Dr Amir Hussain

University of Stirling

Amir Hussain received his BEng (with the highest First Class Honours) and his PhD both in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in 1992 and 1997 respectively.

Amir is currently a Reader in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling.   From 2000 until 2008, he held lecturer and senior lecturer positions within the same University.   Prior to that, he held a Research Lectureship at the University of Dundee from 1998-2000, and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Paisley from 1996-98.   His research interests are interdisciplinary and include: adaptive speech and signal processing, intelligent control, computational intelligence and machine learning with applications in communications, industrial control systems, data mining, audio, healthcare, bioinformatics and complex systems.   He holds one international patent in neural computation and has published more than one hundred papers to date.   He is Editor-in-Chief of the (Springer) Journal of Cognitive Computation, and serves on the Editorial Board of four other international journals.

Amir is IEEE Chapter Chair of the UK and RI Industry Applications Society.   He has been appointed an international Consultant for the Pakistan Higher Education Commission’s Quality Assurance Agency, and has been an invited visiting Professor at several Pakistani Universities. He has also been a senior visiting fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Signal and Image Processing at Strathclyde University.   He was general co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS’2006), and the biennial international conference series: Brain Inspired Cognitive systems (BICS).

Amir is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.