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Dr. Amir Hussain’s Research Interests, Grants & Projects

Dr. Hussain holds one international patent and has authored over 100 research-publications to-date in various professional journals, books and refereed international Conference proceedings. His personal research interests include:
Novel inter-disciplinary research for modeling and control of complex systems, neurobiologically motivated cognitive modeling and control, Computational Intelligence techniques and applications (including self-organizing swarm systems, multi-agent systems and artificial immune systems), non-linear speech signal and image processing, Bio-informatics, Data mining, Adaptive non-linear & higher-order signal processing, Early auditory processing modeling, bio-medical applications and related clinical research, Digital & Mobile (Tele)Communications, Intelligent decision support and geographical information systems.

He is involved in nationally and European funded research projects and programs in some of the above areas. Locally, he heads the Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory and is a member of the Computational Intelligence Research Group, the Telecommunications Engineering Research Group, the Bio-informatics Research Group, the inter-disciplinary Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (CCCN), and leads the Intelligent Control Systems and Hearing Research Laboratories.

Dr. Amir Hussain’s RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS & PROJECTS:

Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-ordinator of the UK Government’s Engineering & Physical Research Council (EPSRC) funded Research Cluster/Network project (~£60k) on "Novel Computation: Towards Multiple-Model based Learning Control Paradigms for Complex Systems". The aim of this international Research Network (involving over a dozen collaborating academic and industrial partners) was to lead and advance world-class interdisciplinary research in the modeling and control of complex systems through the development of novel computational paradigms.
Stirling PI of a new BBSRC/EPSRC funded (~£100k) Network project (led by Leeds University) on “Modeling, Analysis and Control of Immune Systems”. Stirling’s role is to develop new computational and mathematical/analytical models of the immune system. A range natural/biologically inspired computing techniques are being investigated for modeling immune systems, including evolutionary algorithms (e.g. genetic algorithms), self-organizing systems, artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems, swarm systems, artificial life, cellular automata and multi-agent systems. In addition, stochastic process algebra, particle filtering and markov-chain monte carlo methods are being explored.
Stirling PI and grant holder for the European Science Foundation (ESF) funded (~EUR320k) Co-operation in Science & Technology (COST) 2102 Networked Research project: “Verbal and non-verbal communication behaviour”, involving 27 participating EU countries. Stirling’s role is to develop new cognitive multi-modal (audio-visual) speech processing tools with applications to hearing aids and speech recognition. The Network project aims to develop new speech processing techniques that can drive the implementation of the next generation of telecommunication services, such as, remote health monitoring systems, interactive dialogue systems and intelligent avatars.
Stirling Project Manager/PI of an industry funded (~£30k) PhD Research Project on: “Intelligent Modeling & Control of Complex Systems”. The aim of this project is to develop neurobiologically motivated cognitive control systems, including intelligent multiple-controller frameworks, with applications to complex autonomous vehicles, and the process control industry.
Stirling Project Manager/Principal Investigator (EU Partner) for the European Commission (EC) funded (~EUR400k) Project: Towards an intelligent web-based Geographic Information System for Cultural & Environmental Information Exchange (ICEIE).
Principal Investigator/Grant Holder of various other small research grants and scholarships (to total value of ~EUR60k) awarded by various organizations, including the UK Royal Society, European Science Foundation (ESF), Universities of Dundee, Strathclyde, Stirling and the Pakistan Higher Education Commission (1999-present).

Post/doctoral Research Fellows Supervised:

Simone Ciffani,

Visiting Research Fellow in the area of non-linear speech signal processing, funded by the University of Ancona, Italy (2006)

Dr. Nhamo Mtetwa, Javed Muhammad, Rashed Muhammed, Lloyd Oteniya, Gregor Kiddie (Neurocomputing Research Group)

Research Fellows, funded by the European Commission’s EU IT & C Project for developing an intelligent decision support system, 2004-2005.

Dr. Mohamed Chetouani (Hearing Research Laboratory) and Jaber Juntu (Neurocomputing Research Group)

Visiting Research Fellows, funded by the Faculty Research Awards (2005) working on the projects: “Non-linear speech processing using novel sub-band predictor models” and “Support-Vector Machine for Signal Processing & Control Applications” respectively.

Dr. Ali Zayed (Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience) & Dr. Leonardo Giovanini (based at Industrial Control Centre, Strathclyde University)

Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Funded by the UK Government's EPSRC funded (~ EUR100k) novel Research Cluster/Network project on "Towards Multiple-Model based Learning Control Paradigms for Complex Systems", 2003-2004

Stefano Squartini (Natural Computing Research Group)

Visiting Research Fellow, funded by the Faculty Research Award (2003) working on "Computational Intelligence Techniques for non-linear Signal-Processing applications"

Ph.D/M.Phil Projects/Candidates Supervised:

Intelligent Control for Complex Systems Engineering, (Principal Supervisor for Rudwan Abdullah, Oct 2004 – 2007, PhD awarded Dec 2007)
New Unsupervised Clustering Techniques & Applications (Principal Supervisor for Ahsan Abdullah, Oct 2004 – 2007, PhD awarded Dec 2007)
New Linear & Non-linear Computational Intelligence Techniques for Adaptive Control Engineering (Principal Supervisor for Ali Zayed, March 2002 – 2005, PhD awarded July 2005)
Location Estimation in Cellular Communications Networks using Neural Networks (Principal Supervisor for Javed Muhammad, part-time, 2001-2007, M.Phil awarded June 2007)
Stochastic Resonance in Neural Networks and their FPGA-based hardware implementations (Co-supervisor for N. Mtetwa, 2000-2003, PhD awarded July 2003)
A mutual information measure classifier - combining Neural Network Learning and Expert Systems (Co-supervisor for C. Thomas, 2000-2005, PhD awarded July 2005)