Dr. Clifford De Raffaele

Dr.Ing. Clifford De Raffaele was conferred an electricalengineering degree from the University of Malta, a Masters in ICT from thedepartment of Computer and Communications Engineering and a Ph.D. in ComputerScience from Middlesex University.

Dr. Ing. De Raffaele held senior managementroles in Higher Education, whereby he served as the Associate Director forAcademia and Research at Middlesex University Malta, and recently held the postof Director for Research and Innovation at the Malta College for Arts, Scienceand Technology, whereby he was responsible for leading all research andinnovation initiatives stemming across the organization as well as setting thestrategic direction of MCAST towards pursuing research opportunities. Followinghis management career, he undertook a more active role in academia andcurrently is leading the computer science programme whilst holding a senior lecturing position at MiddlesexUniversity.

Dr. Ing. De Raffaele has participated innumerous national and EU funded research projects in the capacity ofcollaborating partner, lead researcher and principal investigator. He serves onvarious strategic boards at national level on academia and research and iscurrently an executive member of the IEEE Malta Section. His current researchinterests include Biomedical Devices, Innovative User Interfaces, Image/VideoProcessing and Emerging Technologies.