Dr Ling Ma, PhD, SFHEAReader in Software EngineeringEmail: ling.ma@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 20 7882 7343Room Number: Engineering, Eng E307Website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~lingm/Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:00ProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsProfileDr Ling Ma is a Reader in Software Engineering at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the Queen Mary University of London. She also teaches on the Joint Programme between Queen Mary and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She is the Director of QMUL-BUPT Joint Teaching and Learning Centre (JTLC), Programme Director of e-Commerce Engineering with Law and Subject Examination Board (SEB) chair of Queen Mary School Hainan (QMSH). She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), actively involved in the HEA fellowship mentoring and reviewing at Queen Mary. She is a member of the ACM and IET. She received the QMUL Education Excellence Award in 2019, and led the JTLC team to win the QMUL Education Excellence Award in 2024.TeachingProject (BUPT joint programme) Software Engineering (BUPT joint programme) An introduction to modern software development techniques necessary to produce high quality software and to manage the production of this software, and additional practice in program development. The module focuses on communication: ensuring customer requirements have been correctly understood, learning to develop a software as a team, developing clean code and the critical problems of project management.ResearchResearch Interests:Modern Software Development Methodologies, Context-aware Computing and Acoustic Environment Classification.Publications Alam A, Ma L, Watson A et al. (2022). Transnational Education and E-Learning during a Pandemic: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future. nameOfConference DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.101089 QMRO: qmroHref Hussain, Gamage, Sagor et al. (2019). A Systematic Review of Project Allocation Methods in Undergraduate Transnational Engineering Education. nameOfConference DOI: 10.3390/educsci9040258 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61187 Ma L, Milner B, Smith D (2006). Acoustic environment classification. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1149290.1149292 QMRO: qmroHref Smith D, Ma L, Ryan N (2006). Acoustic environment as an indicator of social and physical context. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0045-4 QMRO: qmroHref