He has long experience in teaching mathematical courses to computer science students, and supervised various undergraduate and postgraduate projects in computational mathematics. Before joining Buckingham University, he lectured at University College of Swansea and Leicester Polytechnic, as well as a number of Sixth form colleges and colleges of further education England and Wales. At Buckingham, Dr Jassim teaches courses in Information Security, Mathematics for Information Systems, Algorithms and Computational Problems. He also holds the post of Visiting Lecturer at City University, London.
Research interests Information security - cryptographic procedures and authentication protocols.
Computational geometry - algebraically designed data structures for the computation of Delaunay triangulations and other geometric objects. Graph theory approaches to deadlock analysis of large-scale process network. Group actions on 2-manifolds. S A Jassim, 'Finite Abelian Surface Coverings', Glasgow Math. S A Jassim and R R London, 'On the Maximum Modulus Paths of a Certain Cubic', Quart.