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Hazrat Ali
Researcher in Deep Learning and Medical Imaging Best Researcher Award by COMSATS University 2020/2021 , DAAD AI-Net Fellow 2021, Young Researcher at Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2021 and 2017, Erasmus Mundus Scholar 2014, HEC Scholar, IBRO Alumnus, Ex-Member Advisory Committee on Science & Technology projects @ Directorate of Science & Technology, Govt. of KPK, Pakistan. Signal Processing and Machine Learning Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus My webpage @ COMSATS University (old page) My Webpage @ Umea University Senior Member IEEE, HEC Approved PhD Supervisor, Associate Editor @ IEEE Access Associate Editor @ IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter Book Editor @ Springer Nature |
Email:
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News
February 2024 I am PC member at ECAI 2024 conference.
February 2024 I am PC member at MICCAI 2024 conference.
February 2024 I am PC member at IEEE CVPR Workshop on WiCV2024.
January 2024 I am PC member at IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2024.
January 2024 I am PC Chair Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, 2024.
December 2023 Our edited book Advances in Deep Generative Models for Medical Artificial Intelligence is now published and available on Springer Nature https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46341-9
September 2023 Our edited book has the ISBN and landing page on Springer https://link.springer.com/book/9783031463402
August 2023 I am Reviewer Mentor at the 2023 Machine Learning 4 Health Symposium
June 2023 Our work is featured on QuantaMagazine - an independent science magazine of the Simons Foundation. Read the article here
June 2023 Our CVPR workshop paper GANs for medical image synthesis is now available online. Access PDF from the computer vision foundation page
March 2023 Our work on GANs for Medical Image Super-Resolution is in the Top 100 articles of Nature Scientific Reports.
January 2023 We are editing the special topic in Frontiers in AI, Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers in Radiology. Submissions are welcome. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50539/recent-advances-in-multimodal-artificial-intelligence-for-disease-diagnosis-prognosis-and-prevention.
November 2022 Our blog post is featured on European Society of Radiology AI blog Read here.
September 2022 I am hosting and moderating the Health Informatics Research Clinic.
October 2021 I have been awarded Best Researcher Award by COMSATS University Islamabad. On this wonderful occasion, I would like to thank all the co-authors and research collaborators.
February 2024 I am PC member at ECAI 2024 conference.
February 2024 I am PC member at MICCAI 2024 conference.
February 2024 I am PC member at IEEE CVPR Workshop on WiCV2024.
January 2024 I am PC member at IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2024.
January 2024 I am PC Chair Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, 2024.
December 2023 Our edited book Advances in Deep Generative Models for Medical Artificial Intelligence is now published and available on Springer Nature https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46341-9
September 2023 Our edited book has the ISBN and landing page on Springer https://link.springer.com/book/9783031463402
August 2023 I am Reviewer Mentor at the 2023 Machine Learning 4 Health Symposium
June 2023 Our work is featured on QuantaMagazine - an independent science magazine of the Simons Foundation. Read the article here
June 2023 Our CVPR workshop paper GANs for medical image synthesis is now available online. Access PDF from the computer vision foundation page
March 2023 Our work on GANs for Medical Image Super-Resolution is in the Top 100 articles of Nature Scientific Reports.
January 2023 We are editing the special topic in Frontiers in AI, Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers in Radiology. Submissions are welcome. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50539/recent-advances-in-multimodal-artificial-intelligence-for-disease-diagnosis-prognosis-and-prevention.
November 2022 Our blog post is featured on European Society of Radiology AI blog Read here.
September 2022 I am hosting and moderating the Health Informatics Research Clinic.
October 2021 I have been awarded Best Researcher Award by COMSATS University Islamabad. On this wonderful occasion, I would like to thank all the co-authors and research collaborators.
Research Interests
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Medical Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.
Sub-areas and applications:
Generative Adversarial Networks, Medical image segmentation, Medical image synthesis, Deep learning in ultrasound images, Features extraction from speech data, time-series data analysis, Data Science.
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Medical Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.
Sub-areas and applications:
Generative Adversarial Networks, Medical image segmentation, Medical image synthesis, Deep learning in ultrasound images, Features extraction from speech data, time-series data analysis, Data Science.
