Profile

Abbes Amira received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2001 from Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. Since then, he has taken many academic and consultancy positions in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and the Middleast. He is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media at De Montfort University, United Kingdom.

Between 2017 and 2019, he was the Associate Dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Engineering at Qatar University, Qatar. In the United Kingdom, he has previously taken academic and leadership positions at Queen’s University Belfast, Brunel University London and the University of Ulster.

During his career to date, Prof. Amira has been successful in securing substantial funding from government agencies and industry; he has supervised more than 25 PhD students and has over 350 publications in top journals and conferences in the area of embedded systems, IoT, image and signal processing.

He obtained many international awards, including the 2008 VARIAN prize offered by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics, CAST award, DELL-EM Envision the future (2018), IET premium award (2017) and many best paper and recognition awards in IEEE international conferences and events.

Prof. Amira has participated as guest editor and member of the editorial board in many international journals including recent special issues in IEEE IoT Journal and Elsevier Pattern Recognition.

He has taken visiting professor positions at the University of Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia and the University of Nancy, Henri Poincare, France. Prof. Amira has also conducted consultancy services for several government agencies and companies in the private sector.

He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior member of the IEEE, and Senior member of ACM. His research interests include embedded systems, high-performance computing, big data and IoT, connected health, image and vision systems, biometric and security.