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Dr Muhammad Awais is a Senior Lecturer in Trustworthy and Responsible AI at the University of Surrey. He leads research on foundation models and self-supervised learning, with affiliations to the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP). His expertise spans AI ethics, audio processing, medical AI, and biometric systems.
Education: PhD in AI, MSc in AI, BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Mathematics and Physics. His research focuses on advancing AI through self-supervised learning techniques, with applications in healthcare (e.g., Parkinson’s Disease rehabilitation), transportation, and security systems. He has published extensively on topics like masked autoencoders, audio event classification, and age-invariant face recognition.
Key contributions include DailyMAE (fast autoencoder pretraining), ASiT (audio-spectrogram transformers), and AiCareGaitRehabilitation (AI-driven gait rehabilitation). His work emphasizes ethical AI deployment and cross-modal learning.
