Dr Badr Abdullah
School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Email: B.M.Abdullah@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 8070
Dr Badr Abdullah is the Programme Leader of Architectural Engineering & Building Services Engineering at the Department of the Built Environment. Badr gained an MEng in Electrical Engineering and Electronics in 2004 and a PhD in Vision Monitoring Systems for Hybrid Welding Processes and Hazardous Environments in Real-time in 2007 from the University of Liverpool. Badr’s main teaching areas are Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Engineering Principles and Electrical Engineering.
As well as teaching, Badr heads the i4Sens3D (Industry 4, Sensors and Drones) Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. Badr has extensive research interests spanning a wide range of unique applied science and technologies for the design and development of sensors to suit a wide range of industries such as built environment, energy, oil/gas, environmental monitoring, manufacturing and healthcare.
Degrees
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD
Academic appointments
Programme Leader, Built Environment, Liverpool JM University, 2018 - present
preprint
Krishnan A, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2024. On the Encoding of Gender in Transformer-based ASR Representations arXiv DOI
Shaik MM, Klakow D, Abdullah BM. 2023. Self-supervised Adaptive Pre-training of Multilingual Speech Models for Language and Dialect Identification arXiv DOI
Steuer J, Abdullah B, List J-M, Klakow D. 2023. Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Shaik MM, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2023. An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Self-supervised Discrete Representations of Speech arXiv DOI
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave AJ, Bras A, Cullen J. 2023. Developing the Reliable Shallow Supervised Learning for Thermal Comfort using ASHRAE RP-884 and ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2023. Analyzing the Representational Geometry of Acoustic Word Embeddings arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2022. Integrating Form and Meaning: A Multi-Task Learning Model for Acoustic Word Embeddings arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Zaitova I, Avgustinova T, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2021. How Familiar Does That Sound? Cross-Lingual Representational Similarity Analysis of Acoustic Word Embeddings arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Mosbach M, Zaitova I, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2021. Do Acoustic Word Embeddings Capture Phonological Similarity? An Empirical Study arXiv DOI
Salesky E, Abdullah BM, Mielke SJ, Klyachko E, Serikov O, Ponti E, Kumar R, Cotterell R, Vylomova E. 2021. SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification arXiv DOI
Mosbach M, Degaetano-Ortlieb S, Krielke M-P, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2020. A Closer Look at Linguistic Knowledge in Masked Language Models: The Case of Relative Clauses in American English arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Kudera J, Avgustinova T, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2020. Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language Identification arXiv DOI
Abdullah BM, Avgustinova T, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2020. Cross-Domain Adaptation of Spoken Language Identification for Related Languages: The Curious Case of Slavic Languages arXiv DOI
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Castaño-Rosa R, Ahmad MW, Rostami A. A Framework to Identify and Prioritise the Key Sustainability Indicators: Assessment of Heating Systems in the Built Environment DOI Publisher Url
Journal article
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave A, Brás A, Cullen J. 2024. Field studies of the Artificial Intelligence model for defining indoor thermal comfort to acknowledge the adaptive aspect Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 133 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave AJ, Brás A, Cullen J. 2024. Developing a Reliable Shallow Supervised Learning for Thermal Comfort using Multiple ASHRAE Databases IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, :1-13 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Castaño-Rosa R, Ahmad MW, Rostami A. 2023. A framework to identify and prioritise the key sustainability indicators: Assessment of heating systems in the built environment Sustainable Cities and Society, 95 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Amin M, Abdullah BM, Wylie SR, Rowley-Neale SJ, Banks CE, Whitehead KA. 2022. The Voltammetric Detection of Cadaverine Using a Diamine Oxidase and Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Functionalised Electrochemical Biosensor Nanomaterials, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Castaño-Rosa R, Ahmad MW, Rostami A, Cullen J. 2022. Towards a just heat transition in the building sector: A study on social indicators of sustainability Science Talks, 4 DOI Publisher Url
