Activities

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 June 2025), Wiley Applied AI Letters
• Associate Editor (since Dec 2024), Nature Scientific Reports
• 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 (2025), Evaluator of Research Proposals atNIHR, Advanced Fellowship of the National Institute for Health and Care Research, UK.
• 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

• Session Chair and PC Member: Ethics of AI in Healthcare at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIiH 2025), in Cambridge, UK.
• Lead co-chair: Special Session on Multimodal Generative AI in Healthcare at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIiH 2025), in Cambridge, UK.
• Lead co-chair: Special Session on AI in Surgery at the 2025 Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2025, in Leeds, UK. Website
• Area Chair: 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rome, Italy. Website
• Lead co-chair: Workshop on Foundation AI Models in Biomedical Imaging at 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Houston, Texas, USA. Website
• PC Chair: Second International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the AIoT Era, June 2025, Istanbul, Turkey 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: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2025, Bologna, Italy.
• 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.