Dr Wasiq Khan

School of Computer Science and Mathematics

Dr. Wasiq KHAN is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Data Sciences within the Department of Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and has been serving as a Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at multiple International Universities (e.g., University of Anbar, Iraq). Wasiq received his B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Geography following an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Pakistan. At Bradford University UK, He received an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence for Board Games following by a Ph.D. in Speech Analysis & Intelligent Reasoning and a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (PGCHEP). He has also received an ILM Certificate for Leadership and Management from LJMU.

Wasiq has been leading several large-scale research projects as Senior Research Scientist and Consultant in collaborations with Academic Institutions and Industry across the globe. He is research active within the domain of Artificial Intelligence (Deep/Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition) and Data Science. Currently, Wasiq is leading on several ongoing research projects mostly covering Applied AI and Data science in diverse domains including: Law Enforcement & Public Safety (e.g., suspect identification, deep behaviour analysis), Deep facial analysis (e.g., deception detection, mental health), Autonomous environments (e.g., deep vision for blind people mobility aid), and Healthcare technologies (e.g., Huntington disease, Alzheimer disease, Autism pattern analysis etc.).

Wasiq has been publishing the research outcomes in prestigious Journals (e.g., NATURE Sci. Data; IEEE/ACM Transactions; ACM Computing Surveys; Pattern Recognition Elsevier etc.) and international conferences. He has been active in public engagements and impact raising activities such as news blogs & media, scientific festivals, scientific show cases, and public demonstrations. He is involved in editorial board member of several international Journals and organising committee member of several Conferences, and has been active reviewer for top-ranked Journals (e.g., IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, PLOS, Wiley's, MDPI etc.) and government funding bodies (e.g., UKRI/EPSRC, STFC, Innovate, and NIHR). Along with his research activities, Wasiq is fully involved in teaching, administrative roles and Ph.D supervisions. Wasiq has established academic citizenship within his research domain along with his Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE).


Research Interests:

- AI in Law Enforcement/Public Security & Privacy (e.g., Person identification, de-identification via video and gait analysis)
- AI in Healthcare Technologies (e.g., Gait analysis, Huntington disease, Autism patterns, Alzheimer's disease etc.,)
- Autonomous Environments (e.g., Outdoor mobility of visually impaired people)
- Deep Facial Analysis (e.g., deception detection, facial encoding etc.,).

Degrees

2021, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Leadership and Management Certificate (ILM)
2015, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, PhD (Speech Processing & Intelligent Reasoning)
2013, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning (PGCHEP)
2008, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, MSc Artificial Intelligence for Board Games
2006, COMSATS University, Pakistan, MSc in Computer Science
2004, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, BSc in Maths, Physics and Geography

Certifications

2021, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Leadership and Management Certificate (ILM)
2012, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Academic appointments

Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, The University of Anbar, 2022 - present
Senior Academic in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Computer Science, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Project Technical Manager & Lead Researcher, Mathematics, Computing and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017 - 2019
PostDoc Research Associate, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Central Lancashire, 2014 - 2017
Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Reading University, 2013 - 2014
Assistant Lecturer/Senior Lab Demonstrator, Computer Science, University of Bradford, 2010 - 2013

Highlighted publications

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain A. 2023. Human Body Pose Estimation for Gait Identification: A Comprehensive Survey of Datasets and Models ACM Computing Surveys, 55 :1-42 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Waraich A, Hussain AJ. 2023. A diverse and multi-modal gait dataset of indoor and outdoor walks acquired using multiple cameras and sensors Scientific Data, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Crocket K, Oshea J, Hussain A, Khan B. 2021. Deception in the Eyes of Deceiver: A Computer Vision and Machine Learning Based Automated Deception Detection Expert Systems with Applications, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kuru K, Ansell D, Khan W, HALIL YETGIN. 2019. Analysis and Optimization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms in Logistics: An Intelligent Delivery Platform IEEE Access, 7 :15804-15831 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Alatrany AS, Khan W, Hussain AJ, Mustafina J, Al-Jumeily D. Transfer Learning for Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Genome Wide Data IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Journal article

Abd DH, Khan W, Khan B, Alharbe N, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain A. 2023. Categorization of Arabic posts using Artificial Neural Network and hash features Journal of King Saud University - Science, 35 DOI Publisher Url

