Role
Dr Abdallah Naser is a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé, where he is also a member of the Computational Intelligence and Applications (CIA) research group.
Career overview
Dr Abdallah Naser received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Cyprus Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé University with High-Honour and his MSc in Information Security and Biometrics with Distinction from the University of Kent, UK. His PhD thesis is entitled “Privacy-preserving Human Behaviour Monitoring Through Thermal Vision”, which extends on his research output conducted as part of his PhD study at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé.
Dr Abdallah Naser was granted a patent for inventing a new way to secure online accounts using concepts of pattern recognition from the Palestinian patent office. Furthermore, he has led and developed several technical solutions for different sectors.
Research areas
Dr Abdallah's current research focuses on computational intelligence, sensor signal processing, and image processing towards enabling privacy-preserving human-centred applications.
External activity
Regular Reviewer for the following journals
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- IET Image Processing Journal
- Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Journal
- Springer Nature Technical Report
Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference Activity
- Workshop Organiser - Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding (NOTION) at The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference. Corfu, Greece, 5-7 July, 2023.
- Workshop Organiser - Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding (NOTION) at The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference. Corfu, Greece, 29th June - 2nd July, 2022.
Research Students Supervision
- Maria Drolence Mwanje
- Selwan Abdussalam
External Research Funding
Dr Naser’s research has attracted over £4 million in both research funding projects and consultations. Details of the latest awarded project are below.
- £11.4m (NTU share: £4.7-5.2M), Ofgem-funded, “Cyber Security – Hybrid Virtualisation (HV)”, 2024–2028, Co-PI
Publications
Journals:
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., MWANJE, M.D. and ZHONG, J., 2022. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. ISSN 2168-2291
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. IEEE Sensors Letters. ISSN 2475-1472
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2021. Neural Computing and Applications. ISSN 0941-0643
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2020. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X
Conferences:
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2021. In: The 14th ACM Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments PETRA 2021. Conference proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 81-85. ISBN 9781450387927
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., ZHONG, J. and HE, J., 2020. In: 2020 IEEE Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). IEEE. ISBN 9781728169330
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., ZHONG, J. and HE, J., 2020. In: PETRA '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781450377737