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Castaño-Rosa R, Ahmad MW, Rostami A, Cullen J. 2022. Planning energy interventions in buildings and tackling fuel poverty: Can two birds be fed with one scone? Energy Research & Social Science, 93 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Jannat N, Cullen J, Abdullah B, Latif Al-Mufti RA, Karyono K. 2022. Thermophysical Properties of Sawdust and Coconut Coir Dust Incorporated Unfired Clay Blocks Construction Materials, 2 :234-257 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Ahmad MW, Rostami A, Cullen J. 2022. Bringing fuel poverty forward from post-intervention evaluations to design and decision-making stages People, Place and Policy Online, :1-9 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Amin M, Abdullah BM, Rowley-Neale SJ, Wylie S, Slate AJ, Banks CE, Whitehead KA. 2022. Diamine Oxidase-Conjugated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes to Facilitate Electrode Surface Homogeneity Sensors, 22 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Jannat N, Latif Al-Mufti RA, Hussein A, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. 2021. Influences of Agro-wastes on the Physico-mechanical and Durability Properties of Unfired Clay Blocks Construction and Building Materials, 318 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Karyono K, Romano A, Abdullah BM, Cullen J, Bras A. 2021. The role of hygrothermal modelling for different housing typologies by estimating indoor relative humidity, energy usage and anticipation of fuel poverty Building and Environment, 207 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Abbasi MH, Abdullah B, Ahmad MW, Rostami A, Cullen J. 2021. Heat transition in the European building sector: Overview of the heat decarbonisation practices through heat pump technology Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 48 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Jannat N, Latif Al-Mufti RA, Hussien A, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. 2021. Influence of Sawdust Particle Sizes on the Physico-Mechanical Properties of Unfired Clay Blocks Design, 5 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Sufian AT, Abdullah BM, Ateeq M, Wah R, Clements D. 2021. Six-Gear Roadmap Towards the Smart Factory Applied Sciences, 11 :3568-3568 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Amin M, Tang S, Shalamanova L, Taylor RL, Wylie S, Abdullah BM, Whitehead KA. 2021. Polyamine biomarkers as indicators of human disease Biomarkers, 26 :77-94 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Leo DG, Perry D, Abdullah B, Jones H. 2021. PROMIS Paediatric Lower Limbs Mobility Tool is Correlated with Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity in Children with Hip Diseases The Bone and Joint Journal, 103-B :405-410 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave AJ, Brás A. 2020. The Adaptive Thermal Comfort Review from the 1920s, the Present, and the Future Developments in the Built Environment, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Karyono K, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A, Brás A. 2020. A Novel Adaptive Lighting System Which Considers Behavioral Adaptation Aspects for Visually Impaired People Buildings, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Jannat N, Hussien A, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. 2020. A Comparative Simulation Study of the Thermal Performances of the Building Envelope Wall Materials in the Tropics Sustainability, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Jannat N, Hussien A, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. 2020. Application of agro and non-agro waste materials for unfired earth blocks construction: A review Construction and Building Materials, 254 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Grindley J, McAree O, Ateeq M, Abdullah B, Bezombes F. 2020. Towards Software Based Optical Communication Methods for the Assistance of Docking Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Electronics, 9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Muradov M, Cullen J, Abdullah B, Ateeq M, Mason A, Shaw A, Al-Shamma'a A. 2020. Real-time monitoring of meat drying process using microwave spectroscopy International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, 7 :1-5 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Mason A, Korostynska O, Louis J, Cordova-Lopez LE, Abdullah B, Greene J, Connell R, Hopkins J. 2017. Non-Invasive In-situ Measurement of Blood Lactate using Microwave Sensors. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Mason ASA, Abdullah B, Muradov M, Korostynska O, Al-Shamma'a A, Bjarnadottir SG, Lunde K, Alvseike O. 2016. Theoretical Basis and Application for Measuring Pork Loin Drip Loss Using Microwave Spectroscopy Sensors, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Abdullah BM, Mason A, Al-Shamma'A A. 2013. Defect detection of the weld bead based on electromagnetic sensing Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 450 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Abdullah B. Influence of the Plasma Sheath on Plasma Polymer Deposition in Advance of a Mask and down Pores The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter, DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Jannat N, Latif Al-Mufti R, Hussien A, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. Utilisation of nut shell wastes in Brick, Mortar and Concrete: A review Construction and Building Materials, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Shaik MM, Klakow D, Abdullah BM. 2024. Self-Supervised Adaptive Pre-Training of Multilingual Speech Models for Language and Dialect Identification ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) :11436-11440 DOI Publisher Url
