J. Iqbal is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull, UK where he is also looking after the Robotics and AI programme. Before joining Hull, he was working as a Professor at the University of Jeddah, KSA. With two decades of professional experience in academia as well as in industry, his interests include emerging learning and teaching strategies, educational pedagogy, and ethics in engineering and computer science education. He is a senior member of IEEE USA and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, UK.