报告主题：Towards Cognitive Big Data Informatics: Real world case studies and emerging research challenges/感知大数据分析：应用实例与新挑战
报告时间：2018年04月18日15:00pm-17:00pm
报告地点：延长校区电机楼202室
内容简介：Cognitive Big Data Informatics is a rapidly developing discipline, bringing together neurobiology, cognitive psychology, Big Data and artificial intelligence. Ongoing pioneering work at Stirling University is exploring the development of cognitively-inspired Big Data Informatics for engineering the intelligent systems of tomorrow. Two case studies are introduced in this talk. First, on-going research into cognitively-inspired multi-modal speech perception has led to the development of a novel context-aware, audio-visual speech processing system. The proposed framework exploits cognitively-inspired use of both audio and visual (including lip-tracking) information, with potential applications in next-generation multimodal hearing aids, listening devices and related assistive technology. The second case study focusses on open-domain sentiment analysis of natural language text using sentic computing: a novel multi-disciplinary paradigm, exploiting the semantic, latent and implicit meaning of natural language concepts. Ongoing extensions of this work include a cognitively-inspired emotion recognition system based on contextual multimodal input, including text, audio and facial information, leading to more natural human computer interaction in future social robotics and related applications. We present a brief summary of these exciting multi-disciplinary research areas, and outline some future research directions and challenges.
Biography:
Amir Hussain is full Professor of Computing Science, founding Director of the Cognitive Big Data Informatics (CogBiD) Research Laboratory, and Head of the Data Science Research Group at the University of Stirling in Scotland, UK.
He obtained his BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (with the highest 1st Class Honours, with distinction) and PhD (in novel neural network architectures and algorithms for real-world applications), both from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, in 1992 and 1997 respectively.
Professor Hussain’s research interests are cross-disciplinary and industry focused, aimed at pioneering brain-inspired, cognitive Big Data technology for solving complex real-world problems.
In 2017, he was ranked, in an independent survey published in (Elsevier’s) Information Processing and Management Journal, as one of the world’s top two most productive, highly cited researchers in the sentiment analytics field (since 2000).
He has (co)authored three international patents, more than 320 publications (with approximately 120 journal papers, over a dozen Books, including the world’s first research monographs in multi-disciplinary areas of: cognitively-inspired audio-visual speech filtering, sentic computing (sentiment analysis), and cognitive agent based computing). He has led major multi-disciplinary research projects (worth over $3million, including over $0.5m of currently held grants), as Principal Investigator, funded by national and European research councils, local and international charities and industry, and has supervised more than 30 PhDs to-date.
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of (Springer Nature’s) Cognitive Computation journal (ISI SCI Impact Factor (IF): 3.44) and BMC Big Data Analytics journal (published by BioMed Central (BMC) – part of Springer Nature). He also serves as Associate Editor of several other world-leading journals including, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (SCI IF 6.1) , Elsevier’s Information Fusion journal (SCI IF: 5.1), the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (SCI IF: 6.34). He is Vice-Chair of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and Chapter Chair of the IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter. He is a Senior Fellow of the Brain Sciences Foundation (USA).
