Staff Profile
Dr Husnain Sherazi
Director of Student Recruitment, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computing
- Email: husnain.sherazi@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 191 2083988
- Address: Office 3.048
Urban Sciences Building
1 Science Square
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5TG
Husnain Sherazi is an experienced researcher and academician, with over 12 years of teaching & cutting-edge research experience in Computer Science and self-sustained IoT systems, currently serving as Director of Student Recruitment and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer and Program Director for B.Sc. IT Management for Business (ITMB) at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK. He was a Researcher at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland from Sep. 2020 to May 2021. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at GIFT University and Adjunct Professor at Superior University, Pakistan during the Spring 2020. Husnain earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy on the Ministerial Fellowship in 2018 where he also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher from Nov. 2018 to Oct. 2019. He has been on a research exchange at the University of Glasgow, UK from May 2017 to Jan. 2018.
During his professional career spanned across different countries, he has been a part of renowned research projects, acquired research grants, supervised research dissertations, developed programs, and contributed to the design & delivery of a range of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has previously served on a number of senior administrative roles in academia including Director of Student Outreach, Program Director for B.Sc. ITMB, Lead on Research and Knowledge Exchange, and Head of Intelligent Systems and Industrial Automation research group, to name a few. Over 70 articles in top-tier journals and conferences are on his credit. He is serving as Associate Editor (Ad Hoc Networks), Executive Editor (Internet Technology Letter), Topic Editor (Electronics), and Guest Editor for a number of prestigious journals. Husnain regularly chairs sessions and serves on the Technical Program Committee for world's renowned conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE VTC. Moreover, he is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Senior Member IEEE, Member ACM, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Communications Society, British Computing Society, and the IET.
His research interests broadly span the areas of Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles and Drones, Energy Harvesting, Industrial Automation, Blockchain Technologies, and Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Quantum Computing. Specifically, his research addresses energy efficiency and sustainability issues in IoT networks by promoting green communications through designing energy harvesting techniques and methodologies suitable for low power systems for network operators and mobile users perspective in heterogeneous IoT networks.
Past PhD Students:
- Smart Farming off to a Flying Start with Self-Sustained Internet of Trees (Zanab Safdar - School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, United Kingdom)
- Development of a software platform for smart city based on self-adaptation and big data analytics. (Mubashir Ali - University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)
- Software defined networks based virtualized network service infrastructures. (Awais Aziz Shah - Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy)
- Sensor-Based Systems, Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Prediction Algorithms for the Energy Data of Smart Homes (Asad Hussain - University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)
Currently accepting new PhD students interested in working under his supervision. The full list of his publications is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7Qp4GhQAAAAJ&hl
He has designed and delivered a number of modules including, but not limited to the following:
- Computer Systems (Module Leader); Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 74, Autumn 21.
- Information Systems and Databases (Module Leader); Level 5, Hybrid Mode (F2F & online), Huge Cohort of 398 students, Spring 22.
- Machine Learning; Level 7, Hybrid Mode (F2F & online), Cohort of 65 students, Sem1, 2022-2023.
- Computer Architecture; Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 30, PT-SAT, Spring 22.
- Introduction to Computer Technologies (Module Leader); Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 106, Autumn 21.
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Articles
- Rashid U, Mukhtar F, Waqar O, Asif W, Sherazi HHR. Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted integrated information and energy networks in D2D communications. Internet Technology Letters 2024, epub ahead of print.
- Ali M, Scandurra P, Moretti F, Sherazi HHR. Anomaly Detection in Public Street Lighting Data Using Unsupervised Clustering. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 2024, 70(1), 4524-4535.
- Noor-A-Rahim M, John J, Firyaguna F, Sherazi HHR, Kushch S, Vijayan A, O'Connell E, Pesch D, O'Flynn B, O'Brien W, Hayes M, Armstrong E. Wireless Communications for Smart Manufacturing and Industrial IoT: Existing Technologies, 5G and Beyond. Sensors 2023, 23(1), 73.
- Hassan B, Sherazi HHR, Ali M, Siddiqi Y. Estimating Anthropometric Soft Biometrics: An Empirical Method. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing 2023, 37(3), 2727-2743.
- Mushtaq H, Deng X, Ali M, Hayat B, Sherazi HHR. DFA-SAT: Dynamic Feature Abstraction with Self-Attention-Based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving. Sustainability 2023, 15, 18.
- Hassan B, Fiaz M, Sherazi HHR, Butt UJ. Annotated Pedestrians: A Dataset for Soft Biometrics Estimation for Varying Distances. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing 2023, 17(3), 699-707.
