Supervision

Oviemuno Imara

MSc Thesis title: Prostate Segmentation Using Deep Learning Techniques

Graduated June 2025.

Jamie Clements

Thesis title: LLMs for Surgical Video Analysis

Undergraduate disseration at the University of Stirling. Graduated May 2025.

The dissertation won the Best Computing Dissertation Prize 2024-25.

Jamie is now Google DeepMind Research-ready intern at the University of Edinburgh and APRIL-AI Hub

Faizan Munawar

MSc Thesis title: Medical Image Segmentation Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Graduated January 2020 (co-supervised with Dr. Shoaib Azmat).

During MSc thesis, Faizan was also selected as visiting research student at Schenzhen University, China.

Faizan is now a Staff Researcher and Assistant Lecturer at the Atlantic Technological University, Ireland and MISHE

Talha Iqbal

MSc Thesis title: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Medical Imaging

Graduated July 2018. Now Postdoc at University of Galway, Ireland.

Talha is now a Research Fellow at the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and Visual Intelligence Lab, University of Galway, Ireland.

Mehreen Mubashir

MSc Thesis title: A Multiscale Recurrent Residual Medical Image Segmentation Model with Dense Skip Connections

Graduated August 2020 (co-supervised with Dr. Shoaib Azmat). Now, PhD Researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, Research Assistant at National Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Pakistan.

Muhammad Muneeb Saad

MSc Thesis title: Fraud detection using recurrent neural networks

Graduated July 2018. Now, Research Fellow at MTU Ireland after completing PhD from Munster Technological University, Ireland.

Muhammad Muneeb Saad also received the LERO PhD/Post-Doctoral Researcher Contribution Prize for his innovative research on improving Generative Adversarial Networks.

Ahsan Ullah

Msc Thesis title: Deep Autoencoder for Handwritten Text Recognition of Urdu

Graduated July 2017. Now Engineering Team Lead at Supple Digital, Australia.

Nasir Khan

MSc Thesis title: Tuberculosis Identification using Mask R-CNN

Graduated January 2020.

Owais Ali

MSc Thesis title: Edge Computing for Medical Image Segmentation

Graduated January 2020 (co-supervised with Dr. Amir Shahzad). Now PhD student at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Waqar Ahmad

MSc Thesis title: Medical Images Super Resolution Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Graduated January 2021 (co-supervised with Dr. Shoaib Azmat). Now, PhD student at Dublin City University, Ireland

Aiman Tahir

MSc Thesis title: An Image to Image Translation GAN for Medical Image Segmentation

Graduated January 2021 (co-supervised with Dr. Shoaib Azmat). Now, Senior Data Scientist with Prixite. Also served as AI Engineer at Afiniti and as Researcher at National Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Pakistan.

Muhammad Rafiq

MSc Thesis title: Medical Image Synthesis Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Graduated July 2021 (co-supervised with Dr. Shoaib Azmat).

Shafqat Ali

MSc Thesis title: Convolutional Neural Networks for Urdu Handwritten Characters Recognition

Graduated July 2018.

Zia Ullah

Msc Thesis title: Urdu Text Extraction from Natural Scene Images

Graduated July 2018 (co-supervised with Dr. Ghulam Mujtaba).

Afsheen Rehman

Msc Thesis title: Novel approach for Brain tumor segmentation using magnetic resonance imaging modality

Graduated January 2019.

Muhammad Shakaib Iqbal

MSc Thesis title: ​Trees classification in aerial imagery using modified CNN

Graduated July 2019. Now Assistant Manager at KMLG.