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Hannan Azhar

Dr Hannan Azhar

Senior Lecturer

School of Engineering, Technology and Design

Dr Hannan Azhar, is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in the School of Engineering, Technology and Design at the CCCU (UK).

He has been leading in design and teaching range of modules including Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Programming and Research Methods. Dr Azhar's PhD was on AI techniques applied to pattern recognition tasks and MSc was on Evolutionary Robotics using embedded AI controller in the hardware. He has a track record of research and publications in the area of assistive technologies, AI robotics, IoT, Human and wildlife biometrics and security in ubiquitous hardware systems; such as SMART home IoT, drones etc. Over years, he has successfully secured funding in several IoT, robotics, cybersecurity and assistive technology projects in collaboration with leading SMEs in the area.

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1190-6644

Postgraduate supervisions

  • Trustworthy AI for Ambient Assisted Living (PhD)
  • Computational analysis for firearm gunshot forensics (PhD)
  • Steganography forensics using deep learning (PhD)
  • Smart and Secure Tele neurorehabilitation framework (PhD)
  • Identification of non-biting midges (Chironomidae) using deep learning techniques (MSc by Research)
  • Correlation of Distance and Damage in a Ballistic Setting - an application of Machine Learning algorithms (MSc by Research)
  • A framework for a real-time management accounting system (MSc by Research)

Recent blog

Challenges in cybercrime: Using mobile apps during a pandemic and the need for computer security professionals to lead the fight against it.

RKE Funded Internships

  • Affordable Educational Robot (2022)
  • A Web-based Physio-tool for Remote Post-stroke Rehabilitation (2021)
  • Youth survey tool for the study on street gangs and youth justice, in collaboration with Policing and Psychology at CCCU (2020).
  • A self-learned Intelligent autonomous Cyber Patrolling-bot (2019)
  • Smart Home IoT Forensics (2018)
  • Software for a BCI assistive system (2018)
  • A prototype wildlife software used by conservationists in the aid of automatic identification of the Great Crested Newts (2017)

Nuffield Research Placements (https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/)

  • 3D model of a wearable joint support (2021)

Selected RKE Activites:

  • BCI controlled Neuro-rehabilatation rehabilitation
  • Digital Forensic investigations on Smart Devices
  • Prototype image processing software developed to be used by conservationists and biologists
  • Autonomous Security Robots
  • Evaluation of the MPS Predictive Policing Trial ; http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/15974/

Ongoing Research Projects:

  • Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
  • Tele-health/rehab
  • Internet of Medical Things
  • Data science using Machine learning
  • Automatic identification of wildlife
  • Assistive Technology
  • Intelligent Robotics

Collaborators

  • NeuroRehab , East Kent Hospital , NHS, UK
  • East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
  • Kent County Council, UK
  • School of Psychology,CCCU
  • School of Human and life science , CCCU
  • Law, Criminal Justice and Policing , CCCU

Research Projects

  • Automatic non-biting midge (Chironomidae) identification through the application of object detection and deep learning techniques. Researcher(s): Mr Jack Hollister. Supervisor(s): Dr Rodrigo Vega, Dr Joseph Burman, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • DISTRIBUTED SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR LARGE SCALE DYNAMIC DATA CAPTURE AND ITS ANALYTICS. Researcher(s): Mr Oliver Prior. Supervisor(s): Dr Vijay Sahota, Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Scott Turner. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Avagnale Avagnale. Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Butcher, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Evaluation of the MPS Predictive Policing Trial (redacted). Researcher(s): Professor Robin Bryant, Dr Hannan Azhar, M. Falade. [Project report]
  • Investigation into modern Agile Software development. Researcher(s): Mr Gordon Aiken. Supervisor(s): Professor Konstantinos Sirlantzis, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Smart and Secure Tele-Neurorehabilitation Framework. Researcher(s): Mr Danny Smith. Supervisor(s): Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Soumya Manna, Dr Scott Turner. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Steganography detection using ML. Researcher(s): Ms Angela Rees. Supervisor(s): Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Scott Turner. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • The correlation of distance and damage in a ballistic setting and the dispersion of individual components of GSR’.. Researcher(s): Mr Nathan Brooke. Supervisor(s): Dr Laura Vera-Stimpson, Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Paul Stephens. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Trustworthy AI for Ambient Assisted Living. Researcher(s): Mrs MERLIN KASIRAJAN. Supervisor(s): Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Scott Turner, Dr Leishi Zhang. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Editorial Board member: Engineering Letters, International Association of Engineers. http://www.iaeng.org/online_journals.html

Member: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)

Member: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

Reviewers of the Journals : IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems ; IEEE Access ;Sensors, MDPI; Forensic Science International, Elsevier; Brain Sciences, issn 2076-3425; MethodsX, Elsevier.

Invited speaker:

    • Guest speaker at Berlin RoboChair on BCI assisted Tech, Berlin, Germany, https://onlineconference.robochair.de/speakers.html April, 2021
    • At the Arab Cybercrime and Digital forensics forum organised by Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2019
    • On "Neuro Security in Cyber services", Panel discussion on challenges in cyber services, September 2019, Portugal http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/filesCYBER19/CyberServices_ExpertPanel.pdf
    • Invited Speaker at Cyber 2019 on Drone Forensics https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/TutorialsCYBER19.html, 21 September, Porto, Portugal
    • "Forensic analysis of drones" College of Policing and The Investigator Spring National Digital Media Investigator’s (DMI) Conference, Oxford, UK,May 2019,
    • "Challenges and Techniques in Drone Forensics" at International forum for drone technology, Drone Berlin https://www.drone-berlin.de/conference.html , Berlin, Germany September, 2018.
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Contact me

hannan.azhar@canterbury.ac.uk
01227921606
Fisher (F3.05), Canterbury

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Faculty of Science, Engineering and Social Sciences
School of Engineering, Technology and Design