Dr Amir Hussain

• 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: 

• 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.
• 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.
• 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)

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 2^nd 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 NetworksSalerno, Italy, 13-17 Sep 2004. : Non-linear Speech Processing, held in I.I.A.S.S., Vietri Sul Mare,
• 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) 6^th & 7^th 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 2^nd International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS’2006)Lesvos, Greece, 10-14 Oct 2006. held in
• General Co-Chair of the 3^rd 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, 5^th 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 2006Glasgow, 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.