Media
Our work on diffusion models for generating lung X-ray and CT is featured on Quanta Magazine. Read the article on
www.quantamagazine.org/neural-networks-need-data-to-learn-even-if-its-fake-20230616/
www.quantamagazine.org/neural-networks-need-data-to-learn-even-if-its-fake-20230616/
Our work on diffusion models for generating lung X-ray and CT is featured on Quanta Magazine. Read the article on
www.quantamagazine.org/neural-networks-need-data-to-learn-even-if-its-fake-20230616/
Our blog post "The role of generative adversarial networks in brain MRI" is featured on
European Society of Radiology AI blog Read here.
Link: https://ai.myesr.org/articles/the-role-of-generative-adversarial-networks-in-brain-mri-a-scoping-review/
Our interview published with Al-anbat news, "What Social Media Says About Shifting Public Attitudes Towards Vaccines"
Link: https://alanbatnews.net/eng/article/385625
Our interview published on HBKU Qatar website, https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/news/CSE-AI-WSMSASATV
COMSATS University Youtube channel covers our LaTeX workshop.
COMSATS University Youtube channel covers our winning of the research pitch award
Teaching
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2019
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2019
Signals and Systems - Spring 2018
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2018
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2018
Control Systems - Spring 2018
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2017
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2017
Digital Signal Processing - Spring 2017
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2016
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentations - Spring 2016
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentations - Fall 2015
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2019
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2019
Signals and Systems - Spring 2018
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2018
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2018
Control Systems - Spring 2018
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2017
Machine Learning (Graduate Course) - Spring 2017
Digital Signal Processing - Spring 2017
Digital Signal Processing - Fall 2016
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentations - Spring 2016
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentations - Fall 2015
Work Experience
Researcher (July 2021 onwards), College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
- Worked on AI for healthcare, deep learning for medical images.
Senior Researcher/Postdoc Researcher (January 2020 - July 2021), Center for Biomedical Engineering R & D, Umea University Hospital, Umea University, Sweden.
- Worked on deep learning for ultrasound images, disease adaptation in ultrasound images using GANs.
- Funded by grant from Kempe Foundation Sweden.
Assistant Professor (September 2015 - present), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan (formerly COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan)
- Course Head - Digital Signal Processing (starting Fall 2016).
- Course Head - Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016)
- Webpage committee convener (starting Fall 2018)
- Founding team member, Students' Startup Business Center at CIIT Abbottabad
- Delivered training workshop on machine learning, and laTeX document compilation.
- Supervised and co-supervised 10+ graduate research thesis in deep learning, machine learning, and medical imaging.
- Worked on AI for healthcare, deep learning for medical images.
Senior Researcher/Postdoc Researcher (January 2020 - July 2021), Center for Biomedical Engineering R & D, Umea University Hospital, Umea University, Sweden.
- Worked on deep learning for ultrasound images, disease adaptation in ultrasound images using GANs.
- Funded by grant from Kempe Foundation Sweden.
Assistant Professor (September 2015 - present), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan (formerly COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan)
- Course Head - Digital Signal Processing (starting Fall 2016).
- Course Head - Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016)
- Webpage committee convener (starting Fall 2018)
- Founding team member, Students' Startup Business Center at CIIT Abbottabad
- Delivered training workshop on machine learning, and laTeX document compilation.
- Supervised and co-supervised 10+ graduate research thesis in deep learning, machine learning, and medical imaging.
Editorial Activities
Moderator and Host (since September 2022) Health Informatics Research Clinic. Read more here
Associate Editor (since March 2018), IEEE Access
Academic Editor (since 2020), PeerJ Computer Science journal
Associate Editor (since April 2021), IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter
Guest editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers in Radiology, Recent Advances in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prevention
Academic Editor (since April 2023), IET Software
Expert evaluator (Sep 2023 - Dec 2023), Evaluator of Research Grant Proposals at SyMeCo, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at LERO – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.
