AHMAD NIAZ
nizahamd89@hanyan.ac.kr/niazahmad89@hanyang.ac.kr
Applied Artificial Intelligence Department
Hanyang University ERICA 5th Engineering 526(Lab), RAISE Lab (Real-time AI Systems Engineering Lab).
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in AI Department at Hanyang University ERICA. I received my master’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering in 2020 from Hanyang University South Korea, where I am currently pursuing Ph.D. in Artificial intelligence under the supervision of Prof. Youngmoon Lee youngmoonlee.com. My research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision. I am currently working on machine learning and computer vision domain of Human pose estimation & intense-level segmentation, Human action recognition, Data blending, knowledge transfer, and NLP.
Research
While AI becomes a winning paradigm in cyberspace, our goal is to realize state-of-the-art AI in physical space in real-time. I am interested in research problems in the area of real-time AI and ML, robotic sensing and applications, and networks. These research problems are often motivated by, and directly applicable to, real-world systems such as autonomous and electric cars, drones, robots, smart homes and cities, as well as human health and well-being.
Real-Time AI (Automated Driving, Robotic Vision, Sentiment Analysis)
StrongPose (ICPR'20), PosePlusSeg(AAAI'22), MultiPoseSeg(ICPR'22), HSSC (RSS'23)
News
Attended ICASSP, Sponsored by RAISE Lab.
Attended RSS, Sponsored by RAISE Lab.
SSK-DNN accepted in ICDM (congratulations)
HSSC accepted in RSS (congratulations authors)
Sentiment and Context-Aware Hybrid DNN... accepted in IEEE Access (congratulations)
MultiPoseSeg accepted in ICPR (congratulations)
PosePlusSeg accepted in AAAI (congratulations)
Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge... accepted in ACL workshops (congratulations)
Join RAISE Lab at Hanyang ERICA as a PhD in AI, working with Prof. Youngmoon Lee!
StongPose accepted in ICPR (Congratulations)
Join Machine Intelligence Lab at Hanyang ERICA as a Master in Computer Science & Engineering, working with Prof. Jongwon Yoon!
Conference/Workshop Publications
SSK-DNN: Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for Incremental Text Sentiment Classification. (IEEE ICDM "A*") Shanghai, China, Dec 1-4, 2023.
Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Chanyeok Choi, Saif Ullah, Gyurin Kim, Youngmoon Lee
HSSC: Human Semantic Segmentation using Centroid Representations. (RSS "A*") Daegu, South Korea, July 10, 2023.
Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Youngmoon Lee
MultiPoseSeg: Feedback Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation. (ICPR "B") Montreal, Canada, Aug 21-25, 2022.
Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Jeremy Yuhyun Kim, Youngmoon Lee
Joint Human Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation with PosePlusSeg. (AAAI "A*") Quebec, Canada, Feb 22- Mar 1, 2022.
Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Jeremy Yuhyun Kim, Youngmoon Lee
Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification. (ACL "A*") International Conference on Computational Linguistics Workshop Noisy User-generated Text 2022
Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Aftab Alam and Youngmoon Lee
StrongPose: Bottom-up and Strong Keypoint Heat Map Based Pose Estimation. (ICPR "B") Milan, Italy, Jan 10-15, 2021.
Niaz Ahmad, Jongwon Yoon
Journal Publications
Sentiment and Context-Aware Hybrid DNN with Attention for Text Sentiment Classification. (IEEE Access), Published: 20 March 2023
Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Shah Khalid, Farman Ali, Youngmoon Lee
Seminars
Human pose, Instance-level segmentation, Action Recognition (Course Title: Smart City & Artificial Intelligence 1)
Career
Ph.D. Candidate (2021 - Present): Applied Artificial Intelligence Department Hanyang University South Korea.
Research Assistant (2020-2021): RAISE LAB Hanyang University South Korea.
Researcher
Master's Degree (2018-2020): Compute Science & Engineering Department Hanyang University South Korea.
Research Assistant (2018-2020): Intelligent Machines Lab, Hanyang University, South Korea.
Establishing GPUs environment for high-level research purposes.
Using machine learning libraries.
High-level understanding of python API.
OpenCV
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
Network, Lab Assistant & ICT Teacher (2016–2018): The Smart School, Kanju Campus, Swat, Pakistan.
Networks & System Engineer (2016–2017): IT Excellence Center (ITEC), Project of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Networks & System Engineer (2015–2016): Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (Internee), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Awards
Department Grant Awarded for Outstanding Conference Publication, in AAAI 2022.
Hanyang International Excellence Awards 2018. (Master's Scholarship)
Hanyang International Excellence Awards 2021. (PhD Scholarship)
Mentored Students
Gyurin Kim (Hanyang University ERICA)
Saif Ullah (Hanyang University ERICA)
Jeremy Yuhyun Kim (Hanyang University ERICA)
