Ahmad Reza Naghsh Nilchi | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Ahmad Reza Naghsh Nilchi | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Faculty Member | University of Isfahan | Iran

Prof. Ahmad Reza Naghsh-Nilchi is a distinguished researcher in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and medical image processing with a strong academic and professional background. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, where he specialized in digital image processing, and has since built an influential career in both academia and research. Over the years, he has served in multiple leadership positions including department chair, dean of research, and head of research laboratories, while also supervising numerous PhD and master’s students in advanced AI and imaging topics. His professional experience extends internationally through collaborations with leading institutions such as UC Irvine, University of Toronto, York University, and University of Ireland, contributing significantly to global research initiatives. His research interests span robust deep learning, adversarial defense, trustworthy AI, multimodal action recognition, image captioning, retinal analysis, and robot-camera pose estimation, reflecting both theoretical innovation and practical applications. He has published more than 70 papers in prestigious journals and conferences indexed by IEEE and Scopus, and his work has received more than 2,200 citations. His excellence has been recognized through multiple honors, including awards as University Researcher of the Year and Industrial Researcher of the Year. He possesses advanced research skills in AI model development, medical imaging, digital signal processing, and multimodal data analysis, complemented by editorial roles, conference organization, and active memberships in professional associations such as IEEE and ACM. His career demonstrates a commitment to advancing science, mentoring the next generation, and fostering impactful interdisciplinary collaborations. His Scopus output reflects international impact, with 1,319 citations by 1,214 documents, 65 published documents, and an h-index of 21.

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Featured Publications

Fathi, A., & Naghsh-Nilchi, A. R. (2012). Noise tolerant local binary pattern operator for efficient texture analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(9), 1093–1100.

Fathi, A., & Naghsh-Nilchi, A. R. (2012). Efficient image denoising method based on a new adaptive wavelet packet thresholding function. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21(9), 3981–3990.

Fathi, A., & Naghsh-Nilchi, A. R. (2013). Automatic wavelet-based retinal blood vessels segmentation and vessel diameter estimation. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 8(1), 71–80.

Amirgholipour, S. K., & Ahmad, R. (2009). Robust digital image watermarking based on joint DWT-DCT. International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, 3(2), 42–48.*

Kasmani, S. A., & Naghsh-Nilchi, A. (2008). A new robust digital image watermarking technique based on joint DWT-DCT transformation. In 2008 Third International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology (pp. 539–544). IEEE.

Prof. Kalfalla Awedat | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Kalfalla Awedat | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Professor at SUNY Morrisville College, United States

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Advanced fault detection in photovoltaic panels using enhanced U-Net architectures

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Gurcan Comert, Mustafa Ayad, Abdulmajid Mrebit
    Journal: Machine Learning with Applications
    Year: 2025

COVID-CLNet: COVID-19 Detection With Compressive Deep Learning Approach

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa
    Journal: International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP)
    Year: 2022

Novel Robust Augmentation Approach Based on Sensing Features for Data Classification

  • Authors: Masoud M Alajmi, Khalfalla A Awedat
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2021

COVID-CLNet: COVID-19 Detection with Compressive Deep Learning Approaches

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa
    Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02234
    Year: 2020

Efficient face recognition using regularized adaptive non-local sparse coding

  • Authors: Masoud Alajmi, Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa, Fawaz Alassery, Osama S Faragallah
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2019

Dr. Aiai Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Aiai Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

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Quantitative Analysis of Pore Characteristics of Nanocellulose Reinforced Cementitious Tailings Fills Using 3D Reconstruction of CT Images

  • Authors: Wang, Aiai; Cao, Shuai; Yilmaz, Erol
    Journal: Journal of Materials Research and Technology
    Year: 2023

Prof. Haigen Hu | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Haigen Hu | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China

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Multipath and noise resilient direction of arrival method for low-cost mechanical arm calibration

  • Authors: Hanmo Chen, Qianwei Zhou, Haigen Hu, Baoqing Li
    Journal: Computers and Electrical Engineering
    Year: 2025

Pruning Networks only Using Few-shot Pre-training Based on Gradient Similarity Frequency

  • Authors: Haigen Hu, Huihuang Zhang, Qianwei Zhou, Tieming Chen
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
    Year: 2025

An anchor-free instance segmentation method for cells based on mask contour

  • Authors: Qi Chen, Huihuang Zhang, Qianwei Zhou, Qiu Guan, Haigen Hu
    Journal: Applied Intelligence
    Year: 2025

RMFDNet: Redundant and Missing Feature Decoupling Network for salient object detection

  • Authors: Qianwei Zhou, Jintao Wang, Jiaqi Li, Haigen Hu, Keli Hu
    Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Year: 2025

A comprehensive survey on contrastive learning

  • Authors: Haigen Hu, Xiaoyuan Wang, Yan Zhang, Qi Chen, Qiu Guan
    Journal: Neurocomputing
    Year: 2024