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain A. 2023. Human Body Pose Estimation for Gait Identification: A Comprehensive Survey of Datasets and Models ACM Computing Surveys, 55 :1-42 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Waraich A, Hussain AJ. 2023. A diverse and multi-modal gait dataset of indoor and outdoor walks acquired using multiple cameras and sensors Scientific Data, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Ahmed AA, Hasan MK, Jaber MM, Al-ghuribi SM, Abd DH, Khan W, Sadiq AT, Hussain A. 2023. Extremism Arabic Text Detection using Rough Set Theory: Designing a Novel Approach IEEE Access, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Hussain A, Muhammad Khan B, Crockett K. 2023. Outdoor mobility aid for People with visual impairment: Obstacle detection and responsive framework for the scene perception during the outdoor mobility of people with visual impairment Expert Systems with Applications, 228 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Alatrany AS, Khan W, Hussain A, Al-Jumeily D. 2023. Wide and deep learning based approaches for classification of Alzheimer's disease using genome-wide association studies Hammad M. PLoS One, 18 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Shehada D, Turky A, Khan W, Khan B, Hussain A. 2023. A Lightweight Facial Emotion Recognition System Using Partial Transfer Learning for Visually Impaired People IEEE Access, 11 :36961-36969 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Hussien A, Khan W, Hussain A, Liatsis P, Al-Shamma'a A, Al-Jumeily D. 2023. Predicting energy performances of buildings' envelope wall materials via the random forest algorithm Journal of Building Engineering, 69 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Mohammed MS, Abduljabar AM, Faisal MM, Mahmmod BM, Abdulhussain SH, Khan W, Liatsis P, Hussain A. 2023. Low-cost autonomous car level 2: Design and implementation for conventional vehicles Results in Engineering, 17 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Al-khazraji LR, Mohammed MA, Abd DH, Khan W, Khan B, Hussain AJ. 2023. Image dataset of important grape varieties in the commercial and consumer market Data in Brief, 47 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Alaskar H, Sbaï Z, Khan W, Hussain A, Alrawais A. 2022. Intelligent techniques for deception detection: a survey and critical study Soft Computing, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Kleanthous N, Hussain A, Sneddon J, Khan W, Khan B, Aung Z, Liatsis P. 2022. Towards a Virtual Fencing System: Training Domestic Sheep Using Audio Stimuli Animals, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Khan BM, Yasen S, Al-Dahiri A, Al-Jumeily D, Dajani K, Hussain A. 2022. COVID-19 Vaccination and Mental Stress within Diverse Sociodemographic Groups International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 :12932-12932 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Waraich A, Hussain AJ. 2022. Gait Identification Using Limb Joint Movement and Deep Machine Learning IEEE Access, 10 :100113-100127 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Bethell EJ, Khan W, Hussain A. 2022. A deep transfer learning model for head pose estimation in rhesus macaques during cognitive tasks: towards a nonrestraint noninvasive 3Rs approach Applied Animal Behaviour Science, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Flora J, Khan W, Jin J, Jin D, Hussain A, Dajani K, Khan B. 2022. Usefulness of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for Machine-Learning Based Vaccine Research: A Case Study for COVID-19 Vaccines International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 :8235 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Vohra R, Hussain A, Dudyala AK, Pahareeya J, Khan W. 2022. Multi-class classification algorithms for the diagnosis of anemia in an outpatient clinical setting PLoS One, 17 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kleanthous N, Hussain A, Khan W, Sneddon J, Liatsis P. 2022. Deep transfer learning in sheep activity recognition using accelerometer data Expert Systems with Applications, 207 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Ghareeb S, Hussain A, Al-Jumeily D, Khan W, Al Jumeily R, Baker T, Al Shammaa A, Khalaf M. 2022. Evaluating student levelling based on machine learning model’s performance Discover Internet of Things, 2 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Kleanthous N, Hussain AJ, Khan W, Sneddon J, Al-Shamma'a A, Liatsis P. 2022. A survey of machine learning approaches in animal behaviour Neurocomputing, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Shams F, Abbas A, Khan W, Khan US, Nawaz R. 2022. A death, infection, and recovery (DIR) model to forecast the COVID-19 spread. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khalil S, Hassan A, Alaskar H, Khan W, Hussain A. 2021. Fuzzy Logical Algebra and Study of the Effectiveness of Medications for COVID-19 Mathematics, 9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kuru K, Khan W. 2021. A Framework for the Synergistic Integration of Fully Autonomous Ground Vehicles With Smart City IEEE Access, 9 :923-948 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Alusi S, Tawfik H, Hussain A. 2021. The relationship between non-motor features and weight-loss in the premanifest stage of Huntington's disease PLoS One, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Crocket K, Oshea J, Hussain A, Khan B. 2021. Deception in the Eyes of Deceiver: A Computer Vision and Machine Learning Based Automated Deception Detection Expert Systems with Applications, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Ghareeb S, Hussain A, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Baker T, Al Jumeily R. 2021. Dataset of student level prediction in UAE. Data in Brief, 35 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Hussain A, Alaskar H, Baker T, Ghali F, Al-Jumeily D, Al-Shamma’a AI. 2020. Prediction of Flood Severity Level Via Processing IoT Sensor Data Using Data Science Approach IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 3 :10-15 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Alaskar H, Hussain AJ, Khan W, Tawfik H, Trevorrow P, Liatsis P, Sbaï Z. 2020. A data science approach for reliable classification of neuro-degenerative diseases using gait patterns Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 6 :233-247 DOI Publisher Url

