dr Shelina Khalid Jilani

Dr. Shelina Khalid Jilani has a PhD in the discipline of Artificial Intelligence and her area of research relates to automated ethnicity classification of human face and face-features, from a human and Deep Learning perspective. She has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Forensic and Medical Science, a Masters in Science at a Distinction and a range of published papers and written book chapters.

Dr. Jilani is a Facial Comparison Expert with 7 years’ industry experience within the disciple of facial image analysis, and works for a private digital imaging company (Acumé Forensic). Dr Jilani is one of very few; UK qualified experts in this field and regularly attends court to give expert evidence in many civil and criminal proceedings nationwide including Scotland and Southern Ireland. On average she handles 75 enquiries per annum and has been involved in many high profile cases.

She is a professional member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, Forensic Imaging Analysis Division (FIAD) and The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG). Further, she is an associate member of the European Network of Forensic Science Institute (ENFSI) and it’s working group for Facial Image Comparison (FIC).