People

Prof. Amin Beheshti
(Founder and Head)

Dr. Xuyun Zhang
(Academic)

Prof. Jian Yang
(Academic)

A/Prof. Jia Wu
(Academic)

Dr. Emma Xue
(Academic)

Dr. Yuankai Qi
(Academic)

Dr. Mehrdad Mansouri
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Dr. Kexuan Xin
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Dr. Majid Namazi
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Dr. Jing Du
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Dr. Habiba Habiba
(Senior Research Fellow)

Aliakbar Attari
(PhD Student)

Mohammad H. Ahmadi
(PhD Student)

Meiyan Teng
(PhD Student)

Matthew Warner-Smith
(PhD Student)

Sanaz Yasipourtehrani
(MRes Student)

Alireza Shammasi
(PhD Student)

Enoch Chan
(MRes Y2 + PhD Student)

Afrooz Sheikholeslami
(MRes Y2 + PhD Student)

Erfan Moshiri
(MRes Y2 + PhD Student)

Hadi Abachi
(PhD Student)

Anthony Shaw
(PhD Student)

Masoud Safilian
(PhD Student)

Jin Foo
(PhD Student)

Junyan Li
(MRes+PhD Student)

Hongyi Lu
(PhD Student)

Roopasree Chidurala
(MRes Student)

Adeem Ali Anwar
(PhD Student)

Sahar Moraadi
(PhD Student)

Xiaoxiao Chi
(PhD Student)

Saleh Afzoon
(PhD Student)

Maryam Shahabikargar
(PhD Student)

Nasrin Shabani
(PhD Student)

Salman Rad
(PhD Student)

Usman Shahbaz
(PhD Student)

Ali Mohseni
(Research Internship)

Melika Zare
(Research Internship)

Zahra Fathollahi
(Research Internship)

Ali Shahsavandi
(Research Internship)

Sogol Hosseini
(Research Internship)

Parimehr Morassafar
(Research Internship)

Kamyar Taeb
(Research Internship)

Zahra Jamali
(Research Internship)

Jasmine Huynh
(Research Internship)

Zahra Jahanandish
(Research Internship)

Ghazal Kalhori
(Research Internship)

Shirin Jabbari
(Research Internship)

Mobin Roohi
(Research Internship)

Arian Kalantari
(Research Internship)

Past Members

1. Afrooz Sheikholeslami, MRes Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Towards Unifying Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models for Context-Aware Embeddings to Enhance Real Estate Analytics", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti.
2. Jin Foo, MRes Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "iTransact: Isolation Kernel-based Transaction Classification", Supervisors: Xuyun Xhang, Amin Beheshti.
3. Enoch Chan, MRes Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Towards Benchmarking Automated Machine Learning Frameworks in the Age of Generative AI", Supervisors: Yuankai Qi, Amin Beheshti.
4. Erfan Moshiri, MRes Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Towards Enhancing Data Imputation Techniques Through Graph Attention Autoencoder Models", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti.
5. Dr. Ambreen Hanif, PhD Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Towards Linking Storytelling and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Interpretation, Explanation, and Visualization of Deep Learning", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
   Awarded: AI Centre's 2023 Excelence in Leadership.
6. Stephen Elbourn, MRes Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "The Impact of Generative AI on Student Churn and the Future of Formal Education", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, Michael Sheng.
7. Dr. Nabi Rezvani, PhD Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Towards Contextualised Deep Learning Based Cyberbullying Detection", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti.
   