Khan W, Hussain A, Khan SA, Al-Jumailey M, Nawaz R. 2020. Association Learning Between the COVID-19 Infections and Global Demographic Characteristics Using the Class Rule Mining and Pattern Matching Royal Society Open Science, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kleanthous N, Hussain A, Khan W, Liatsis P. 2020. A new machine learning based approach to predict Freezing of Gait Pattern Recognition Letters, 140 :119-126 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Mohammed Almansor MA, Zhang C, Khan W, Hussain A, Alhusaini N. 2020. Cross Lingual Sentiment Analysis: A Clustering-Based Bee Colony Instance Selection and Target-Based Feature Weighting Approach Sensors, 20 :5276-5276 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Hussain A, Kuru K, Al-askar H. 2020. Pupil Localisation and Eye Centre Estimation using Machine Learning and Computer Vision Sensors, 20 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khalaf M, Alaskar H, Hussain AJ, Baker T, Maamar Z, Buyya R, Liatsis P, Khan W, Tawfik H, Al-Jumeily D. 2020. IoT-enabled Flood Severity Prediction via Ensemble Machine Learning Models IEEE Access, 8 :70375-70386 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Ahmed Z, Hussain A, Khan W, Baker T, Al-Askar H, Lunn J, Liatsis P, Al-Jumeily D, Al-Shabandar R. 2020. Lossy and Lossless Video Frame Compression: A Novel Approach for the High-Temporal Video Data Analytics Remote Sensing, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kuru K, Ansell D, Khan W, HALIL YETGIN. 2019. Analysis and Optimization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms in Logistics: An Intelligent Delivery Platform IEEE Access, 7 :15804-15831 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Badii A. 2019. Pathological Gait Abnormality Detection and Segmentation by Processing the Hip Joints Motion Data to Support Mobile Gait Rehabilitation Research in C Medical & Engineering Sciences, 07 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Crockett K, Bilal M. 2018. Adaptive framing based similarity measurement between time warped speech signals using Kalman filter International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, 21 :343-354 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Bilal M, Khan W, Muggleton J, Rustighi E, Jenks H, Pennock SR, Atkins PR, Cohn A. 2018. Inferring the most probable maps of underground utilities using Bayesian mapping model Journal of Applied Geophysics, 150 :52-66 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kuru K, Khan W. 2018. Novel hybrid object-based non-parametric clustering approach for grouping similar objects in specific visual domains Applied Soft Computing, 62 :667-701 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Ansell D, Kuru K, Bilal M. 2018. Flight Guardian: Autonomous Flight Safety Improvement by Monitoring Aircraft Cockpit Instruments Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, AIAA, 15 :203-214 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Kuru K. 2017. An Intelligent System for Spoken Term Detection That Uses Belief Combination IEEE Intelligent Systems, 32 :70-79 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Holton R. 2015. Time warped continuous speech signal matching using Kalman filter International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, 18 :419-431 DOI Publisher Url

Khan W, Badii A, Khan A, et al . 2014. SITUATION ASSESSMENT THROUGH MULTI-MODAL SENSING OF DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS TO SUPPORT COGNITIVE ROBOT CONTROL Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering, 12 :251-260

Bilal M, Chan P, Khan W, Khan W. 2013. Cooperative Network for Vehicular Communications: Game Theoretic Distribution of Reward among Contributing Vehicles Cyber Journals: Journal of Selected Areas in Telecommunications (JSAT), 03 :11-25 Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Holton R. Decision Support System for Keyword Spotting Using Theory of Evidence International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, 8 :22-30 DOI Publisher Url

