I obtained a BA in Physics and a BSc in Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Haifa, Israel and later on an MSc in Physics (relativistic field theory) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (neural networks) at the Tel-Aviv University. In 1992 I joined the neural networks group in the physics department at Edinburgh University first as a postdoc and later on as a lecturer, working mainly on theoretical issues. In 1995 I joined the Neural Computing Research Group at Aston as a lecturer and was promoted later on to a reader (1997) and subsequently to a professor (1999).  Between 2006-2012 and again between 2015-2019 I had been the Head of the Mathematics Group.

• Statistical mechanics of disordered systems
• Advanced Inference in complex systems
• Error Correcting Codes 
• Multiuser communication (CDMA, broadcasting) 
• Hard Computational Problems 
• Computing with noise
• Distributed resources in networks (including routing and smart grids)
• Learning from data and neural networks

Teaching on the Mathematics programmes:

• Partial Differential Equations (currently delivered by Bill Cox)
• Mathematical Methods
• Probabilistic Modelling

• BA in Physics (Cum Laude), Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1982
• BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (Cum Laude), Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1982
• MA in Physics, Tel-Aviv University, 1987
• PhD in Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1992

• 2016 - date: 50^th Anniversary Chair of Complexity Physics; Head of Mathematics 2015-2019.
• 1999 – date: Professor of Information Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University; Head of Mathematics 2006-2012.
• 1997 – 1999: Reader in the NCRG and Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Aston University
• 1995 – 1997: Lecturer in the NCRG and Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Aston University.
• 1993 – 1995: Lecturer in the Physics Department, University of Edinburgh.

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Phone number: +44(0)121 204 3648 
Email: d.saad@aston.ac.uk 
Room number: MB313H