8. Dr. Fariba Lotfi, PhD Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Enhancing Image Annotation Through Data Storytelling and Contextualization", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, Mansour Jamzad, Hamid Beigy.
   Awarded: AI Centre's 2023 Excelence in Industry-Engaged Research.
9. Dr. Mahdieh Labani, PhD Student, Graduated 2024, Thesis Title: "Linking Artificial Intelligence and Medical Data to Revolutionize Targeted Therapy", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, Tracey O'Brien.
   Awarded: Google PhD Fellowahip 2023, AI Centre's 2023 PhD Rising Star Award, School of Computing's 2023 PhD Rising Star Award, AI Centre's 2022 Excellence in Research and Innovation.
10. Dr. Helia Farhood, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021-2023, Project Title: " Intelligent Educational Knowledge Lake", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2023 Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision.
11. Alireza Shammasi, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Enhancing Data Imputation with Generative AI: Transforming Time Series through Image Processing", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
    Awarded: Executive Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence 2023, AI Centre's 2023 MRes Rising Star Award.
12. Dr. Haolong Xiang, PhD Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Isolation Forest Based Anomaly Detection with Learning to Hash", Supervisor: Xuyun Zhang.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2023 Excellence in Research and Innovation.
13. Anthony Shaw, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Towards Evaluating Python as a Suitable Data Science Programming Language for Modern Computing Architecture", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
14. Kelley Yohe, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Towards Global, Socio-economic and Culturally Aware Recommender Systems", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
15. Dr. Francesco Schiliro, PhD Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Privacy and Security of Cognitive Augmentation in Policing", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, Nour Mustafa, Michael Sheng.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2019 Research and Innovation Award.
16. Matine Poushide, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "A Novel Active Solution for Two Dimensional Face Presentation Attack Detection", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, ‪Helia Farhood.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2022 Excellence in Industry-Engaged Research.
17. Sahar Moraadi, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Intent Recognition in Conversational Recommender Systems", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, ‪Mehrdad Zakershahrak.
18. Ivan Bakhshayeshi, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Artificial Intelligence-enabled Livestock Recognition in Transport", Supervisors: Mohsen Asadnia, Amin Beheshti.
19. Maryam Shahabikargar, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Knowledge-based Mining of Mental Disorder Patterns from Textual Data", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
20. Cathy HE, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Protecting Vehicular and Ad Hoc Networks from Advanced Persistent Threats", Supervisor: Alireza Jolfaei.
21. Dr. Alireza Jolfaei, Academic, Lab Member 2021-2022, Senior Lecturer.
22. Nasrin Shabani, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Mining Creative Thinking Patterns from Educational Data", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti; Associate Supervisor: Helia Farhood.
23. Ambreen Hanif, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Financial Services", Supervisors: Supervisor: Amin Beheshti; Associate Supervisor: Xuyun Zhang.
24. Dr. Fariborz Sobnmanesh, Research Data Scientist, 2019-2021, Project Title: "AI-enabled Industry: Challenges and Opportunity Study", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
25. Dr. Shuang Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021, Project Title: "Linking Cognitive Technology and Sensory Systems to Support Personalized Learning", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
26. Dr. Samira Ghodratnama, Ph.D. Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Personalised and Human-in-the-Loop Document Summarisation", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
    Awarded: Vice-Chancellor’s 2021 Commendation for Academic Excellence, AI Centre's 2019 Research and Innovation Award.
27. Tara Rouhollahi, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Artificial Intelligence Enabled Financial Crime Detection", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
28. Amin Edrisi, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Dynamic Feature Selection with Attention to Assist Banking Customers in Establishing a New Business", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
29. Nouna Khandan, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "An Intelligent Hybrid Model for Identity Document Classification", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
30. Dr. Shahpar Yakhchi, Ph.D. Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Learning Complex Users' Preferences for Recommender Systems", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2019 Research and Innovation Award.
31. Salman Mousaeirad, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Intelligent Vector Based Customer Segmentation in the Banking Industry", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
32. Dr. Alireza Bordbar, Ph.D. Student and Research Fellow, 2020, Thesis Title: "Augmented Understanding and Automated Adaptation of Curation Rules", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
33. Sam Khadivizand, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Towards Intelligent Risk-based Customer Segmentation in Banking", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
34. Dr. Mohssen Ghafari, Ph.D. Student and Research Fellow, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Towards Time-Aware Context-Aware Deep Trust Prediction in Online Social Networks", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
    Awarded: AI Centre's 2018 Research and Innovation Award.
35. Usman Shahbaz, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Towards Automating the Recruitment Process", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
36. Farhad Amouzgar, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Deep Reinforcement Learning As Text Generator In Image Captioning", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti & Mark Dras.
37. Frank Schiliro, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Internet of Things Enabled Policing Processes", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
38. Vahid Moraveji, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Social influence and radicalization: a social data analytics study", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
39. Dr. Negin Hesam-Shariati, Research Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "Linking Cognitive Science and Data Science", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
40. Dr. Sami Ghodratnama, Research Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "Storytelling with Image Data", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.

• Research Internship Students:
  M Haris Rizwan (2023), Pouya Sadeghi (2023), Erfan Moshiri (2023), William Rose (2023), Alireza Shammasi (2022), Fatemeh Tohidian (2022), Gunj Chinbat (2022), Elizabeth Galanis (2021), Sahithi Kodali (2021), Sonakshi Sharma (2021), Milad Mosharraf (2020), Mohammad Shiri (2019), Dan Phan (2019), Setareh Pourmostafa (2019), Satwik Chodisetti (2019), Daniel Vuong (2019), Fatemeh Shirbani (2018), Murali Mohan Velpula (2018).

Lab Performance:

• End of Year 2023: Click HERE
• End of Year 2022: Click HERE
• End of Year 2021: Click HERE
• End of Year 2020: Click HERE
• End of Year 2019: Click HERE