Alatrany AS, Khan W, Hussain AJ, Mustafina J, Al-Jumeily D. Transfer Learning for Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Genome Wide Data IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

preprint

Topham LK, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain A. 2023. Human Body Pose Estimation for Gait Identification: A Comprehensive Survey of Datasets and Models Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Khan BM, Yasen S, Al-Dahiri A, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain A. 2022. Covid-19 Vaccination and Mental Stress within Diverse Socio-demographic Groups MDPI AG DOI Publisher Url

Chapters

Jain A, Harper M, Jayabalan M, Mustafina J, Khan W, Liatsis P, Ismail NL, Al-Jumeily OBE D. 2023. Autonomous Driving Through Road Segmentation Based on Computer Vision Techniques Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 165 :117-128 DOI Publisher Url

Satpute S, Jayabalan M, Kolivand H, Assi J, Aldhaibani OA, Liatsis P, Daud P, Al-Ataby A, Khan W, Kaky A, Al-Sudani S, Mahyoub M. 2023. Loan Default Forecasting Using StackNet Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 165 :434-447 DOI Publisher Url

Topham L, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Waraich A, Hussain A. 2022. Gait Identification Using Hip Joint Movement and Deep Machine Learning 13395 LNAI :220-233 9783031138317 DOI Publisher Url

Keeley C, James O, Wasiq K. 2019. Reconciling Adapted Psychological Profiling with the New European Data Protection Legislation’ Springer DOI Publisher Url

Conference publication

Madi M, Basha Y, Albadersawi Y, Alenezi F, Mahmoud SA, Abd DH, Al-Jumeily D, Khan W, Hussien AJ. 2023. Camel Detection and Monitoring Using Image Processing and IoT Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE, 2023-January :305-308 DOI Publisher Url

Marimbire B, Al-Nahari A, Ahmadzai WK, Al-Jumeily D, Khan W. 2023. Predicting the Effectiveness of 'Stop and Search' Police Interventions Using Advanced Data Analytics Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE, 2023-January :202-208 DOI Publisher Url

Al Roken N, Hussain A, Shahin I, Turky A, Khan B, Khan W. 2023. Unsupervised Arabic Speech Embedding Model for Speaker Identification Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023-June DOI Publisher Url

Khan W, Topham L, Khan B, Yasen S, Al-Dahiri A, Vellasco M, Kolivand H, Hussain A. 2022. Acceptance and Perception of Covid-19 Vaccination for Children 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Al-Jumaili Z, Bassiouny T, Alanezi A, Khan W, Al-Jumeily D, Hussain AJ. 2022. Classification of Spoken English Accents Using Deep Learning and Speech Analysis Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13395 LNAI :277-287 DOI Publisher Url

Harper M, Ghali F, Khan W. 2022. Comparison of Subjective and Physiological Stress Levels in Home and Office Work Environments Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13395 LNAI :183-197 DOI Publisher Url

Abd DH, Khan W, Thamer KA, Hussain AJ. 2021. Arabic Light Stemmer Based on ISRI Stemmer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12838 LNAI :32-45 DOI Publisher Url

Faisal MM, Mohammed MS, Abduljabar AM, Abdulhussain SH, Mahmmod BM, Khan W, Hussain A. 2021. Object Detection and Distance Measurement using AI Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE, 2021-December :559-565 DOI Publisher Url

Natasa K, Hussain A, Khan W, Sneddon J, Mason A. 2020. Feature Extraction and Random Forest to Identify Sheep Behavior from Accelerometer Data Intelligent Computing Methodologies, ICIC 2020 12465 :408-419 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Alshabandar R, Hussain A, Keight R, Khan W. 2020. Students Performance Prediction in Online Courses Using Machine Learning Algorithms 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan W, Hussain A, KHAN B, Shamsa TB, Nawaz R. 2019. Novel Framework for Outdoor Mobility Assistance and Auditory Display for Visually Impaired People 12th International Conference on the Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE2019: Robotics, Sensors, Data Science and Industry 4.0.) DOI Author Url Publisher Url

O'Shea J, Crocket K, Khan W, Bandar Z. 2018. A hybrid model combining neural networks and decision tree for comprehension detection 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) DOI Author Url Publisher Url

O'Shea J, Crockett K, Khan W, Kindynis P, Antoniades A, Boultadakis G. 2018. Intelligent Deception Detection through Machine Based Interviewing 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) DOI Publisher Url