Associate Editor (since March 2018), IEEE Access
Academic Editor (since 2020), PeerJ Computer Science journal
Associate Editor (since April 2021), IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter
Guest editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers in Radiology, Recent Advances in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prevention
Academic Editor (since April 2023), IET Software
Expert evaluator (Sep 2023 - Dec 2023), Evaluator of Research Grant Proposals at SyMeCo, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at LERO – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.
Professional Activities - Journals
Reviewer, Nature Scientific Reports
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Reviewer, IEEE Communication Letters
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge Press)
Reviewer, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters
Reviewer, Elsevier Applied Soft Computing
Reviewer, Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering (Outstanding reviewer award 2017 by Elsevier)
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-resource language information processing
Reviewer, IET Computer Vision
Reviewer, IET Signal Processing
Reviewer, Springer - Neural Processing Letters
Reviewer, Springer - Neural Computing and Applications.
Reviewer, Springer - Multimedia Tools and Applications
Reviewer, Taylor & Francis Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, Bahria University Journal of Information and Communication Technologies
Reviewer, Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Reviewer, Frontiers in Public Health
Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Hindawi/Wiley)
Reviewer, Diagnostics
Reviewer, Electronics
Reviewer, Bioengineering
Reviewer, Mathematics
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Reviewer, IEEE Communication Letters
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge Press)
Reviewer, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters
Reviewer, Elsevier Applied Soft Computing
Reviewer, Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering (Outstanding reviewer award 2017 by Elsevier)
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-resource language information processing
Reviewer, IET Computer Vision
Reviewer, IET Signal Processing
Reviewer, Springer - Neural Processing Letters
Reviewer, Springer - Neural Computing and Applications.
Reviewer, Springer - Multimedia Tools and Applications
Reviewer, Taylor & Francis Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, Bahria University Journal of Information and Communication Technologies
Reviewer, Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Reviewer, Frontiers in Public Health
Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Hindawi/Wiley)
Reviewer, Diagnostics
Reviewer, Electronics
Reviewer, Bioengineering
Reviewer, Mathematics
Professional Activities - Conferences
PC Chair, Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, January 2024, Turkey. (https://fones-aiot.sci-conf.com/)
Publicity co-chair, Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things (ICAIoT) 2022, Turkey (https://icaiot.sci-conf.com/)
Session Chair, Session on Deep Learning for Medical Images at International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022 (https://misp2022.nitrr.ac.in/)
Lead Organizer/Chair, NeurIPS meet-up, December 2020, Umea, Sweden. https://sites.google.com/view/neurips/home
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023, New Orleans, United States, 10 December 2023
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2022, New Orleans, United States, 28 November 2022
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2021
PC Member, UK International Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2024), Manchester, United Kingdom
PC Member, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024, Morocco.
PC Member/Reviewer, CVPR Workshop WiCV 2024, Seattle, USA.
PC Member, 20th Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2024), Greece.
PC Member, 25th Engineering Applications of Neural Networks / Advances of Artificial Intelligence (EANN / EAAAI 2024), Greece.
PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (ICAI 2024), Singapore.
PC Member/Reviewer, Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2024, (NLDL 2024), 9 - 11 January 2024, Norway.
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023 (ML4H 2023), New Orleans, United States.
PC Member/Reviewer, CVPR Workshop WiCV 2023, Vancouer, Canada.
PC Member, Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML 2023, Turkey.
PC Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2023, Crete, Greece.
PC Member, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022, Singapore.
PC Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2022.
PC Member, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2022.
PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022), Canada
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2022
PC Member, International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence 2022 (https://icmi.aiplustech.org/index.html)
PC Member, International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022 (https://misp2022.nitrr.ac.in/)
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2021
Reviewer, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2021
PC Member/Reviewer, NeurIPS Workshop ML4Health 2020
Reviewer, ACL 2020
Reviewer, ICPR 2020
Reviewer, EMNLP 2020
Reviewer, IEEE Globecom 2020
Reviewer, MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
Reviewer, ACL 2019
PC Member, ICET 2020 - IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies.
