)
- Outstanding Personal Tutor Award (Finalist)
- Inspirational Teaching Award (Finalist)
Nominations at the Student Led Awards 2022
- Winner- Dissertation, Research Project or Thesis Supervisor Award
Nominations at the Student Led Awards 2021
- Winner-Inspirational Teaching Award 2021
- Supervisor of the Year award (Finalist)
- Lecturer of the year award (Finalist)
- Outstanding Personal Tutor award
- Extra Mile award
Nominations at the Student Led Awards 2020:
- Supervisor of the Year award
- Faculty Star award
- Outstanding Personal Tutor award
- Extra Mile award
Recognition
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management
Research / Scholarly interests
She has a keen interest in the challenges and best practices in IT and engineering management in a global economy, with focus on corporate responsibility and sustainability in emerging markets. She has a special interest in successful initiatives to empower women in developing countries through education and micro-entrepreneurship.
She had previously collaborated with Dr Ray Stoneham to develop a system to facilitate supervision of final year projects/dissertation at the university. She is investigating social engineering issues for mobile devices.
Recent publications
Conference proceedings
Papaioannou, Maria , Mantas, Georgios, Panaousis, Emmanouil, Essop, Aliyah , Rodriguez, Jonathan , Sucasas, Victor (2023), Behavioral biometrics for mobile user authentication: benefits and limitations. IEEE. In: , , , 2023 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking). IEEE, Laxenburg, Austria (1st) . ISBN: 9798350339383 1861-2288 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNetworking57963.2023.10186419).
Papaioannou, Maria , Mantas, Georgios, Essop, Aliyah, Sucasas, Victor , Aaraj, Najwa , Rodriguez, Jonathan (2022), Risk estimation for a secure and usable user authentication mechanism for mobile passenger ID devices. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , In: IEEE Organizing Committee (ed.), 2022 IEEE 27th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). 02-03 November 2022. Paris, France. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, New Jersey (1st) . pp. 173-178 . ISBN: 9781665461290; 9781665461306ISSN: 2378-4873 (Print), 2378-4865 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD**************6915).
Papaioannou, Maria , Zachos, Georgios, Mantas, Georgios, Essop, Aliyah , Karasuwa, Abdulkareem , Rodriguez, Jonathan (2022), Generating datasets based on the HuMIdb dataset for risk-based user authentication on Smartphones. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , In: IEEE Organizing Committee (ed.), 2022 IEEE 27th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). 02-03 November 2022. Paris, France. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, New Jersey (1st) . pp. 134-139 . ISBN: 9781665461290; 9781665461306ISSN: 2378-4873 (Print), 2378-4865 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD55695.2022.9966901).
Papaioannou, Maria , Mantas, Georgios, Essop, Aliyah, Cox, Phil , Otung, I E , Rodriguez, Jonathan (2021), Risk-based adaptive user authentication for mobile passenger ID devices for land/sea border control. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: 2021 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 25-27 October, 2021, Porto, Portugal In: IEEE Conference Committee (ed.), 2021 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ (1st) . pp. 1-6 . ISBN: 9781665417792ISSN: 2378-4865 (Print), 2378-4873 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD52502.2021.9617802).