Crockett K, Stoklas J, O’Shea J, Krügel T, Khan W. 2018. Adapted Psychological Profiling verses the right to an explainable decision IJCCI 2018 - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, :5-14

Khan W, Ansell D, Kuru K, Amino M. 2016. Automated aircraft instrument reading using real time video analysis 2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS) :416-420 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W. 2014. A Time Effective Approach for Vector Similarity Measurement Based on Vector Addition http://psrcentre.org/images/extraimages/6%20114026.pdf, 3rd International Conference on Power, Control and VLSI Engineering (ICPCVE'2014) :21-27 Publisher Url

Khan W, Jiang P, Holton R. 2014. Word Spotting in Continuous Speech Using Wavelet Transform 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRO/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (EIT), IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT) :275-279 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Khan W, Jiang P, Chan P. 2012. Word recognition in continuous speech with background noise based on posterior probability measure IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology, DOI Publisher Url

Bilal M, Asfand-e-Yar , Mockford S, Khan W, Awan I. 2012. Trace saver: A Tool for Network Service Improvement and Personalised Analysis of User Centric Statistics Barsoum N, Faiman D, Vasant P. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON POWER CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION, 6th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization 1499 :215-221 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Crocket K, Oshea J, Khan W. Automated Deception Detection of Males and Females From Non-Verbal Facial Micro-Gestures IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Khan S, Khan W, Hussain A. Phishing Attacks and Websites Classification Using Machine Learning and Multiple Datasets (A Comparative Analysis) ICIC, 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Computing DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Dataset

Topham L, Khan W. 2022. 360 Degree Gait capture: A diverse and multi-modal gait dataset of indoor and outdoor walks acquired using multiple video cameras and sensors DOI Public Url

Khan W, Nawaz F, Yasen S, Hussain A. 2020. Face Mask Detection Video Dataset DOI Publisher Url

Khan W, Hussain A, Nawaz F. 2020. Video Dataset for COVID-19 Social Distancing and Human Detection Validation DOI Publisher Url

Industrial connections:

Naimuri Ltd, Salford, External Consultant, Security Applications of AI. 2023

Happydays group Ltd, Predictive and Prescriptive AI tools. 2023

Elsoms Seeds Ltd, Grant application development (for Innovate UK funds), https://elsoms.com/about-us/. 2023

Naimuri, TAG Event, Other research projects, https://naimuri.com/. 2022

European Dynamics, iBorderCtrl; https://www.iborderctrl.eu/ Technical Manager & Lead researcher, https://www.eurodyn.com/. 2017

Silent Talker, iBorderCtrl, https://www.iborderctrl.eu/. 2017

Stremble Ltd., Germany, iBorderCtrl/Lead Researcher, https://stremble.com/;%20https://www.iborderctrl.eu/. 2017

Global Material Solutions, Intelligent Property Management Agent Chief Technology Consultant, http://www.globalmaterialsolutions.co.uk/. 2016

McLaren Technology Center, Flight Guardian. 2014

The Great Circle, Flight Guardian. 2014

Research Grants Awarded:

Innovate UK, Publishing People – Investigating AI’s ability to preserve - and facilitate interaction with - the knowledge, experience and specialism of industry experts, EDEN FIFTYONE LTD, Grant value (£): 40000, Duration of research project: 6 months. 2023

Home Office (ACE), Applied predictive analytics in public security, Naimuri Ltd, Grant value (£): 50000, Duration of research project: 4 months. 2023

University of Sharjah, Furthering the Deception detection techniques, Prof. Abir Hussain, Grant value (£): 10000, Duration of research project: 1 year. 2022

British Council, Going Global Partnerships: UK – Malaysia – ASEAN +3 Catalyst Grants for Enhancing Graduate Employability, Dhiya Al-Jumeily OBE; Dr. Atif Waraich; Ms Jan Lunn; Prof Jin Wang; Prof Mike Riley; Dr. Helen McCormack, Grant value (£): 50000, Duration of research project: 12 months. 2021

Liverpool John Moores University, Heterogeneous data processing for obstacle identification and recognition in real environment, Grant value (£): 70000, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2019

Manchester metropolitan University, Gender Study in deception detection systems, Dr Keeley Crockett, Grant value (£): 2000, Duration of research project: 1 year. 2019

Manchester Metropolitan University, Automated deception detection using facial micro-gestures, Dr Keeley Crockett, Grant value (£): 7300, Duration of research project: 1 year. 2018

