Fahad Ahmad

Fahad Ahmad is a Lecturer in the School of Computing within the Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth. He holds affiliations with the Portsmouth AI and Data Science Centre, Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime, and Portsmouth Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing. His research focuses on machine learning applications in healthcare, cybersecurity, and quantum computing. He supervises PhD students in topics like quantum machine learning for securing IoT medical devices.

Key research areas include:

• Medical imaging diagnostics using deep learning (e.g., echocardiograms, X-rays)
• Cybersecurity for financial systems and SDN-NFV networks
• Quantum key distribution for post-quantum security
• AI-driven health management systems

Recent work emphasizes:

• Human activity recognition through machine learning
• Cancer subtype classification using RNA expression data
• Emotional empathy modeling in intelligent agents

His articles span healthcare technology, cybersecurity frameworks, and hybrid AI architectures. He actively contributes to international conferences and journals, with over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Research collaborations include institutions in Pakistan and the UK.