Prof. Ing. Saviour Zammit graduated Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Malta in 1986, Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aston in 1990 as a commonwealth scholar, and Doctor of Philosophy from the same University in 1996.

Prof. Zammit first joined the UM in 1991 and has launched and lectured courses in Telecommunications, Signal Processing, Multimedia Processing, Computer Architecture, Real Time Systems, Computer Networks, Embedded Systems and Entrepreneurship.

Between 1997 and 2008 Prof. Ing. Saviour Zammit was a board director and technical director for a number of public and private companies.

Whilst in industry, Prof. Zammit was an executive member of the Chamber of Professional Engineers, the Computing Society of Malta, the IEEE Malta Section, and the Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, serving as ICT sector chairman with a seat on the central committee.

Prof. Ing. Zammit rejoined the UM on a full time basis in 2008. He was founding Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation and is currently a full Professor within the Faculty of ICT. Between 2016 and 2021 Prof. Zammit was Pro-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer. He chaired the IT Services Committee and the Distance and eLearning Committee and represented Malta in the COST ICT domain, the eIRG and the eIPF.

He has participated in a number of funded research projects and conducts research in Smart Wireless Multimedia Networks, mHealth systems, Digital Gaming Platforms and Entrepreneurship.

Prof. Ing. Zammit consults regularly for public and private sector organizations and enterprises.

Chair Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies (CDLT)
Board Member Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation (CEBI)
Member executive board NIC Malta
Member of the CPE, IEEE, ACM
Warranted Engineer