Research topics
We combine deep learning, speech/signal processing and computer vision to develop human-centric AI technologies for domains of direct societal importance. Our group is currently working on the following topics:
Affect and mental health: Emotion from verbal and non-verbal cues, anxiety and depression detection, monitoring and intervention for wellbeing
Privacy and bias: Privacy risks and mitigation in speech AI models for affect and behaviour analysis, bias in facial expression perception, diversity & inclusion in screen media.
Activity and interaction: Driver activity monitoring for L2+, pedestrian and crowd monitoring for AV and surveillance, action forecasting, human-human interaction modeling for human-robot interactions.
Research support
CoI (Glasgow PI): Women, Ageing, and Machine Learning on Screen | Leverhulme Trust | 2024 - 2027
CoI : WearAI | AI Safety Institute UK | 2025 - 2026
CoI: Digital Sensing and Intervention for Wellbeing (PhD studentship) | Nokia Bell Labs | 2024
PI: TinyFaces | UK Defence & Security Accelerator | 2023 - 2024
PI: Latent Graph Learning and Classification | Intel Corporation | 2022 - 2023
PI: Multimodal Learning for In-Car Driver Activity Monitoring | Ford University Research Program | 2021 - 2023
PI: Application-aware Image Quality Assessment | Indian Space Research Organization | 2016 - 2018
CoI: Holistic Scene Understanding | Samsung Research | 2017 - 2018
PI: NVIDIA Academic GPU Grant | 2017
Current team members
PhD students (primary/joint supervision)
Amey Noolkar
Benjamin Gutierrez Serafin
Nesreen Alareef
Sahar Altalhi
PhD students (secondary supervision)
Max Christou
Michael Mooney
Morad Elfleet
Raphael Cunningham
Sundas Rafat Mulkana
Past team members
PhD graduates
University of Glasgow
Basmah Alsenani | March 2025 | After graduation: Lecturer @ Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
University of Warwick
Jiashu Liao | January 2024 | After graduation: Research Associate @ Lancaster University, UK
Debaleena Roy | June 2023 | After graduation: Teaching Fellow @ Aston University, UK
Amir Shirian | November 2022 | After graduation: Data Scientist @ Nokia UK
Olly Styles | January 2022 | After graduation: Head of Data Science @ Atlas AI, UK
Postdoctoral research associate
Evdoxia Taka (01/2024 - 01/2025) | Next role: Research Associate @ University of Glasgow
Ozan Bahadir (03/2023 - 03/2024) | Next role: Assistant Professor @ National Defence University, Turkey
Visiting research students
Monika Gahalawat (09/2024 - 12/2024) | Visited from Uni of Canberra, Australia