Reviewer, International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking - IEEE WiSPNet 2018 - http://www.wispnet2018.org/
PC Member, International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications 2020 (INTAP 2020 Norway), INTAP 2019 and INTAP 2018, http://jdconline.net/intap/index.html
PC Member, International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering & Computing Technologies 2019, INTELLECT 2019. http://intellect.pafkiet.edu.pk/
PC Member, Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2016 and FIT 2019. http://fit.edu.pk/
Reviewer, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies, ICACT 2017, ICACT 2018, ICACT 2019 http://www.icact.org/
Technical Committee Member, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communications.
Reviewer, Frontiers of Information Technology FIT 2016, FIT 2018, FIT 2019 http://fit.edu.pk/
Reviewer, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools
PC Member, IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cybermatics (SPiCy 2015)
Review Committee Co-chair, City Informatics PhD Symposium, (CIPS 2014), City University London.
Sub-Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2014.
Publicity co-chair, Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things (ICAIoT) 2022, Turkey (https://icaiot.sci-conf.com/)
Session Chair, Session on Deep Learning for Medical Images at International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022 (https://misp2022.nitrr.ac.in/)
Lead Organizer/Chair, NeurIPS meet-up, December 2020, Umea, Sweden. https://sites.google.com/view/neurips/home
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023, New Orleans, United States, 10 December 2023
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2022, New Orleans, United States, 28 November 2022
Reviewer Mentor, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2021
PC Member, UK International Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2024), Manchester, United Kingdom
PC Member, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024, Morocco.
PC Member/Reviewer, CVPR Workshop WiCV 2024, Seattle, USA.
PC Member, 20th Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2024), Greece.
PC Member, 25th Engineering Applications of Neural Networks / Advances of Artificial Intelligence (EANN / EAAAI 2024), Greece.
PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (ICAI 2024), Singapore.
PC Member/Reviewer, Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2024, (NLDL 2024), 9 - 11 January 2024, Norway.
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023 (ML4H 2023), New Orleans, United States.
PC Member/Reviewer, CVPR Workshop WiCV 2023, Vancouer, Canada.
PC Member, Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML 2023, Turkey.
PC Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2023, Crete, Greece.
PC Member, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022, Singapore.
PC Member, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2022.
PC Member, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2022.
PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022), Canada
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2022
PC Member, International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence 2022 (https://icmi.aiplustech.org/index.html)
PC Member, International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022 (https://misp2022.nitrr.ac.in/)
PC Member/Reviewer, Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2021
Reviewer, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2021
PC Member/Reviewer, NeurIPS Workshop ML4Health 2020
Reviewer, ACL 2020
Reviewer, ICPR 2020
Reviewer, EMNLP 2020
Reviewer, IEEE Globecom 2020
Reviewer, MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
Reviewer, ACL 2019
PC Member, ICET 2020 - IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies.
Reviewer, International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking - IEEE WiSPNet 2018 - http://www.wispnet2018.org/
PC Member, International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications 2020 (INTAP 2020 Norway), INTAP 2019 and INTAP 2018, http://jdconline.net/intap/index.html
PC Member, International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering & Computing Technologies 2019, INTELLECT 2019. http://intellect.pafkiet.edu.pk/
PC Member, Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2016 and FIT 2019. http://fit.edu.pk/
Reviewer, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies, ICACT 2017, ICACT 2018, ICACT 2019 http://www.icact.org/
Technical Committee Member, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communications.
Reviewer, Frontiers of Information Technology FIT 2016, FIT 2018, FIT 2019 http://fit.edu.pk/
Reviewer, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools
PC Member, IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cybermatics (SPiCy 2015)
Review Committee Co-chair, City Informatics PhD Symposium, (CIPS 2014), City University London.
Sub-Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2014.
Professional Membership
IEEE, Senior Member
Advance-HE, UK, Associate Fellow
Swedish AI Society, Member
Pakistan Engineering Council, Registered Engineer
AGI Society, Basic Member
Advance-HE, UK, Associate Fellow
Swedish AI Society, Member
Pakistan Engineering Council, Registered Engineer
AGI Society, Basic Member
Talks
Invited Talk, Can AI generate medical image data with clinical value?, at Recent Advances in Computer Science & Information Technology (RACSIT 2024), Lahore, Pakistan, 05 March 2024. (https://dv.ue.edu.pk/racsit2024/)
Seminar Talk, Generating Data for Medical AI – Beyond the hype, at Graduate Health Informatics Seminar. Hosted by Prof. Mowafa Househ, HBKU, Qatar, 31 August 2022.
