Mariam Kiran is a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Bradford (UK) and a research fellow at the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the British Computing Society and the Women’s Engineering Society. She joined Bradford after several years of research and teaching at the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds (UK).

She is actively involved in various research activities in cloud computing; agent-based modeling, particularly using FLAME (an agent-based modeling framework for complex systems); developing testing and verification techniques; using game theory, multi-objective optimization, and agent learning; and studying economic, sociologic, and biologic modeling using various computational techniques. She is particularly focused on web services, brokering models, trust, risk, security, and optimization aspects in the cloud, as well as developing cloud applications. She holds a PhD in co-evolutionary learning and optimization in agents focusing on economic market models.

Kiran has branched out of university research and has applied her ideas to various industry applications, distributing most of her software as open-source. She is involved in research on smart cities, and is a consultant on EU projects for Telsec Corporation. She has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2012.