Amir Hussain

Visiting Professor of AI and Health, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Chair Professor of AI, SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Centre for AI, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA
Professor & Director, Centre of AI and Robotics, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Joined
May 2021

Names

Amir Hussain (Preferred)

Emails

****@phc.ox.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@kfupm.edu.sa (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Visiting Professor of AI and Health
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK (ox.ac.uk)
2026 – Present
Chair Professor of AI
SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Centre for AI, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA (kfupm.edu.sa)
2026 – Present
Professor & Director, Centre of AI and Robotics
School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (napier.ac.uk)
2018 – 2026
Full Professor of Cognitive Computing
Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling, UK (stir.ac.uk)
2012 – 2018
Associate Professor of Cognitive Computing
Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling, UK (stir.ac.uk)
2008 – 2012
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Computing
Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling, UK (stir.ac.uk)
2004 – 2008
Lecturer in Cognitive Computing
Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling, UK (stir.ac.uk)
2000 – 2004
Research Lecturer in Applied Computing
School of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, UK (dundee.ac.uk)
1998 – 2000
EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Electronic Engineering and Physics, University of Paisley (now West of Scotland), UK (paisley.ac.uk)
1996 – 1998
PhD student
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK (strath.ac.uk)
1992 – 1996
Undergrad student
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK (strath.ac.uk)
1989 – 1992

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee
Soujanya Poria
2013 – 2017
PhD Advisee
Erik Cambria
2009 – 2012
PhD Advisor
Tariq S. Durrani
1992 – 1997

Expertise

Deep learning
2010 – Present
Multimodal Assistive Healthcare
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Speech processing
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Hearing Assistive Technologies
2008 – Present
Cognitive Computation
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brain inspired cognitive systems
2004 – Present
Natural language processing
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sentiment analysis
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opinion mining
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sentic computing
2002 – Present
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
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Sentic Computing
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Cognitive Computation
1993 – Present
Trustworthy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
1992 – Present
Neural Networks
1992 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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