Dr. Sadaqat ur Rehman
School of Science, Engineering and Environment
Current positions
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
Biography
Sadaqat ur Rehman is an experienced researcher with more than 10 years of cutting-edge research and teaching experience in prestigious institutes including Tsinghua University China (ranked 15th in the world according to QS-2021), ETH Zurich Switzerland (ranked 6th in the world according to QS-2021), Namal Institute -Associated Institute of the University of Bradford, UK and Sarhad University of Science and IT Pakistan.
He has supervised several PhD, MS and undergraduate students in their dissertation. He has co-authored more than 60 research papers (800 Google Citations), including in leading international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. He has taught various courses both at Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) levels during his career.
He regularly organizes timely special sessions and workshops for several flagship IEEE conferences. He is an invited reviewer for numerous world-leading high-impact journals such as IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Neurocomputing, IEEE Access, Neural Networks, Scientific Reports - Nature.
He is recognised as a Global Talent in the area of Artificial Intelligence by UK Research and Innovation Body and Royal Academy of Engineering.
Areas of research
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing, Optimization
Areas of supervision
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing, Optimization
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Programming
- Computer Vision
- Computer Architecture
- Discrete Mathematics
- Deep Learning for Computer Vision applications – Scene and Object Recognition, Video Surveillance and Monitoring, Facial Classification, Emotion Recognition.
- Deep Learning for Healthcare applications - Abnormal Arrhythmia Detection, Breast Cancer Detection, MRI, X-rays, CT-Scans.
Qualifications
- 2019 PhD in Machine Intelligence
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - 2014 MSc Machine Learning
Sarhad University of Science and IT, Pakistan - 2011 BSc Computer Systems Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
Memberships
- 2018 – Present Member of IEEE
- 2012 – Present Member of Pakistan Engineering Council