Professor Hani Hagras
Welcome to my webpage. I am Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Director of Impact, Director of the Computational Intelligence Centre and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group, in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK. I am Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
My main research interests are in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Data Science with applications to Finance, Cyber Physical Systems, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Uncertainty Management, Intelligent Planning, Intelligent Robotics and Intelligent Control of Industrial Processes.
I authored more than 500 papers in international journals, conferences and books. I am amongst the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in the World (Scopus October 2023).
My work received funding from major research councils and industry.
I acted as Director of Research, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, and led the School submission to REF 2021 which did see Essex coming 6th in UK for Research Power in Computer Science and Informatics
My research has won numerous prestigious international awards where I was awarded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), the 2010 Outstanding Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. I was also awarded the 2015 and 2017 Global Telecommunications Business award for joint projects with British Telecom. In 2016, I was elected as Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. In 2022, I was awarded the Outstanding Associate Editor Commendation from the IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems. My work has also won best paper awards in several leading international conferences including the 2014 and 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, the 2012 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence and the 2016 BCS/SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. I was awarded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Chapter Award. In 2021, I was awarded the Best Knowledge Transfer partnership award by the University of Essex. In 2018, I was awarded by the University of Essex, the best Knowledge Transfer Partnership Academic. In 2017, I was awarded by the University of Essex, the best Research impact award for my work with British Telecom.I acted as the Principal Investigator for a project which was awarded by the UK Technology Strategy Board, the 2011 UK Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership for London and the East Region. I also acted as the Principal Investigator for a project which was awarded the 2009 Lord Stafford Achievement in Innovation Award for East of England. In 2010, I led a Research Students team to win the First place in the RoboCup 2010. In 2007, I was Shortlisted by the Times Higher Education supplement (THES) for the UK Young researcher of the year award.
I am Associate Editor of many journals including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Based Systems, Cognitive Computations and others.
I served as the General and Programme Chair of numerous major international conferences where I served as the General co-Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, and Programme Chair of the 2021 and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems as well as many other conferences
Get in touch at [hani AT essex DOT ac DOT uk]