Telephone: | +61 8 6304 2379 |
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Email: | afaq.shah@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | Joondalup |
Room: | JO18.418C |
ORCID iD: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2181-8445 |
Dr. Syed Afaq Shah is a Senior Lecturer (Computer Science) in the School of Science and core member of Centre for AI and Machine Learning, ECU.
Dr. Afaq Shah is a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer (Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering), the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. He leads the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research (RAIR) group. Prior to joining ECU, he worked as a Lecturer at Murdoch University (2018 to 2021) and Lecturer ICT at Central Queensland University (2018). He received his PhD degree from UWA and later worked as a Research Fellow for 2.5 years at UWA. Prior to his enrolment at the University of Western Australia, he worked for seven years as Project Manager and later Deputy Chief Engineer (Information Technology) in the aviation industry.
Afaq’s main field of research and interest is ‘Artificial Intelligence’. He develops deep learning techniques for image/video/data analysis, scene understanding, health (e.g., prediction of cardiovascular and Alzheimer disease), agricultural monitoring, medical/bio-medical applications, remote sensing, security, surveillance and monitoring. He has significantly contributed to machine learning, 3D feature descriptors, 3D object recognition and reconstruction, image segmentation, biometrics, 2D-3D scene understanding, and classification, human computer interaction, 2D-3D action and gesture recognition, image captioning, and health analytics. He has published over 50 research papers in high impact factor journals including IJCV, IEEE TNNLS, Pattern Recognition and reputable conferences including NeurIPS and ECCV. He has also co-authored a book, “A Guide to Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision”. He has been awarded over $350,000 in different competitive research funding schemes. He is Australian Computer Society Certified Professional and Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK.
National and International Awards
University and National Teaching Awards
National and International Research Positions