Shirin Dora is currently a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University. His area of research is resource-efficient AI for real-world applications. He completed his PhD at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on the topic of biologically plausible learning approaches for spiking neural networks. During his PhD, he developed a keen interest in the mechanisms of perception and cognition in the brain. This led him to pursue post-doctoral research in computational neuroscience as part of the cognitive and systems neuroscience group at the University of Amsterdam. In his postdoctoral research, he collaborated with experimentalists in building deep, biologically plausible models of perception and multisensory integration in the brain. From October 2019 to September 2021, he was a lecturer on data analytics at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre at Ulster University in the United Kingdom.