Research supervision
• Christopher Florides, 3/2014-present, Ph.D. student. Project Title: “Big Data Analysis for Financial Time Series”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Liang Hu, 6/2012-present, Ph.D. student. Project Title: “Dynamical State Estimation for Smart Grids”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Izaz Ur Rahman, 10/2011-present, Ph.D. student. Project Title: “Evolutionary Computation for Smart Grids”, funded by Pakistan Government and ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Rasull Karami, 10/2007-present, Ph.D. student. Project Title: “Soft Computing in Data Mining”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Sameera Alshayji, PhD awarded July 2012, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “The development of a fuzzy expert system to help top decision makers in political and investment domains\'\', funded by Ahlia University in Bahrain and ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Bachar Zineddin, PhD awarded May 2011, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “Microarray Image Processing: A Novel Neural Network Framework”, funded by Syria Government and ǰ in the U.K. Principal Supervisor. • Huihai Wu, PhD awarded Dec. 2008, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “Modelling Genetic Regulatory Networks for Structure Learning and State Estimation”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Second Supervisor. • Daniel Morris, PhD awarded Nov. 2007, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “Microarray Image Processing: Improvements towards Automation and Robustness”, funded by the ǰ BRIEF award. Principal supervisor. • Karl Fraser, PhD awarded June 2006, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “cDNA Microarray Image Analysis - A Fully Automated Framework”, funded by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Account. Principal supervisor. • Saad Qazi, PhD awarded May 2006, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “New Time-Frequency Representations Based on the Wigner Distribution Function and their Applications to Signal Processing”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Second supervisor. • Paul O\'Neill, PhD awarded Nov. 2005, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “Advanced Microarray Image Processing”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Second supervisor. • Weiguo Sheng, PhD awarded Oct. 2005, Department of Information Systems and Computing, ǰ, U.K. Project Title: “Clustering with a hybrid niching genetic algorithm”, funded by ǰ in the U.K. Second supervisor.