External committees:

International Programme Committee Member, 19th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Conference (VISAPP 2024), Programme Committee Member, https://visapp.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx. 2023

Visiting Professor, Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq, Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence. 2023

Conference presentation:

Unsupervised Arabic Speech Embedding Model for Speaker Identification, IJCNN, IEEE, Australia, Oral presentation. 2023

Covid-19 Vaccination Perception and Acceptability for Children, IJCNN, IEEE, Italy, Poster presentation. 2022

A Framework: Intelligent Outdoor Mobility Assistance for Visually Impaired People, Developments in eSystems Engineering Conference Series, Kazan, Russia, Oral presentation. 2019

A Time Effective Approach for Vector Similarity Measurement Based on Vector Addition, 3rd International Conference on Power, Control and VLSI Engineering (ICPCVE'2014) Jan. 5-6, 2014 Dubai (UAE), UAE, Oral presentation.

Automated aircraft instrument reading using real time video analysis, 2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Sofia, Bulgaria, Oral presentation.

Key Word Spotting in Speech, IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, WI, USA, Oral presentation.

Spoken Term Detection in Background Noise, IEEE International Conference, USA, Oral presentation.

Editorial boards:

Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, Frontier (SI: Applied AI in Healthcare), Guest Editor (Special Issue: Applied AI in Healthcare), http://jai.front-sci.com/index.php/jai. 2023

Frontiers (Frontiers in Computer Science), Editorial Board Member, https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science. 2023

MDPI (Big Data & Cognitive Computing), Advisor, Editorial board member, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC. 2021

Membership of professional bodies:

Senior Member, IEEE, IEEE, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085893097. 2023

Member, ACM, https://cacm.acm.org/. 2022

Academic Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 2017

Other invited event:

TAG (Security challenge), Naimuri Ltd., Salford, UK, Keynote talk on AI/DL in Security Domain. 2023

TAG [Detecting obscure obstacles in satellite imagery], Salford, UK, Applied AI and Data Analytics to solve real world challenges. 2023

Session Chair, Russia, Session Chair, Developments in eSystems Engineering Conference Series, 2019. 2019

Manchester Science Festival, Manchester, Chairing Committee. 2018

Best of UCLan, Preston, Research showcase. 2015

Teaching qualification:

Leadership & Coaching (ILM L4 Certificate). 2022

Fellow of Higher Education Academy. 2015

Conference organisation:

International Conference On DATA SCIENCE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, Technical Committee Member, https://www.icdaset.com/. 2022

International Conference, Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSe), IEEE, Technical Advisor, Artificial Intelligence, https://dese.org.uk/. 2020

Other Professional Activity:

Visiting Professor of AI (The University of Anbar, Iraq). 2022

Reviewer for: 1) Top ranked Journals including IEEE Transactions on Emerging Technologies, AiAA Aerospace Information Systems, Journal of Aircrafts, IEEE Int. Sys Conference, Journal of Sciences etc. 2) Government funding bodies including EPSRC, NIHR, STFC 3) International conferences invited speaker, session chair & reviewer.

External collaboration:

Malaysia University, Prof. Heri et. al. 2022

Supplywell Ltd, UK, Rich Salt. 2021

Teesside University, UK, Dr Alaa Al-Kafri. 2021

University of Sharjah, UAE, Dr Thar Baker. 2021

NUST, Pakistan, Dr Sajjad Ali. 2021

COMSATS University, Pakistan, Dr Faisal Nawaz. 2020

Khalifa University, UAE, Prof. Panos Liatsis. 2020

Prince Abd-Sattam University, KSA, Dr Haya Al-Askar. 2020

https://www.silent-talker.com/, Silent Talker Ltd, Dr James D Oshea. 2020

https://www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/dr-kaya-kuru.php, University of Central Lancashire, Dr Kaya Kuru. 2019

University of California, Los Angeles, Dr Bilal M KHAN. 2019

The Manchester University, Dr Tariq Aslam. 2019

https://www.iborderctrl.eu/, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dr Keeley Crocket, Dr James D Oshea. 2019

https://www.reading.ac.uk/computer-science/dcs-bio-a-badii.aspx, Reading University, Prof Atta Badi. 2018

San Bernardino, US, Dr Bilal Khan.

Media Coverage:

Detecting Deception, ACM News, Communications of the ACM 2021

Virtual Border Guard/iBorderCtrl research Flight Guardian research; Research blogs/ The Conversation

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