Invited Talk, Deep Learning in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images, at the Health Informatics seminar series, St. John University, USA, hosted by St. John University, 27 September 2021.
Discover Pakistan in 20 minutes, at the annual planning days meeting of MT-FoU in October 2020, Umea University Sweden.
Seminar Talk, Medical Image Data Augmentation using GANs, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by AI @ MT-FoU Seminar Series, 27 May 2020. Slides available here
Seminar Talk, Generative Adversarial Networks and Medical Imaging, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by Dr. Christer Gronlund, January 2020.
Invited Talk, Deep learning and the rise of AI: at International Conference on Computational Science and Technologies (INCCST 2019), 10 – 12 April 2019, at Mehran UET Jamshoro.
Workshop talk, LaTeX document compilation workshop We conducted a one-day training workshop on LaTeX document compilation, 4 May 2018 at COMSATS Abbottabad. Selected slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/HazratAli1/slides-1-alilatex
Contributed talk, presented paper on Urdu Speech Recognition at EANN 2016, Aberdeen, UK
Machine Learning Workshop I conducted a two-day workshop on Machine Learning, 3-4 May, 2016
(Details available at: http://mlworkshop.weebly.com/), organized by IEEE Student Section CIIT Abbottabad and Electrical Engineering Department CIIT Abbottabad.
Deep Learning and Speech Processing, Invited Talk at 2014 International Conference on Cyberspace Technology (CCT2014), Enshi, China, November 2014. [click here] [slides link3]
Deep Learning for Audio Data – An Introduction, Invited Talk for Graduate students of Software Engineering of USTB, China and BTH, Sweden. (28 October 2014)
Hybrid Features Combination for Audio Data Classification, Machine Learning Group Reading @ City University London, UK, (April 2014) [slides] [slides link2]
Seminar Talk, Generating Data for Medical AI – Beyond the hype, at Graduate Health Informatics Seminar. Hosted by Prof. Mowafa Househ, HBKU, Qatar, 31 August 2022.
Invited Talk, Deep Learning in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images, at the Health Informatics seminar series, St. John University, USA, hosted by St. John University, 27 September 2021.
Discover Pakistan in 20 minutes, at the annual planning days meeting of MT-FoU in October 2020, Umea University Sweden.
Seminar Talk, Medical Image Data Augmentation using GANs, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by AI @ MT-FoU Seminar Series, 27 May 2020. Slides available here
Seminar Talk, Generative Adversarial Networks and Medical Imaging, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by Dr. Christer Gronlund, January 2020.
Invited Talk, Deep learning and the rise of AI: at International Conference on Computational Science and Technologies (INCCST 2019), 10 – 12 April 2019, at Mehran UET Jamshoro.
Workshop talk, LaTeX document compilation workshop We conducted a one-day training workshop on LaTeX document compilation, 4 May 2018 at COMSATS Abbottabad. Selected slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/HazratAli1/slides-1-alilatex
Contributed talk, presented paper on Urdu Speech Recognition at EANN 2016, Aberdeen, UK
Machine Learning Workshop I conducted a two-day workshop on Machine Learning, 3-4 May, 2016
(Details available at: http://mlworkshop.weebly.com/), organized by IEEE Student Section CIIT Abbottabad and Electrical Engineering Department CIIT Abbottabad.
Deep Learning and Speech Processing, Invited Talk at 2014 International Conference on Cyberspace Technology (CCT2014), Enshi, China, November 2014. [click here] [slides link3]
Deep Learning for Audio Data – An Introduction, Invited Talk for Graduate students of Software Engineering of USTB, China and BTH, Sweden. (28 October 2014)
Hybrid Features Combination for Audio Data Classification, Machine Learning Group Reading @ City University London, UK, (April 2014) [slides] [slides link2]
Education
Phd (2015), University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
MSc, Electrical Engineering, Major: Communication and Electronic Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan
BSc, Electrical Engineering, Major: Communication Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan
MSc, Electrical Engineering, Major: Communication and Electronic Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan
BSc, Electrical Engineering, Major: Communication Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar Pakistan
Awards and Scholarships
[Best Researcher Awarded]
Best Researcher Award for research achievements - awarded by COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad, 05 October 2021.