Blatt A, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2023. Ending the Blind Flight: Analyzing the Impact of Acoustic and Lexical Factors on WAV2VEC 2.0 in Air-Traffic Control 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) :1-8 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Shaik MM, Klakow D. 2023. On the Nature of Discrete Speech Representations in Multilingual Self-supervised Models Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP :159-161 DOI Publisher Url
Steuer J, List J-M, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2023. Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP :96-109 DOI Publisher Url
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave AJ, Bras A, Cullen J. 2022. Human-Centred Approach in Industry 4.0: Lighting Comfort in the Workplace Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 335 LNNS :533-546 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah B, Klakow D. 2022. Analyzing the Representational Geometry of Acoustic Word Embeddings Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP :178-191 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah B, Zaitova I, Avgustinova T, Möbius B, Klakow D. 2021. How Familiar Does That Sound? Cross-Lingual Representational Similarity Analysis of Acoustic Word Embeddings Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP :407-419 DOI Publisher Url
Macher N, Abdullah BM, Brouwer H, Klakow D. 2021. Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop :16-22 DOI Publisher Url
Mayn A, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2021. Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop :96-102 DOI Publisher Url
Salesky E, Abdullah BM, Mielke S, Klyachko E, Serikov O, Ponti EM, Kumar R, Cotterell R, Vylomova E. 2021. SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP DOI Publisher Url
Karyono K, Abdullah BM, Cotgrave AJ, Armada Bras AM. 2020. A smart adaptive lighting system for a multifunctional room Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE, 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) Octobe DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Leo DG, Abdullah BM, Perry DC, Jones H. 2020. A Novel Joint Angle Measurement System to Monitor Hip Movement in Children with Hip Diseases Ahram T. ADVANCES IN HUMAN FACTORS IN WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND GAME DESIGN, 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics / AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and Wearable Technologies / AHFE International Conference on Game Design and Virtual Environments 973 :14-19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Mosbach M, Degaetano-Ortlieb S, Krielke M-P, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. 2020. A Closer Look at Linguistic Knowledge in Masked Language Models: The Case of Relative Clauses in American English Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics :771-787 DOI Publisher Url
Muradov M, Kot P, Ateeq M, Abdullah B, Shaw A, Hashim K, Al-Shamma'a A. 2019. Real-Time Detection of Plastic Shards in Cheese Using Microwave-Sensing Technique Proceedings, 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications 42 :54-54 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Picot H, Ateeq M, Abdullah B, Cullen J. 2019. Industry 4.0 – LabVIEW Based Industrial IoT Condition Monitoring System 2019 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Developments in eSystems Engineering 2019 Robotics, Sensors and Industry 4.0 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Sufian A, Abdullah B, Ateeq M, Wah R, Clements D. 2019. A roadmap towards the smart factory 2019 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Developments in eSystems Engineering 2019 Robotics, Sensors and Industry 4.0 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Picot HW, Ateeq M, Abdullah B, Cullen J. 2019. Industry 4.0 labview based industrial condition monitoring system for industrial iot system Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE, October-2019 :1020-1025 DOI Publisher Url
Karyono K, Pal M, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A. 2019. EnvironMoores: Efficient NoVel Intelligent Reliable OccupatioN Monitoring for IndOor human-comfORt adaptivE System Doctoral Academy Conference 2019: Community Public Url
Mason A, Muradov M, Abdullah B, Al-Shamma’a AI, Alvseike O. 2018. Rapid Non-Destructive Prediction of Water Activity in Dry-Cured Meat Proceedings of Eurosensors, Eurosensors 2018 Conference 2 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Mason A, Louis J, Greene J, Korostynska O, Cordova-Lopez LE, Abdullah B, Connell R, Hopkins J. 2017. Non-invasive measurement of blood lactate in humans using microwave sensors 2017 IEEE 1st Ukraine Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, UKRCON 2017 - Proceedings, :233-238 DOI Publisher Url
