People

Prof. Amin Beheshti
(Founder and Head)

Prof. Jian Yang
(Academic)

Dr. Xuyun Zhang
(Academic)

Dr. Jia Wu
(Academic)

Dr. Habiba Habiba
(Senior Research Fellow)

Dr. Helia Farhood
(Research Fellow)

Hadi Abachi
(PhD Student)

Anthony Shaw
(PhD Student)

Masoud Safilian
(PhD Student)

Alireza Shammasi
(MRes Student)

Matine Poushide
(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)

Fariba Lotfi
(PhD Student)

Stephen Elbourn
(MRes Student)

Saleh Afzoon
(PhD Student)

Maryam Shahabikargar
(PhD Student)

Nasrin Shabani
(PhD Student)

Haolong Xiang
(PhD Student)

Ambreen Hanif
(PhD Student)

Graeme Thomas
(MRes Student)

Alex Roudjiat
(Mres Student)

Mahdieh Labani
(PhD Student)

Salman Rad
(PhD Student)

Nabi Rezvani
(PhD Student)

Usman Shahbaz
(PhD Student)

Erfan Moshiri
(Internship Student)

Pouya Sadeghi
(Internship Student)

M Haris Rizwan
(Internship Student)

Ali Mohseni
(Internship Student)

Past Members

• 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.
• Kelley Yohe, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Towards Global, Socio-economic and Culturally Aware Recommender Systems", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Francesco Schiliro, PhD Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "Privacy and Security of Cognitive Augmentation in Policing", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, Nour Mustafa, Michael Sheng.
• Matine Poushide, MRes Student, Graduated 2023, Thesis Title: "A Novel Active Solution for Two Dimensional Face Presentation Attack Detection", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, ‪Helia Farhood.
• Sahar Moraadi, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Intent Recognition in Conversational Recommender Systems", Supervisors: Amin Beheshti, ‪Mehrdad Zakershahrak.
• Ivan Bakhshayeshi, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Artificial Intelligence-enabled Livestock Recognition in Transport", Supervisors: Mohsen Asadnia, Amin Beheshti.
• Maryam Shahabikargar, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Knowledge-based Mining of Mental Disorder Patterns from Textual Data", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Cathy HE, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Protecting Vehicular and Ad Hoc Networks from Advanced Persistent Threats", Supervisor: Alireza Jolfaei.
• Dr. Alireza Jolfaei, Academic, Lab Member 2021-2022, Senior Lecturer.
• Nasrin Shabani, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Mining Creative Thinking Patterns from Educational Data", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti; Associate Supervisor: Helia Farhood.
• Ambreen Hanif, MRes Student, Graduated 2022, Thesis Title: "Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Financial Services", Supervisors: Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti; Associate Supervisor: Xuyun Zhang.
• Dr. Fariborz Sobnmanesh, Research Data Scientist, 2019-2021, Project Title: "AI-enabled Industry: Challenges and Opportunity Study", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Shuang Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021, Project Title: "Linking Cognitive Technology and Sensory Systems to Support Personalized Learning", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Samira Ghodratnama, Ph.D. Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Personalised and Human-in-the-Loop Document Summarisation", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Tara Rouhollahi, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Artificial Intelligence Enabled Financial Crime Detection", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Amin Edrisi, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Towards Dynamic Feature Selection with Attention to Assist Banking Customers in Establishing a New Business", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Nouna Khandan, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "An Intelligent Hybrid Model for Identity Document Classification", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Shahpar Yakhchi, Ph.D. Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Learning Complex Users' Preferences for Recommender Systems", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Salman Mousaeirad, MRes Student, Graduated 2021, Thesis Title: "Intelligent Vector Based Customer Segmentation in the Banking Industry", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Alireza Bordbar, Ph.D. Student and Research Fellow, 2020, Thesis Title: "Augmented Understanding and Automated Adaptation of Curation Rules", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Sam Khadivizand, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Towards Intelligent Risk-based Customer Segmentation in Banking", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• 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", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Usman Shahbaz, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Towards Automating the Recruitment Process", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Farhad Amouzgar, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Deep Reinforcement Learning As Text Generator In Image Captioning", Principal Supervisors: Amin Beheshti & Mark Dras.
• Frank Schiliro, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Internet of Things Enabled Policing Processes", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Vahid Moraveji, MRes Student, Graduated 2020, Thesis Title: "Social influence and radicalization: a social data analytics study", Principal Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Nikzad B.Rizvandi, Visiting Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "Price optimisation using deep reinforcement learning", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Mehregan Mahdavi, Visiting Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "iRecruit: Towards Automating the Recruitment Process", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Negin Hesam-Shariati, Research Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "Linking Cognitive Science and Data Science", Supervisor:Amin Beheshti.
• Dr. Sami Ghodratnama, Research Fellow, 2019, Project Title: "Storytelling with Image Data", Supervisor: Amin Beheshti.
• Internship Students:
  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