Brief Biography

  • Amir Hussain graduated with a BEng in Electronic & Electrical Engineering in 1992, from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, with the highest 1st Class Honours of the year (obtaining average marks of ~86%), for which he was awarded the Professor Maclean Memorial Medal of Distinction.
    • The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) at Strathclyde University is the largest of its kind in Scotland. It is also the highest rated EEE department in Scotland and one of the two EEE departments in the UK in the top 5 of the Guardian University guide for both research and teaching.
  • From 1992-1995, he worked as a University of Strathclyde sponsored Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant and was awarded his PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering in Dec 1996.
    • His PhD Thesis was titled "Novel Artificial Neural-Network Architectures & Algorithms for Non-linear Dynamical System Modeling & Digital Communications Applications".
  • From Jan 1996-1998, he worked as a post-doctoral Research Fellow funded by the UK Government's Engineering Research Council (EPSRC), at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Paisley, Scotland, UK.
    • He worked on developing "New multi-sensor non-linear signal-processing schemes for adaptive speech-estimation in real time-varying environments".

·        From 1998-2000, he was employed as an academic staff member of the Department of Applied Computing Science at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

    • At Dundee University, he also worked as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) funded Dundee Satellite Receiving Station Research Group.

 

·        Since 2000, he is working as a senior academic staff member in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, where he Heads both the Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory (ICSL), the Hearing Research Laboratory (HRL) and is also researching as part of the multi-disciplinary research Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (CCCN), and the Stirling Mathematical Ecology Research Group (SMERG)

 

    • Stirling University has been ranked first in the UK for widening access to higher education, low drop-out rates and high standards of teaching and research.
  • Visiting Appointments:

1.      In summer 1999 and 2002, he was an invited Visiting Professor at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Pakistan, and the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, respectively.

    1. In summer 2004, he was a Visiting/Adjunct Research Professor at Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU) Islamabad, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Communications & Signal Processing., Strathclyde University in Glasgow, UK.
    2. In summer 2005 and 2007 he was an invited Visiting Professor and international Consultant for the Pakistan Higher Education Commission, Quality Assurance Program (www.hec.gov.pk)