Activities

Selected Talks

• Invited Talk: Revisiting the Pitfalls in AI, hosted by SID Lab, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, 18 December 2024. See here and here.
• Invited Talk: Beware of Generative AI in Healthcare Journalism, at Tomorrow’s News at Risk: Generative AI and Journalism event, University of Stirling, UK, 21 November 2024.
• Invited Talk: Can AI generate medical image data with clinical value?, at Recent Advances in Computer Science & Information Technology (RACSIT 2024), Lahore, Pakistan, 05 March 2024.
• Seminar Talk: Generating Data for Medical AI – Beyond the Hype, at Graduate Health Informatics Seminar, hosted by Prof. Mowafa Househ, HBKU, Qatar, 31 August 2022.
• Invited Talk: Deep Learning in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images, at the Health Informatics Seminar Series, St. John University, USA, 27 September 2021.
• Discover Pakistan in 20 Minutes, at the annual planning days meeting of MT-FoU, Umea University, Sweden, October 2020.
• Seminar Talk: Medical Image Data Augmentation using GANs, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by AI @ MT-FoU Seminar Series, 27 May 2020. Slides available here
• Seminar Talk: Generative Adversarial Networks and Medical Imaging, at Medicinsk Teknik FoU, Umea University, Sweden, hosted by Dr. Christer Gronlund, January 2020.
• Invited Talk: Deep Learning and the Rise of AI, at the International Conference on Computational Science and Technologies (INCCST 2019), Mehran UET Jamshoro, 10–12 April 2019.
• Workshop Talk: Lead coordinator and resource person for LaTeX Document Compilation Workshop, a one-day training workshop on LaTeX document compilation, 4 May 2018, at COMSATS Abbottabad. Selected slides available here
• Contributed Talk: Presented paper on Urdu Speech Recognition at EANN 2016, Aberdeen, UK.
• Workshop: Lead organizer and resource person for a two-day Machine Learning Workshop, 3–4 May 2016. Details available at: mlworkshop.weebly.com, organized by IEEE Student Section CIIT Abbottabad and the Electrical Engineering Department CIIT Abbottabad.
• Invited Talk: Deep Learning and Speech Processing, at the 2014 International Conference on Cyberspace Technology (CCT2014), Enshi, China, November 2014. Slides link
• Invited Talk: Deep Learning for Audio Data – An Introduction, for graduate students of Software Engineering of USTB, China, and BTH, Sweden, 28 October 2014. slides link or slides link 2
• Talk: Hybrid Features Combination for Audio Data Classification, at Machine Learning Group Reading, City University London, UK, April 2014. Slides link

Editorial Activities

• Moderator and Host (since September 2022) Health Informatics Research Clinic. Read more here
• Lead Guest Editor, AI journal, special issue on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.
• Associate Editor (since March 2018), IEEE Access
• Academic Editor (since 2020), PeerJ Computer Science journal
• Associate Editor (since April 2021), IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter
• Guest editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers in Radiology, Recent Advances in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prevention
• Academic Editor (since April 2023), IET Software
• Expert evaluator (2023-2024), Evaluator of Research Grant Proposals at SyMeCo, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at LERO - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.

Professional Activities - Journals

• Reviewer: Nature Scientific Reports
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• Reviewer: IEEE Communication Letters
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• Reviewer: IEEE Access
• Reviewer: Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge Press)
• Reviewer: Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters
• Reviewer: Elsevier Applied Soft Computing
• Reviewer: Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering (Outstanding reviewer award 2017 by Elsevier)
• Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-resource Language Information Processing
• Reviewer: IET Computer Vision
• Reviewer: IET Signal Processing
• Reviewer: Springer - Neural Processing Letters
• Reviewer: Springer - Neural Computing and Applications
• Reviewer: Springer - Multimedia Tools and Applications
• Reviewer: Taylor & Francis Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
• Reviewer: Bahria University Journal of Information and Communication Technologies
• Reviewer: Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
• Reviewer: Frontiers in Public Health
• Reviewer: International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Hindawi/Wiley)
• Reviewer: Diagnostics
• Reviewer: Electronics
• Reviewer: Bioengineering
• Reviewer: Mathematics
• Reviewer: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools

Professional Activities - Conferences

• Area Chair: 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rome, Italy. Website
• PC Chair: Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, January 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Website
• PC Chair: Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, January 2024, Istanbul, Turkey. Website
• Publicity Co-chair: Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things (ICAIoT) 2022, Turkey. Website
• Session Chair: Session on Deep Learning for Medical Images at International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022.
• Lead Organizer/Chair: NeurIPS meet-up, December 2020, Umea, Sweden. Website
• Reviewer Mentor: Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023, New Orleans, United States, 10 December 2023
• Reviewer Mentor: Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2022, New Orleans, United States, 28 November 2022
• Reviewer Mentor: Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2021
• PC Member: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025), Texas, USA
• PC Member: Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL 2025), Salt Lake City, USA
• PC Member: UK International Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2024), Manchester, United Kingdom
• PC Member: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention​ (MICCAI) 2024, Morocco
• PC Member/Reviewer: CVPR Workshop WiCV 2024, Seattle, USA
• PC Member: 20th Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2024), Greece
• PC Member: 25th Engineering Applications of Neural Networks / Advances of Artificial Intelligence (EANN / EAAAI 2024), Greece
• PC Member: IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (ICAI 2024), Singapore
• PC Member/Reviewer: Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2024, (NLDL 2024), Norway
• PC Member/Reviewer: Machine Learning for Health Symposium 2023 (ML4H 2023), New Orleans, United States
• PC Member/Reviewer: CVPR Workshop WiCV 2023, Vancouver, Canada
• PC Member: Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML 2023, Turkey
• PC Member: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2023, Crete, Greece
• PC Member: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention​ (MICCAI) 2022, Singapore
• PC Member: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2022
• PC Member: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2022
• PC Member: IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022), Canada
• PC Member/Reviewer: Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2022
• PC Member: International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence 2022. Website
• PC Member: International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022. Website
• PC Member/Reviewer: Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2021
• Reviewer: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2021
• PC Member/Reviewer: NeurIPS Workshop ML4Health 2020
• Reviewer: ACL 2020
• Reviewer: ICPR 2020
• Reviewer: EMNLP 2020
• Reviewer: IEEE Globecom 2020
• Reviewer: MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
• Reviewer: ACL 2019
• PC Member: ICET 2020 - IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
• Reviewer: International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking - IEEE WiSPNet 2018.
• PC Member: International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP) 2020, 2019, 2018.
• PC Member: International Conference on Latest Trends in Electrical Engineering & Computing Technologies (INTELLECT) 2019. Website
• PC Member: Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2016 and FIT 2019. http://fit.edu.pk/
• PC Member: International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies, ICACT 2017, ICACT 2018, ICACT 2019 http://www.icact.org/
• PC Member: Reviewer, Frontiers of Information Technology FIT 2016, FIT 2018, FIT 2019 http://fit.edu.pk/
• PC Member: Review Committee Co-chair, City Informatics PhD Symposium, (CIPS 2014), City University London.
• PC Member: Sub-Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2014.