Ms. Beenish Khalid | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Ms. Beenish Khalid | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

National University of Sciences and Technology , Islamabad, Sweden

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A triple-shallow CNN with genetic algorithm channel selection method for classifying EEG complex limb movements

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Ali Hassan, Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Fasih Uddin Butt, Wadood Abdul, Imran Khan Niazi
    Journal: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    Year: 2025

EMD and VMD in Pre-Movement EEG Signal Analysis: A Hybrid Mode Selection to Classify Upper Limb Complex Movements Using Statistical Features

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Ali Hassan, Ehsan Ullah Munir, Imran Khan Niazi
    Journal: 2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
    Year: 2023

EEG Compression Using Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering and Wavelet Based Subband Coding

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Muhammad Majid, Imran Fareed Nizami, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Majdi Alnowamii
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2020

Ms. Chetna Kwatra | Deep Learning | Women Researcher Award

Ms. Chetna Kwatra | Deep Learning | Women Researcher Award

Lovely Professional University, India

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Harnessing ensemble deep learning models for precise detection of gynaecological cancers

  • Authors: C.V. Kwatra, Chetna Vaid, H. Kaur, Harpreet, S.P. Potharaju, Sai Prasad, D.B. Jadhav, Devyani Bhamare, S.B. Tambe, Sagar B.
    Journal: Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
    Year: 2025

Dr. Meng Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Meng Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Xi’an Polytechnic University, China

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Place Your Next Branch with MILE-RUN: Min-dist Location Selection over User Movement

  • Author: Meng Wang
    Journal: Information Sciences
    Year: 2018

PINOCCHIO: Probabilistic Influence-Based Location Selection over Moving Objects

  • Author: Meng Wang
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
    Year: 2016

Dr. Sageengrana S | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Sageengrana S | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

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Optimized RB-RNN: Development of hybrid deep learning for analyzing student’s behaviours in online-learning using brain waves and chatbots

  • Authors: S. Sageengrana, S. Subramanian Selvakumar, S. Selvaraj Srinivasan
    Journal: Expert Systems with Applications
    Year: 2024

Mr. Hailong Ning | Deep Learning | Best Scholar Award

Mr. Hailong Ning | Deep Learning | Best Scholar Award

XI’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China

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Orientational clustering learning for open-set hyperspectral image classification

  • Authors: Hao Xu, Wenjing Chen, Cheng Tan, Hailong Ning, Hao Sun, Wei Xie
  • Journal: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Year: 2024

An ensemble learning-enhanced multitask learning method for continuous affect recognition from facial images

  • Authors: Ercheng Pei, Zhanxuan Hu, Lang He, Hailong Ning, Abel Díaz Berenguer
  • Journal: Expert Systems with Applications
  • Year: 2024

Hierarchical Semantic-Guided Contextual Structure-Aware Network for Spectral Satellite Image Dehazing

  • Authors: Lei Yang, Jianzhong Cao, Hua Wang, Sen Dong, Hailong Ning
  • Journal: Remote Sensing
  • Year: 2024

Remote Sensing Image Dehazing via Dual-View Knowledge Transfer

  • Authors: Lei Yang, Jianzhong Cao, He Bian, Rui Qu, Huinan Guo, Hailong Ning
  • Journal: Applied Sciences
  • Year: 2024

Ultra-Lightweight Spatial-Spectral Feature Cooperation Network for Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Authors: Tao Lei, Xinzhe Geng, Hailong Ning*, Zhiyong Lv, Maoguo Gong, Yaochu Jin, Asoke K. Nandi
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Year: 2023

Dr. Sitara Afzal | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Sitara Afzal | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Sejong University, South Korea

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A comprehensive survey on affective computing; challenges, trends, applications, and future directions

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Haseeb Ali Khan, Md Jalil Piran, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: IEEE access
  • Year: 2024

Construction of a uniform zeolitic imidazole framework (ZIF-8) nanocrystal through a wet chemical route towards supercapacitor application

  • Authors: Iqra Rabani, Je-Won Lee, Taeyoon Lim, Hai Bang Truong, Sobia Nisar, Sitara Afzal, Young-Soo Seo
  • Journal: RSC advances
  • Year: 2024

Leveraging Augmented Reality, Semantic-Segmentation, and VANETs for Enhanced Driver’s Safety Assistance.

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Imran Ullah Khan, Irfan Mehmood, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: Computers, Materials & Continua
  • Year: 2024

PlantView: Integrating deep learning with 3D modeling for indoor plant augmentation

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Haseeb Ali Khan, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: Ecological Informatics
  • Year: 2024

Deep-learning-assisted business intelligence model for cryptocurrency forecasting using social media sentiment

  • Authors: Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Attique, Khalid Latif, Ghulam Mujtaba Chaudhary, Sitara Afzal, Kamran Ahmed, Farhan Shahzad
  • Journal: Journal of Enterprise Information Management
  • Year: 2023