معرفی
Ahmad Lotfi is a Professor of Computational Intelligence and Head of Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University, with a Visiting Professor role at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He leads the Computational Intelligence and Applications (CIA) research group and has supervised over 30 PhD students to completion.
- PhD in Learning Fuzzy Systems (University of Queensland, 1995)
- MTech in Control Systems (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
- BSc in Control Systems (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran)
His research spans computational intelligence, ambient intelligence, robotics, and machine learning, with applications in dementia monitoring, smart environments, and healthcare technology. Recent work focuses on using thermal sensor arrays for privacy-preserving human activity analysis.
He has secured funding from Innovate UK, EPSRC, The Royal Society, and Horizon 2020, with projects like iCarer (assistive living), SmartBerry (agricultural AI), and BigSpark (financial data augmentation). His 15 most recent articles demonstrate expertise in Wi-Fi-based activity recognition, EEG fall detection, and thermal sensor fusion.
- Senior Member IEEE
- Member of British Computer Society (MBCS)
- Editorial roles in Soft Computing and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
He has served as Program Chair for conferences like PETRA and ICCRT, and as Keynote Speaker at PETRA 2023. His 28+ years of academic leadership include organizing UKCI and UKRAS conferences.