Mason A, Abdullah BM, Muradov M, Korostynska O, Al-Shamma'a AI, Bjarnadottir S, Lunde K, Alvseike O. 2017. Microwave Spectroscopy: Novel Cost-Effective Approach to Measure Drip Loss in Pork Loin 46th European Microwave Conference :76-79 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Mason A, Louis J, Greene J, Korostynska O, Cordova-Lopez LE, Abdullah B, Connell R, Hopkins J. 2017. Non-Invasive Measurement of Blood Lactate in Humans using Microwave Sensors 2017 IEEE FIRST UKRAINE CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (UKRCON), 1st IEEE Ukraine Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (UKRCON) :235-240 Author Url
Rahman H, Abdulaziz N, Abdulmalek MF, Soh PJ, Hasliza , Rahim A, Giman FN, Abdullah BM, Islam MT. 2016. Review of a dual band textile antenna 2016 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA), 2016 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA) :1-3 DOI Publisher Url
Muradov M, Mason A, Shaw A, Cullen J, Al-Shamma'a A, Abdullah B, Ateeq M. 2014. Real-time monitoring of meat drying process using microwave spectroscopy Eighth International Conference of Sensing Technology (ICST2014) :407-411 Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Mason A, Cullen JD, Al-Shamma'a AI. 2013. Development of a Predictive Water-Holding Capacity Method in Postmortem Longissimus Dorsi Muscle 2013 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SENSING TECHNOLOGY (ICST), 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST) :953-957 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Mason A, Cullen JD, Al-Shamma'a AI. 2013. Water-holding Capacity Assessment of Meat using an Electromagnetic Sensing Method 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL RF AND MICROWAVE CONFERENCE (RFM), IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM) :11-16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Abdullah B, Cullen J, Mason A, Al-Shamma’a AI, Hawkins CJ, Saunders M. 2012. An Investigation into the Potential of Microwave NDT for Structural Materials Mason A, Jayasundera KP, Bhattacharyya N, Mukhopadhyay SC. Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST2012) DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Mason A, Cullen JD, Al-Shamma'a AI. Water-holding capacity assessment of meat using an electromagnetic sensing method http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6747035#, IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM2013)
Karyono K, Abdullah B, Cotgrave A, Brás A. Experience and Memory Principle for Adaptive Indoor Thermal Comfort 11th International Conference on Intelligent Energy Management, Electronics, Electric & Thermal Power, Robotics and Automation (IEMERA 2020) DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Sufian A, Abdullah B, Ateeq M, Wah R, Clements D. A roadmap towards the smart factory, Developments in eSystems Engineering A roadmap towards the smart factory, Developments in eSystems Engineering
Krishnan A, Abdullah BM, Klakow D. On the Encoding of Gender in Transformer-based ASR Representations Interspeech 2024, Interspeech 2024 :3090-3094 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Shaik MM, Klakow D. Wave to Interlingua: Analyzing Representations of Multilingual Speech Transformers for Spoken Language Translation Interspeech 2024, Interspeech 2024 :362-366 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Shaik MM, Möbius B, Klakow D. An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Self-supervised Discrete Representations of Speech INTERSPEECH 2023, INTERSPEECH 2023 :2883-2887 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Möbius B, Klakow D. Integrating Form and Meaning: A Multi-Task Learning Model for Acoustic Word Embeddings Interspeech 2022, Interspeech 2022 :1876-1880 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Mosbach M, Zaitova I, Möbius B, Klakow D. Do Acoustic Word Embeddings Capture Phonological Similarity? An Empirical Study Interspeech 2021, Interspeech 2021 :4194-4198 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Avgustinova T, Möbius B, Klakow D. Cross-Domain Adaptation of Spoken Language Identification for Related Languages: The Curious Case of Slavic Languages Interspeech 2020, Interspeech 2020 :477-481 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Greene J, Abdullah B, Cullen J, Korostynska O, Louis JB, Mason A. 2019. Non-invasive Monitoring of Glycogen in Real-Time Using an Electromagnetic Sensor Modern Sensing Technologies DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Cullen JD, Korostynska O, Mason A, Al-Shamma’a AI. 2014. Assessing Water-Holding Capacity (WHC) of Meat Using Microwave Spectroscopy Mason A, Mukhopadhyay SC, Jayasundera KP, Bhattacharyya N. Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends I :117-140 Springer International Publishing 978-3-319-02317-5 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah BM, Cullen J, Mason A, Al-Shamma’a AI. 2014. A Novel Method for Monitoring Structural Metallic Materials Using Microwave NDT Mason A, Mukhopadhyay SC, Jayasundera KP, Bhattacharyya N. Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends I :161-180 Springer International Publishing 978-3-319-02317-5 DOI Publisher Url
Abdullah B. 2012. Monitoring of Welding Using Laser Diodes, Semiconductor Laser Diode Technology and Applications Semiconductor Laser Diode Technology and Applications IntechOpen 9789535105497 DOI Publisher Url