Dr. Amir Hussain’s EXTERNAL ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

EXTERNAL ACADEMIC RECOGNITION, DISTINCTION & AWARDS:

 

  • Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s new journal: Cognitive Computation
  • IEEE Chapter Chair, UK & Republic of Ireland Section: IEEE Industry Applications Society (2005-present)
  • Associate Editor for the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, InderScience Publishers, UK/Switzerland.
  • Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics & Automation, IASTED / ACTA Press, Canada/USA
  • Associate Editor for the International Journal of Control & Intelligent Systems, IASTED /  ACTA Press, Canada/USA
  • Invited Speaker at the 2nd IEE/IEEE/EPSRC/ICC Workshop on “Intelligent Control Design for Industrial Applications”, 5-6 April 2006.
  • Invited Speaker/Lecturer at the XI  EURASIP / ESF / COST-277 International Summer School on Neural Networks: Non-linear Speech Processing, held in I.I.A.S.S., Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 13-17 Sep 2004.
  • Invited Lecturer at the ESF / EURASIP International Workshop on Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours, held in , Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007
  • Invited Independent Expert for the European Commission’s (EC) 6th & 7th Research Framework Programmes
  • General Co-Chair of the  IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS’2006), Islamabad, 22-23 April 2006
  • Invited IEE Lecture on “Biologically Inspired Computing”, Glasgow, 23 Feb 2005.
  • General Co-Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS’2006) held in Lesvos, Greece, 10-14 Oct 2006.
  • General Co-Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS’2008) to be held in Sau Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008.
  • Publications Chair of the International UKACC Control Conference to be held in Manchester, 2-4 Sep, 2008.
  • Invited International Programme Committee member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) - the world’s premier annual neural networks conference -  2007, 2008
  • Invited International Programme Committee member, 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN), Sep 24-28, Beijing, China, 2008
  • Invited Session Chair: “Artificial Neural Networks in Control”, Sixth International Control Conference (ICC 2006), Glasgow, 30 Aug – 1 Sep 2006
  • Technical Referee & Reviewer for ten professional journals, including the IEEE Transactions on: Signal Processing, Speech & Audio Processing, Systems Man and Cybernetics, Automatic Control Systems, Neural Networks, and IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Electronics Letters.
  • Invited Guest Editor for:
    1. Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier) Special Issue on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2004) - jointly with I. Alexander (Imperial College, London) &L.Smith (Stirling)
    2. Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier) Special Issue on IEEE ICEIS 2006 - jointly with S. Fiori (Italy), Fukushima (Japan)
    3. Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier) Special Issue on BICS 2006 - jointly with I. Alexander, L. Smith & R. Chrisley (Sussex, UK)
    4. Speech Communication (Elsevier) Special Issue on: “Non-linear and Non-conventional Speech Processing”, 2008 – jointly with M. Chetouani, J.Zarader, B.Gas (France), M. Faundez (Spain), K.Paliwal (US)
    5. International Journal of Control & Intelligent Systems Special Issue on “Non-linear Speech Processing Techniques and Applications”, Vol.30, 2002;
    6. International Journal of Robotics and Automation Special Issue on “Neuromorphic Systems”, Vol.19, 2004 (jointly L.Smith, University of Stirling)
    7. International Journal of Control & Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Adaptive Non-linear PID Control Techniques & Application, Vol.32, 2005 (jointly with M.Grimble, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)
  • Consultant to a number of international companies since 1995, including Industrial Control Systems Ltd. (UK), Star Enterprises Ltd. (UK).
  • Invited Expert member & official UK Representative  to the Management Committee of a new European Science Foundation (ESF) funded Concerted Research (COST) Action Program (involving 26 other collaborating Scientists from 13 EC states) titled: “Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication” (ESF COST-2102, 2006-2010)
  • Invited Expert member and official UK representative to the Management Committee of a ESF funded (over EUR3 million) Concerted Research (COST) Action Program (involving 27 other collaborating Scientists from 16 EC states) on "Non-linear Speech Processing", which aimed to improve the actual voice services related to telecommunications systems through the use of non-linear speech processing techniques (ESF COST-277, 2001-2005);
  • Expert member and official UK representative to the Management Committee of a ESF funded (over EUR 12 million) Concerted Research (COST) Action Program on "Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunications" (EC COST-278, 2001-2005);
  • Invited Speaker, Session Chairperson and member of International Technical/Scientific Programme Committees at various international Conferences;
  • Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Invited External PhD Examiner for: University of Newcastle (UK), University of Bradford (UK), Massey University at Auckland (New Zealand), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS - Pakistan), Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (Islamabad, Pakistan), National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad.