Professor Babakalli Alkali

Head of Department
Professor Babakalli Alkali is the Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research interests are in Industrial Maintenance Modelling and its Application in Business and Industry; Energy Assets Management and Statistical Process Control; Reliability Analysis and Applied Probability Modelling in Transport Systems; and
Stochastic Processes, Optimization, Risks and Availability Assessment. He has project led several KTPs within the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment including the First Scotrail partnership. Prior to joining GCU Babakalli worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Management Science at Strathclyde Business School, Oct 2005 – Sept 2008 and gained his PhD in Operational Research and Applied Mathematical Statistics from Salford University.