Professor

Professor

Research Interests

• Medical 2D/3D Image Analysis: Deep Learning-based Oncological PET/CT imaging for Efficient Segmentation of Tumor Lesions. 

• Advanced Driver Assistance System: Driver’s Emotion and Gaze Classification System Based on Deep Learning. 

• Image Enhancement: Deep Perceptual Enhancement for Medical Image Analysis. 

• Semantic Segmentation: Deep learning-based Semantic Segmentation of Ocular Regions for Biometrics, Liveness Detection, and Healthcare. 

• Fuzzy System: Discriminating between intentional and unintentional gaze fixation using the multimodal-based fuzzy logic algorithm. 

Current Research Project

• Principal Research Investigator: National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (2022. Mar.01 - 2025. Feb. 28): Study on Deep Learning-based Oncological PET/CT imaging for Efficient Segmentation of Tumor Lesions from physiological Uptake Regions (Sponsor: NRF/MSTIC Korea). 

Teaching Experience

• Fall 2022: Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence (Graduate) 

• Spring 2022: Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence (Graduate) 

• Fall 2021: Probability, Statistics, and Programming (Undergraduate) 

• Fall 2021: Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence (Graduate) 

• Spring 2021: Computer Architecture & Operating System (Undergraduate) 

• Fall 2020: Algorithms and Practice (Undergraduate) 

• Spring 2020: Data Structures and Practice (Undergraduate) 

• Fall 2019: Web Programming (Undergraduate) 

Proud Moments

• Technical Program Committee 

  • Session "Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications" in Conjunction with The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies March 15 - 17, 2023, Leuven, Belgium. 

• Program Committee 

  • Session "Vision Transformers: Theory and Applications" in Conjunction with Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), Nov. 26 – Dec. 4, 2022, New Orleans, USA. 

• Guest of Honor 

  • Seminar on "Role of AI in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD)" on 4th August 2022 at Bahria School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan. 

• Guest of Honor 

  • International training on "AI and Medical Diagnostics: A Study on Deep Learning-based Semantic Segmentation" on 25th July 2022 at The Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. 

• Keynote Speaker 

  • The First International Conference on Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence (ICMPAI-2022), June 17-18 2022, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. 

• Technical Committee 

  • The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Emerging Technologies (ICEET-2021), Oct. 27-28 2021, Istanbul, Turkey. 

• Keynote Speaker 

  • The Fifth National Conference of Computer Science & Information Technology (NCCSIT-2021), Aug. 24-25 2021, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, Pakistan. 

• Runner-up 

  • in NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition June 19-25, 2021, Nashville, TN, USA. 

• Session-chair 

  • Session “Signal & Image Processing” in 1st International Conference on Engineering & Emerging Technologies (ICEET-2014) Mar. 21-22 2014, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. 

Honors & Awards

• PostDoc research fellowship at the School of Computing, Gachon University, Korea (Sep. 2018–Aug. 2019) 

• Ph.D. research assistant at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, Korea (Sep. 2014–Aug. 2018) 

• Swedish Government Scholarship Masters of Science at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Karlstad University, Sweden (Sep. 2009–Aug. 2011) 

Membership

• ACM Professional Member (2023). 

• IEEE Member (M’ 2020). 

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2020). 

• Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) (since 2019). 

Affiliation

Associate Professor

Department of  AI and Robotics, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.

Email: rizwanali@sejong.ac.kr