Dr Shelina Jilani

A recognised and well-respected facial comparison expert with 10 years’ industry experience within the discipline of facial image analysis. She regularly attends court to give expert evidence in many civil and criminal proceedings nationwide including Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. Dr. 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 and a Masters in Science at a Distinction. She is a professional member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Science, Forensic Image Media Group 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 analysis. Since 2018, Dr. Jilani has been actively involved in developing and delivering lectures on Facial recognition and identification, to undergraduate university students at the University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom. In August 2019 Dr. Jilani successfully delivered a Facial Image training course to Iraqi security Police, Lawyers/Judges and interlocutors, on behalf of the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) Training Team in the British Embassy, Baghdad. In July 2020, Dr. Jilani headed the facial image comparison proficiency test for the ENSFI digital image working group