Dr Amr Ahmed, HoS of Computer Science (UNM), was invited as “Keynote Speaker” and “Guest of Honour” to the “International Conference on Advanced Computing Techniques and Applications (ICACTA 2020)” on 5th and 6th March 2020. The conference was held in Bangalore, India, and was organised and hosted by the Reva University. Amr initially delivered a short inaugural speech and then a full keynote speaker, which included an overview of research in the school of Computer Science (UNM). During the inaugural session, Amr was treated with the traditional “Mahraja” hat and robe, as in the photo, which is traditional in Bangalore, India. Amr had various discussions with the organisers and other guests who expressed interest in research collaboration.
Guest Speaker: Dr Dave Towe “Testing the Untestable”
We had an interesting research presentation on “Metamorphic Testing: Testing the untestable”. Thanks to Dr Dave Towe. It was a really interesting and enjoyable presentation, even for those who are not particularly interested 
in software engineering. Dave managed to get all attendees engaged and encouraged us all. Well done Dave.
Dr Dave Towe (from our Nottingham Ningbo, China campus) visited us (at Nottingham Malaysia, UNM) and we had fruitful discussions on mutually beneficial topics. Dr Towe is the Deputy Head of School and Director of Teaching, school of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. This was his first visit to UNM, and we are looking forward for more visits both ways.
Plenary Talk: International Conference for Crops Improvement 2019
Invited to the ICCI2019 (International Conference for Crops Improvement 2019), at UPM (University Putra Malaysia), Dr Amr Ahmed (HoS of Computer Science, UNM) delivered a Plenary talk. The talk titled “Machine Vision & AI; from Health to AgriFood”. The main theme of the conference, this year, was “Sustainability through Data-Driven and Frontier Research”. Closely linked to our research within Computer Science in Nottingham Malaysia.
Nottingham Research Leaders Program (NRLP) – Jubilee Campus
The “Nottingham Research Leaders Program” (NRLP) group met on Wednesday 18th September, in the Jubilee Campus, as part of the series of activities for the NRLP’19.
Dr AmrAhmed, a member of the NRLP’19 cohort, attended the event during his visit to the UK. The NRLP cohort includes colleagues from the 3 campuses, from various disciplines.
Annual Academic Away Days (UK, 3 Campuses)
Dr Amr Ahmed (Head of School) attended the Annual Academic Away Days in the UK. He presented the progress and plans of the School of Computer Science (Malaysia), including Teaching and Research.
This is an annual event where representatives from the 3 campuses (UK, China, and Malaysia) meet together and discuss various teaching and research matters across the 3 campuses. It also include meetings between the heads of schools from the 3 campuses to catch up on the overall school strategies and operations.
Nottingham Research Leaders Program – Kick Start
Dr Amr Ahmed participated in the kick-start of the “Nottingham Research Leaders Program (NRLP)” in Nottingham, UK on 6th March 2019. Amr was chosen to join the program, with a total of only 17 staff members from the 3 campuses of the University of Nottingham (UK, China, and Malaysia) and only 3 from Malaysia.
The kick-start event was opened by the Nottingham Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Shearer West . The year-long program includes a week-long business trip to China (end of April) and a various workshops, training sessions,…etc.
New Journal Paper accepted and published online
A new journal paper, in the Digital Pathology, was accepted and now available online :
Ghatwary, N., Ahmed, A., Grisan E., Jalab H., Bidaut L. and Ye, X. (2019) “In-vivo Barrett’s esophagus digital pathology stage classification through feature enhancement of confocal laser endomicroscopy,” Journal of Medical Imaging 6(1), 014502 (5 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.6.1.014502
Well done to Noha Ghatwary (1st author, PhD Researcher) and all involved.
Links to the paper:
SPIE Link:
DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.6.1.014502
Researchgate Link:
Field Trip to PetroSains, KL
Another interesting Field Trip was offered to our 2nd yr students, hosted by PetroSains, KL.
A group of students, particularly studying HCI (Human Computer Interaction) modules, from the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Malaysia, visited the PetroSains (Science Museum) at Kuala Lumpur. PetroSains has invited and hosted the group for the day, where students explored and inspected the various displays with the aim of taking case studies to improve interaction designs.
The groups was led by Dr Marina Ng, the module convenor and an HCI expert, and accompanied by Dr Amr Ahmed (Head of School). Discussions with the PetroSains team was very useful and resulted on PetroSains funding the students projects and a further invitation to visit the museum again (fully funded by PetroSains) to present their designs there.
More details of the visit can be found here .
“Video Similarity Measurement and Search”, a New Book Chapter published
New book chapter was published by SpringerLink:
Bekhet, S., Hassaballah, M., Ahmed, A. , Ahmed A.H. ” Video Similarity Measurement and Search.”, book chapter in “Recent Advances in Computer Vision”, Springer, 2019, (804) pp 85-112 .
Well done to Dr Saddam Bekhet (1st author) and the team.
Full-Text is available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329698456_Video_Similarity_Measurement_and_Search
ASEAN Conference 2018 – Judge and participants
Representative researchers from the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Malaysia, participated in the ASEAN Conference 2018, at Sunway University.
Dr Amr Ahmed (Head of School – Director of the CiH research group) was invited to participate in the ASEAN conference and act as a judge for the presented posters.
Also, two PhD students (Mr Kasra Babaei and Mr Lim WeiXiang) participated and one presented a poster.