[DAAD AI-Net Fellowship]
Awarded the DAAD AI-Net Fellowship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange) for the 2021 AI Networking Tour, 13 - 17 September 2021
[Postdoc Grant]
Awarded the Kempe Foundation Research Grant for Postdoc research at Umea University, Sweden - starting from January 2020.
[Intel Edge AI Scholarship]
Awarded the Intel Edge AI Scholarship for Intel AI foundation course on Udacity - starting from 16 December 2019.
[Best Poster award]
Our research poster "Computer-aided diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Medical Images: Machine Learning to the rescue" won first prize for research poster competition at TechFest 2019, organized by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on 29th October 2019 at CUI Abbbottabad Campus.
[Travel Grant]
Awarded travel grant by the Eastern European Machine Learning summer school organized by Politehnica University of Bucharest, held from 1 - 6 July 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.
[Top 10 Research Pitch award]
Our research pitch is selected for Top 10 pitches award in national level competition, organized by University of Queensland Australia and University of Haripur Pakistan.
[Travel Support Grant]
Awarded travel support grant by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation to attend HLF 2017, at Heidelberg, Germany
[Ignite NGIRI grant]
FYP grant 75000/- PKR, under the National Grassroot Research Initiative scheme, awarded by Ignite (formerly ICT R & D Fund) Pakistan
Project: Recurrent Neural Network for EEG Signal Processing)
Supervisor: Dr. Hazrat Ali
[HEC Research Grant]
Research grant worth 0.241 million PKR, awarded by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan
Project: Urdu hand written characters recognition
PI: Dr. Hazrat Ali, Co-PI: Prof. Shahid Khattak
[HEC Travel grant]
Travel grant worth 0.27 million PKR, for attending EANN 2016 conference in Aberdeen, UK.
IEEE EMBS Student Travel Award
I was awarded IEEE Travel Award, to attend IEEE EMBS Summer School on Neural Engineering, held in Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 13 - 19 July, 2015.
I was awarded 2nd Prize - USTB Excellent International Student Award
I was awarded 2nd prize for the session 2013/2014. This is awarded by the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Travel Grant by Erasmus Mundus StrongTies
I was funded by Erasmus Mundus StrongTies grant to attend Lisbon Machine Learning School at Instituto Superior Tecnico, at Lisbon, Protugal, July 2014.
QCRI/Boeing Travel Award
(awarded 04 consecutive years) I was funded by Qatar Computing Research Institute & Boeing to attend and present my research poster at Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium, MLDAS 2014 and MLDAS 2015, MLDAS 2016, MLDAS 2017, Doha, Qatar.
TERENA/CISCO Student Award
I was funded by TERENA to attend and present my research poster at TERENA Networking Conference TNC2013 at Maastricht, the Netherlands.
HEC Scholarship - fully funded scholarship for the entire duration of PhD studies
Best Researcher Award for research achievements - awarded by COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad, 05 October 2021.
[DAAD AI-Net Fellowship]
Awarded the DAAD AI-Net Fellowship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange) for the 2021 AI Networking Tour, 13 - 17 September 2021
[Postdoc Grant]
Awarded the Kempe Foundation Research Grant for Postdoc research at Umea University, Sweden - starting from January 2020.
[Intel Edge AI Scholarship]
Awarded the Intel Edge AI Scholarship for Intel AI foundation course on Udacity - starting from 16 December 2019.
[Best Poster award]
Our research poster "Computer-aided diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Medical Images: Machine Learning to the rescue" won first prize for research poster competition at TechFest 2019, organized by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on 29th October 2019 at CUI Abbbottabad Campus.
