Talal Shaikh is a Director Of Undergraduate Studies at Heriot-Watt University. He possess expertise in software development, project management, business intelligence, disaster recovery, itil and 37 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "He is a wonderful human being understand the technical needs of client work with a proper ROI based approach great team player support team he was very successful in teams on implementation process " and "Its been always a great honour to be the student of a "Great Teacher and a Friend". He is one of the tech freak who is always interested in innovations. For the past one year he was my mentor on my Post Graduation Thesis. His vast knowledge about recommender systems and related technologies helped me learn new things in that specific domain. I am thankful for all the help he did during the whole Post Graduation time. "