Amir Hussain | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Professor, Edinburgh Napier University |
Academic background | |
Education | BEng (1st Class Honours with distinction), PhD (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) |
Alma mater | University of Strathclyde |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Artificial Intelligence |
Website | https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/amir-hussain |
Amir Hussain [1] [2] is a cognitive scientist,the director of Cognitive Big Data and Cybersecurity [3] (CogBID) Research Lab at Edinburgh Napier University [4] He is a professor of computing science. [4] He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer Nature's internationally leading Cognitive Computation journal [5] and the new Big Data Analytics journal. [6] He is founding Editor-in-Chief for two Springer Book Series:Socio-Affective Computing [7] and Cognitive Computation Trends, [8] and also serves on the Editorial Board of a number of other world-leading journals including,as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems , IEEE Transactions on Systems,Man,and Cybernetics (Systems) and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
Prof Hussain's personal and collaborative research mainly centres around developing and applying novel cognitively-inspired multi-modal computational intelligence and machine learning techniques to a range of complex real-world applications. More generally,he is interested in novel cross-disciplinary research for brain-inspired modelling,analysis and control for engineering the complex systems of tomorrow –both theory and applications.
He has co-authored 3 international patents,more than 320 papers,including 120+ international journal papers,over 12 co-authored Books/monographs and over 70 Book chapters to-date (March 2018). He has published in leading high impact journals including,amongst others:IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems,IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,IEEE Intelligent Systems , IEEE Computational Intelligence,IEEE Transactions on Communications , IEEE Communications Magazine , IEEE Sensors Journal , Neural Networks , Knowledge Based Systems (KBS),IET Proceedings on Vision,Image &Signal Processing, Neurocomputing ,Speech Communication,(IET) Electronics Letters, Journal of Theoretical Biology ,and others.