Amir Hussain (cognitive scientist)

Prof. Amir Hussain
Residence	Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Professor, University Of Stirling
Website	www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/
Academic background
Education	PhD University of Strathclyde
Academic work

Prof. Amir Hussain ^[1][2] is a cognitive scientist,^[3] the director of Cognitive Big Data Informatics^[4] (CogBID) Research Lab at the University Of Stirling.^[5] He is a Professor of Computing Science.^[6][7] He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer Nature’s internationally leading Cognitive Computation journal^[8] and the new Big Data Analytics journal.^[9] He is founding Editor-in-Chief for two Springer Book Series: Socio-Affective Computing^[10] and Cognitive Computation Trends,^[11] and also serves on the Editorial Board of a number of other world-leading journals including, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Systems) and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.

Key achievements

• Professor Hussain's paper, 'Application of multi-dimensional scaling and artificial neural networks for biologically inspired opinion mining',^[12] published in 2013 is one of the most highly cited papers during 2014, 2015 and up until June 2016.
• According to a recent article published in Elsevier's leading Information Processing Management journal, Prof Amir Hussain and his collaborator (and former PhD student), Dr Erik Cambria has been ranked in the world's top two most productive/influential^[13] researchers in the field of Sentiment Analysis (since 2000).

Research

Prof Hussain’s personal and collaborative research mainly centres around developing and applying novel cognitively-inspired multi-modal computational intelligence and machine learning techniques to a range of complex real-world applications. More generally, he is interested in novel cross-disciplinary research for brain-inspired modelling, analysis and control for engineering the complex systems of tomorrow – both theory and applications. 

He has authored more than 300 research papers including around 100 international journal papers, 16 co-authored/edited Books and over 60 Book chapters. He has published in leading high impact Journals including, amongst others: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Sensors Journal, Neural Networks, Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), IET Proceedings on Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Neurocomputing, Speech Communication, (IET) Electronics Letters, Journal of Theoretical Biology, and others.

Selected works

Patents

• Hussain A and Soraghan J.J., FENN Methodology: Improved Neural Network, International Patent, UK Patent Number 9624298.7, November 1996. 
• Cambria E, Hussain A, Sentic Computing, US patent, 2014

Selected books

• Cambria E, Hussain A Sentic Computing: A Common-Sense-Based Framework for Concept Level Sentiment Analysis, Springer Book Series on Socio-Affective Computing^[14]
• Abel A, Hussain  Cognitively Inspired Audiovisual Speech Filtering: Towards an Intelligent, Fuzzy Based, Multimodal, Two-Stage Speech Enhancement System ^[15]
• Cambria E, Hussain A, Sentic Computing: Techniques, Tools and Applications ^[16]

Most-cited journal articles

• Hussain, A., Cambria, E., Schuller, B., Howard, N. (2014). Affective Neural Networks and Cognitive Learning Systems for Big Data Analysis, Neural Networks, Special Issue, 58, 1-3.
• Cambria E, Livingston A, Hussain A: The Hourglass of emotions In Lecture Notes in Computer Science,(LNCS), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 7403, 144-157, 2012
• Cambria E, Havasi C, Hussain A: SenticNet 2: A Semantic and Affective Resource for Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, Marco Island, Florida. May 23–25, 2012. AAAI Press, 202-207, 2012
• Poria, S., Agarwal, Basant., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Howard, N. (2014) Dependency-Based Semantic Parsing for Concept-Level Text Analysis. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8403, 113-127

International recognition

• Founding Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation (Springer Nature Neuroscience, NY, USA)
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of new Open-Access journal: Big Data Analytics (Springer Nature / BioMed Central)
• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems
• Associate Editor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
• Associate Editor:  IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems
• Editor-in-Chief of new Book Series: SpringerBriefs on Cognitive Computation  (Springer Nature)
• Editor-in-Chief of new Book Series: Socio-Affective Computing (Springer Nature)
• IEEE UK & RI Chapter Chair: IEEE UKRI Industry Applications Society Chapter
• Founding Publications co-Chair for INNS Big Data Section and annual 2015 INNS Big Data Conference
• Publications Chair and Organizing Committee member, IEEE IJCNN2015, Killarney, Ireland, July 12–16, 2015
• Founding General Chair: Annual IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-Health (part of the flagship IEEE SSCI Conference) 
• Founding General Chair: Annual International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems

References

1. ↑ Gogate, Mandar. "Dr. Amir Hussain | Computing Science and Mathematics | University of Stirling". www.cs.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
2. ↑ "Prof Amir Hussain - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
3. ↑ "Cognitive science". Wikipedia. 2017-05-03. 
4. ↑ "CogBID Lab | Cognitive Big Data Informatics Research Lab | University Of Stirling". cogbid.cs.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
5. ↑ "University of Stirling: undergraduate courses, postgraduate courses and research in Scotland – Home – University of Stirling". www.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
6. ↑ Cochrane, Graham. "Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling". www.cs.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
7. ↑ Cochrane, Graham. "Staff List for Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, SCOTLAND". www.cs.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
8. ↑ "Cognitive Computation - incl. option to publish open access". springer.com. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
9. ↑ "Big Data Analytics". Big Data Analytics. Retrieved 2017-05-24. 
10. ↑ Socio-Affective Computing. 
11. ↑ Cognitive Computation Trends. 
12. ↑ Cambria, Erik; Mazzocco, Thomas; Hussain, Amir (2013-04-01). "Application of multi-dimensional scaling and artificial neural networks for biologically inspired opinion mining". Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. 4: 41–53. doi:10.1016/j.bica.2013.02.003. 
13. ↑ Piryani, R.; Madhavi, D.; Singh, V. K. (2017-01-01). "Analytical mapping of opinion mining and sentiment analysis research during 2000–2015". Information Processing & Management. 53 (1): 122–150. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2016.07.001. 
14. ↑ Sentic Computing - A Common-Sense-Based Framework for | Erik Cambria | Springer. 
15. ↑ Cognitively Inspired Audiovisual Speech Filtering - Towards an | Andrew Abel | Springer. 
16. ↑ Sentic Computing - Techniques, Tools, and Applications | Erik Cambria | Springer. 

External links

• Official Page
• Cognitive Big Data Informatics (CogBID) Lab
• Google Scholar
• dblp: computer science bibliography
• ResearchGate