Salim Saay

Salim Saay is a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Limerick and Lero-the SFI Research Centre for Software. He holds a Ph.D. of Software Engineering from Tallinn University Estonia, where he developed a reference architecture for a national e-Learning infrastructure. He holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Kabul University. Salim has worked as Associate Professor at Kabul University and as a Lecturer at the Athlone Institute of Technology. He has also worked in government and various industries, including as Director of IT and Manager of AfgREN-Afghanistan Research and Education Network at the Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan, NATO, and UNDP. Salim’s research interests include architecture designing, low-code software development, and organizational collaboration. He has secured international funding for his studies and research from various funding resources, including SFI, IRC, EC, USAID, world bank, Ministry of foreign affair of Estonia, and NATO. Currently ( in 2023) he works on three research projects, including the development of a secure collaboration platform for schools, designing a MOOC based on Blockchain for environment and sustainability issues , and creating a research platform for AI-driven collaborative robotic technology.