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Dr Hannan Azhar

Principal Lecturer

School of Sciences, Psychology, Arts&Humanities, Computing, Engineering & Sports

Dr Hannan Azhar, is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director.

Dr Hannan Azhar, PhD, SFHEA, is a computing academic whose work spans artificial intelligence, digital health, IoT, and cyber security. His research focuses on intelligent technologies for healthcare and other real world applications, particularly trustworthy AI, deep learning, transformer based methods, pattern recognition, and data driven approaches to complex practical challenges. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaboration, programme leadership, curriculum innovation, and external engagement, including work with partners in areas such as healthcare, ecology, and digital forensics.

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

  • Evaluation of the MPS Predictive Policing Trial (redacted). Researcher(s): Professor Robin Bryant, Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Barry Blackburn, M. Falade. [Project report]

Research Supervisor

  • A qualitative approach to examining Wearable Devices and Continuous Health Monitoring in Children with a Focus on Emerging Technologies. Researcher(s): Miss Dweetal Seetohul. Supervisor(s): Dr Soumya Manna, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • 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)]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Avagnale Avagnale. Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Butcher, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Steganography detection using ML. Researcher(s): Ms Angela Rees. Supervisor(s): Dr Hannan Azhar, Dr Scott Turner. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Swarm Intelligence Adaptions on Drones to monitor CO2 Sources: Modelling of Algorithm Performance on Evolving Environments.. Researcher(s): Mr Oliver Prior. Supervisor(s): Dr Vijay Sahota, 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. [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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School of Sciences, Psychology, Arts and Humanities, Computing, Engineering and Sport