[Travel Grant]
Awarded travel grant by the Eastern European Machine Learning summer school organized by Politehnica University of Bucharest, held from 1 - 6 July 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.
[Top 10 Research Pitch award]
Our research pitch is selected for Top 10 pitches award in national level competition, organized by University of Queensland Australia and University of Haripur Pakistan.
[Travel Support Grant]
Awarded travel support grant by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation to attend HLF 2017, at Heidelberg, Germany
[Ignite NGIRI grant]
FYP grant 75000/- PKR, under the National Grassroot Research Initiative scheme, awarded by Ignite (formerly ICT R & D Fund) Pakistan
Project: Recurrent Neural Network for EEG Signal Processing)
Supervisor: Dr. Hazrat Ali
[HEC Research Grant]
Research grant worth 0.241 million PKR, awarded by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan
Project: Urdu hand written characters recognition
PI: Dr. Hazrat Ali, Co-PI: Prof. Shahid Khattak
[HEC Travel grant]
Travel grant worth 0.27 million PKR, for attending EANN 2016 conference in Aberdeen, UK.
IEEE EMBS Student Travel Award
I was awarded IEEE Travel Award, to attend IEEE EMBS Summer School on Neural Engineering, held in Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 13 - 19 July, 2015.
I was awarded 2nd Prize - USTB Excellent International Student Award
I was awarded 2nd prize for the session 2013/2014. This is awarded by the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Travel Grant by Erasmus Mundus StrongTies
I was funded by Erasmus Mundus StrongTies grant to attend Lisbon Machine Learning School at Instituto Superior Tecnico, at Lisbon, Protugal, July 2014.
QCRI/Boeing Travel Award
(awarded 04 consecutive years) I was funded by Qatar Computing Research Institute & Boeing to attend and present my research poster at Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium, MLDAS 2014 and MLDAS 2015, MLDAS 2016, MLDAS 2017, Doha, Qatar.
TERENA/CISCO Student Award
I was funded by TERENA to attend and present my research poster at TERENA Networking Conference TNC2013 at Maastricht, the Netherlands.
HEC Scholarship - fully funded scholarship for the entire duration of PhD studies
My Blogs and articles
Mystery behind human brain - My article published in technologytimes.pk
Courses and Certifications
[Oxford Machine Learning School] Participated in 2020 Oxford Machine Learning school.
Organized by AI for Global Goals in collaboration with Oxford Said Buisness School, Oxford Deep Medicine and CIFAR.
Thanks to the generous scholarship by the school.
Oxford (Virtual), 17 - 25 August 2020.
Organized by AI for Global Goals in collaboration with Oxford Said Buisness School, Oxford Deep Medicine and CIFAR.
Thanks to the generous scholarship by the school.
Oxford (Virtual), 17 - 25 August 2020.
[Deep Learning: a hands-on introduction] Participated in the virtual summer school.
Organized by Machine Learning Genoa Center (MaLGa),
University of Genoa, Italy, 13 - 17 July 2020.
A 20 hours course with lab sessions, course taught by Nicoletta Noceti.
Organized by Machine Learning Genoa Center (MaLGa),
University of Genoa, Italy, 13 - 17 July 2020.
A 20 hours course with lab sessions, course taught by Nicoletta Noceti.
[Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School] Participant and Travel Grant Awardee
Organized by Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, 1 - 6 July 2019.
Extensive lectures and lab sessions on machine learning, tensor flow.
Organized by Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, 1 - 6 July 2019.
Extensive lectures and lab sessions on machine learning, tensor flow.
[Conference Session Chair] Session Chair
2019 International Conference on Computational Sciences and Technologies
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro
2019 International Conference on Computational Sciences and Technologies
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro
[Top 10 Research Pitch Award]
All Pakistan Research Pitch Competition,
organized by University of Queensland Australia, and University of Haripur, Pakistan
All Pakistan Research Pitch Competition,
organized by University of Queensland Australia, and University of Haripur, Pakistan
[Young researcher participant at HLF 2017]
5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany.
5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany.
Outstanding reviewer recognition
by Elsevier
by Elsevier
Countries Visited
Countries Visited (Interactive Map) (color #6699dd)