Dr Ali Alameer
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
Biography
Ali Alameer is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, elected member of the University Senate, holding a Ph.D. in AI from Newcastle University.
Areas of Research
My research focuses on developing robust multimodal machine learning methods capable of integrating high-dimensional visual, temporal and textual data, with the aim of creating reliable AI systems that can perform effectively in complex and changing real-world environments.
Research Grants & External Funding
Ongoing Projects
- A machine vision-based approach for sustainable dairy farming in tropical environments, British Council / International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), £79,942, Co-Investigator (PI: Prof Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol; Partner PI: Assoc Prof Chaidate Inchaisri, Chulalongkorn University), 2026.
- Developing Computer Vision and NLP-Based Models for Motor Insurance, Innovate UK (Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Whichrate Ltd), £298,230, Principal Investigator (Co-I: Dr Taha Mansouri), 2026–2029.
- Developing a Computer Vision and NLP-Based Model for Managing Text and Image Queries, Innovate UK (Knowledge Transfer Partnership with TSK Group), £293,603, Co-Investigator (PI: Dr Taha Mansouri), 2026–2029.
- Developing a Large Vision-Language Model for Digital Surveying, Innovate UK (Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Corelain Ltd), £287,332, Co-Investigator (PI: Dr Paul Coates), 2025–2028.
Completed Projects:
- ELI – Expert Legal Intelligence, Innovate UK (Collaborative R&D with Horwich Farrelly Ltd and GC Technology Solutions Ltd), £78,514 (Salford share; £355,137 total grant), Co-Investigator (PI: Dr Taha Mansouri), 2024–2025.
- AI Fairness, Bias, and Digital Sustainability, UK Government Fundings, total amount: £135,619, Co-Investigator (in collaboration with Lancaster University and the University of Manchester), 2023–2025.
- Ethical AI Auditing Tool: Commercial Validation, Innovate UK (ICURe Discover Programme), £2,500, Entrepreneurial Lead (EL), 2025.
Consultancy Projects through the University of Salford
- Bias and Fairness Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Legal Deployment, Manchester Growth Hub & Evidential Ltd, £37,728, 2024–2025.
- Development of a Personalised AI Recommendation Engine, Manchester Growth Hub & World Privilege Ltd, £19,743, 2025.
- Specialist Applied AI Safety Training Programme, RAICo, £16,000, 2024.
Areas of Supervision
At present, I am supervising a team of PhD students, Research Assistants, MPhil students and KTP Associates. Feel free to contact them for information about the supervision process or any other informal inquiries:
KTP Associates:
- Zeeshan Afzal - Z.Afzal4@edu.salford.ac.uk - Developing a VLLM based Digital Surveying Tool.
- Mohamed Maharoof - M.K.Maharoof@salford.ac.uk - Developing LLM and Vision based models for indexing, and cross-referencing both unstructured textual information and visual image assets.
- AJ Shoaib - A.J.Shoaib@salford.ac.uk - Developing Computer Vision and NLP-Based Models for Motor Insurance.
Current PhD Students:
- Yakup Keskindag - Y.Keskindag@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD in developing Privacy-Preserving Small Language Models.
- Rashid Yaghi - R.Yaghi@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD topic in AI governance.
- Gbadegesin Taiwo - g.a.taiwo@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD topic in machine vision for detecting advanced pig behaviors.
- Ali Jamali - A.Jamali1@edu.salford.ac.uk - MPhil topic in AI based recomendation systems.
- Maryam Vadikheil - M.Vadikheil@edu.salford.ac.uk - MPhil topic in Transformer-based model for deepfake detection.
PhD Students Successfully Completed
- Elham Albaroudi - PhD topic in AI fairness in job hiring.
- Kumail Abbas - PhD project in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and the University of Bristol, UK, focusing on machine vision for detecting cow behaviours.
Former Research Assistants:
Ali Jamali – A.Jamali1@edu.salford.ac.uk
– Developing recommendation systems for an industrial collaborator in Manchester (Project completed)
Manzar Malik – m.i.malik2@salford.ac.uk
– Developing Ethical LLMs (Project completed)
Zeeshan Afzal – Z.Afzal2@edu.salford.ac.uk
– Developing ASR models for legal settings (Project completed)
Hamid Kouhpeimay Jahromi – KouhpeimayJahromi1@salford.ac.uk
– Developing ethical transcribing models for legal settings (Project completed)
Ali Alameer provides full academic leadership (100%) for two modules in the MSc in AI programme. He designed and developed the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing modules.
To support student engagement, a GitHub repository for both modules has been created, enabling collaborative work and the application of state-of-the-art methods in the field. The repositories are provided below:
https://github.com/Ali-Alameer/Deep-Learning
https://github.com/Ali-Alameer/NLP
Recognitions
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ASR Models in legal settings
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AWRN
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AI based recommendation systems for World Privilege Ltd
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Invited Talk: Communicating Fairness in AI at CAISSathon 2024 - Exeter