- Hassan B, Sherazi HHR, Ali M, Bashir AK. A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2023, 2023(1), 65.
- Ali M, Baqir A, Sherazi HHR, Hussain A, Alshehri AH, Imran MA. Machine Learning Based Psychotic Behaviors Prediction from Facebook Status Updates. Computers, Materials and Continua 2022, 72(2), 2411-2427.
- Awan KM, Sherazi HHR, Ali A, Iqbal R, Khan ZA, Mukherjee M. Energy-aware cluster-based routing optimization for WSNs in the livestock industry. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2022, 33(3), e3816.
- Hussain A, Alam S, Ghauri SA, Ali M, Sherazi HHR, Akhunzada A, Bibi I, Gani A. Automatic Modulation Recognition Based on the Optimized Linear Combination of Higher-Order Cumulants. Sensors 2022, 22(19), 7488.
- Sherazi HHR, Zorbas D, O'Flynn B. A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants. Sensors 2022, 22(8), 2990.
- Butt UM, Letchmunan S, Hassan FH, Ali M, Baqir A, Koh TW, Sherazi HHR. Spatio-Temporal Crime Predictions by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Citizens Security in Smart Cities. IEEE Access 2021, 9, 47516-47529.
- Butt UM, Letchmunan S, Ali M, Hassan FH, Baqir A, Sherazi HHR. Machine Learning Based Diabetes Classification and Prediction for Healthcare Applications. Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2021, 2021, 9930985.
- Sherazi HHR, Grieco LA, Imran MA, Boggia G. Energy-Efficient LoRaWAN for Industry 4.0 Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2021, 17(2), 891-902.
- Haq IU, Anwar A, Rehman IU, Asif W, Sobnath D, Sherazi HHR, Nasralla MM. Dynamic Group Formation with Intelligent Tutor Collaborative Learning: A Novel Approach for Next Generation Collaboration. IEEE Access 2021, 9, 143406-143422.
- Khan ZA, Sherazi HHR, Ali M, Imran MA, Ur Rehman I, Chakarbarti P. Designing a wind energy harvester for connected vehicles in green cities. Energies 2021, 14(17), 5408.
- Khan T, Sherazi HHR, Ali M, Letchmunan S, Butt UM. Deep learning-based growth prediction system: A use case of china agriculture. Agronomy 2021, 11(8), 1551.
- Dar Z, Ahmad A, Khan FA, Zeshan F, Iqbal R, Sherazi HHR, Bashir AK. A context-aware encryption protocol suite for edge computing-based IoT devices. Journal of Supercomputing 2020, 76(4), 2548-2567.
- Ahmed MJ, Iqbal S, Awan KM, Sattar K, Khan ZA, Sherazi HHR. A Congestion Aware Route Suggestion Protocol for Traffic Management in Internet of Vehicles. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2020, 45(4), 2501-2511.
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Book Chapter
- Bandyopadhyay SK, Goyal V, Dutta S, Pramanik S, Sherazi HHR. Unseen to seen by digital steganography: Modern-day data-hiding techniques. In: Multidisciplinary Approach to Modern Digital Steganography. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021, pp.1-28.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Sherazi HHR, Arif S, Munir MS, Ali M, Hassan B, Siddiqi Y. Utilizing Internet of Things for Automating Food Security and Savvy Agriculture: A Review. In: 28th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2023). 2023, Birmingham, UK: IEEE.
- Sherazi HHR, Asif W, Khan ZA. 5G enabled Realtime Healthcare System for Heart Patients. In: IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2021). 2021, Manchester, UK: IEEE.
- Atchome AM, Sherazi HHR, Alahassa R, Tossa F, Edoh TO, Grieco LA, Vianou AC. A hybrid network model embracing NB-IoT and D2D Communications: Stochastic geometry analysis. In: e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 11th EAI International Conference (AFRICOMM 2019). 2020, Porto-Novo, Benin: Springer.
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Reviews
- Ur Rehman I, Sobnath D, Nasralla MM, Winnett M, Anwar A, Asif W, Sherazi HHR. Features of mobile apps for people with autism in a post Covid-19 scenario: Current status and recommendations for apps using AI. Diagnostics 2021, 11(10), 1923.
- Butt UM, Letchmunan S, Hassan FH, Ali M, Baqir A, Sherazi HHR. Spatio-Temporal Crime HotSpot Detection and Prediction: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Access 2020, 8, 166553-166574.