Accepting PhD Students

    PhD projects

    Looking for PhD students who want to explore and address research problems in the following topics:
    - Ethics and Data Bias in AI-enabled Healthcare Systems
    - Explainable Artificial Intelligence for computer vision tasks
    - Machine learning approaches in medical image analysis.

    Personal profile

    Research Interests

    • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
    • Medical Imaging analysis
    • Explainable AI
    • Applications of Machine Learning in Medicine and Business

    Teaching Activity

    • Programme Lead of the MSc AI for Health
    • (CS2IAI) Introduction to Artificial Intellegence
    • (CS2TP) Team Project
    • (CS4870) Team Project

    Employment

    • (Jun 2024 – present) Senior Lecturer at Applied AI and Robotics department, College of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Aston University, UK.
    • (Sep 2021 – Jun 2024) Lecturer at at Applied AI and Robotics department, College of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Aston University, UK.
    • (Jan 2020 – Aug 2021) Senior Lecturer at school of Computing and Digital Technology, Faculty of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment (CEBE), Birmingham City University (BCU), UK
    • (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019) Lecturer at school of Computing and Digital Technology, CEBE, BCU, UK
    • (Aug 2015 - Dec 2018) Research Fellow at the Institute of clinical sciences, School of Dentistry, The University of Birmingham (UoB), UK.
    • (Sep 2014 – Jul 2015) Teaching Fellow at The School of Computer Science, UoB, UK.
    • (Jan 2014 – Sep 2014) Research Fellow in Machine Learning at The School of Computer Science, UoB, UK.
    • (Mar 2009 – Apr 2010) Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology - Computer Science Department, German University in Cairo (GUC), Cairo, Egypt.
    • (Sep 2004 – Feb 2009) Teaching Assistance, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences – Information System Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

    PhD Supervision

    Co-supervising the following RA and PhD research projects:

    • (2025 – present) Developing a Digital Twin of the Lungs for Enhanced Treatment Simulation in a Metaverse Environment  Aston University - second supervisor. 
    • (2024 – present)  Responsible AI-Driven Decision Support Systems for Enhanced Paediatric Healthcare.  Aston University, Main supervisor. 
    • (2024 – present) Unlocking sleep patterns with advanced data-driven models. Aston University, second supervisor. 
    • (2023 – present) Applications of machine learning in paediatric medical imaging segmentation triaging, Engineering for Health. Aston University, second supervisor. 
    • RA Supervision (Jan – June 2025) Generative AI to improve Medical Education (EPS and Aston Medical School)
    • RA Supervision (Jan – Nov 2025) EPSRC Impact Builder funding.
    • RA Supervision (Jan – March 2024) ADFI prime funding.
    • RA Supervision (April – July 2022) RKE prime funding

    Completed PhD supervision:

    • (2019 - 2025) Intrusion Detection for Industrial Control Systems by Machine Learning using Privileged Information. BCU, External supervisor 
    • (2018 - 2022) Machine Learning Framework for Intelligent Detection of Phishing Websites. Award receievd in 2022. Birmingham City University.

    Key research projects

    • (Jan 25 - Jan 28, Aston University) PhD studentship. Responsible AI-Driven Decision Support Systems for Enhanced Paediatric Healthcare, Principal Investigator (£40,000). Funder: Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital
    • (Nov 24 - June 25, Aston University) HLS Teaching Research Fund: Interdisciplinary collaboration to drive innovation in medical education. Co-Principal Investigator (£1,500). Aim: develop an AI Enabled Communication Training Tool for Medical Education using Large Language Models (LLM) – particularly GPT and BART models Funder: College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University
    • (Oct 2024 - Oct 2025, Aston University) UKRI IAA Impact Builder Award, Principal Investigator (£33,120.52): Responsible AI in Medical Imaging: An Interdisciplinary Educational Initiative. Aim: fill in the AI knowledge gap in NHS organisations by developing and delivering bespoke online educational materials for healthcare providers on responsible AI in healthcare, with a focus on medical imaging. Partners: Sandwell Hospital NHS TrustACAIRA. Funder: UKRI
    • (Jan 2024 – Jul 2024, Aston University) ADFI: Pump priming funds. Designing a Human-Centric User Interface for an Explainable Artificial Intelligence Tool in Radiology Imaging. Principal Investigator (£3000). Partners: Sandwell Hospital NHS Trust, The Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute. Funder: The Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute
    • (Mar 2022 – Mar 2023, Aston University) RKE pump priming fund. Explainable AI-enabled diagnostic tools for detecting respiratory diseases. The tool was evaluated by 26 NHS medical professionals through an ethically approved user study. Principal Investigator (£14000). Partners: Sandwell Hospital NHS Trust . Funder: Aston University, RKE
    • (July 2021 – Dec 2025, Aston University) ESRC project “Understanding how servitization can impact UK economic productivity and environmental performance” (www.servitization.ac.uk). Co-investigator - Leverage data analytic methods to understand relationship between servitization, productivity, and environmental performance1,512,864). Partners: Aston Business School and Business School, Warwick University. Funder: UKRI, ESRC
    • (2019 – 2021, Birmingham City University) The PERSEUS project - Project Perseus led by Jaguar Land Rover. Aim: help JLR and six other car industry partners transition from the manufacturing of diesel/petrol engines to electric vehicles (EV). Birmingham City University's contribution to the project was to develop and deliver purpose-made Continuous Performance Development (CPD) training courses in industry 4.0 and AI technology. Principle investigator (£199,000). Funder: Innovate UK/APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre)
    • (2019 – 2021, Birmingham City University) Project leader for Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with 4Net Technologies (£ 210,523). Aim: leverage AI technology to contact centres for personalised interactions with customers Funder: Innovate UK
    • (2020 – 2021, Birmingham City University) Academic supervisor for KTP project with MET (£181,788) – July 2020. Aim: develop AI-based solutions for Security Operation Centre to improve threat detection accuracy and speed. Funder: Innovate UK
    • (2018 – 2020, Birmingham City University) Academic advisor for Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with Kadfire (£136,487). Aim: develop AI-powered mobile Application for improved train services. Funder: Innovate UK
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    Education/Academic qualification

    SFHEA, Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy - 2024, Aston University

    2004 → …

    Award Date: 1 Jun 2024

    PhD, Ph.D. in Machine Learning - 2013, The School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham

    1 Apr 20101 Aug 2013

    Award Date: 1 Sept 2013

    MSc, Computer and Information Sciences - 2005, Ain Shams University

    20042005

    Award Date: 1 Jun 2005

    BSc, Computer and Information Sciences - 2000, Ain Shams University

    19962000

    Award Date: 1 Aug 2000

    External positions

    Guest Editor in Journal of Applied Sciences

    26 Feb 20251 Oct 2025

    Expert member in British Standards Institution (BSI) - Medical Devices & AI, Software and Systems

    18 Dec 2024 → …

    Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Birmingham, College of Clinical Sciences

    30 Sept 201930 Sept 2026

    Keywords

    • QA76 Computer software
    • Machine learning
    • Medical imaging
    • Data mining
    • natural language processing
    • Applications of Machine Learning in Business

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