AHMED AL-ANI
Lecturer
Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group
Faculty of Engineering
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9514 2420
Fax: +61 2 9514 2655
Email: ahmed@eng.uts.edu.au
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AHMED AL-ANI
Lecturer Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group Faculty of Engineering University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9514 2420 Fax: +61 2 9514 2655 Email: ahmed@eng.uts.edu.au |
Qualifications:
· PhD in Electrical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
· MPhil in Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University
· BSc in Computer Engineering, University of Baghdad
Professional Experience:
· 2004 - present: Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney.
· 2003 - 2004: Research Associate, School of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia.
Research Interests:
· Pattern classification
· Biomedical signal processing
· Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Research Projects:
· EEG analysis using a machine learning approach.
· Population-based optimization for feature selection.
· Feature projection using a discriminant analysis approach.
· Text categorization.
· Pattern Classification using a penalized likelihood method.
· Edge fusion based on the concept of multiple detector behaviour.
· Building multiple classifier systems.
· Speech segmentation and extracting phonetic features from speech signals.
· A computer-based ECG monitoring and diagnostic system.
Research Students:
· Akram AlSukker (PhD candidate).
· Alaleh Rabie (MEng candidate).
· Rami N. Khushaba (PhD degree awarded).
Publications:
Journal Papers:
1. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani and A. Al-Jumaily. Orthogonal Fuzzy Neighbourhood Discriminant Analysis for Multifunction Myoelectric Hand Control. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (In press).
2. A. Atiya and A. Al-Ani. A penalized likelihood based pattern classification algorithm, Pattern Recognition. 42(11), pp 2684-2694, 2009.
3. A. Al-Ani. A dependency-based search strategy for feature selection, Experts Systems with Applications. 36, pp 12392–12398, 2009.
4. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Jumaily and A. Al-Ani. Evolutionary Fuzzy Discriminant Analysis Feature Projection Technique in Myoelectric Control, Pattern Recognition Letters. 30, pp 699-707, 2009.
5. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Jumaily, and A. Al-Ani. Dimensionality Reduction with Neuro-Fuzzy Discriminant Analysis. International Journal of Computational Intelligence, 5(3), pp 225-232, 2009.
6. R. Khushaba, A. AlSukker, A. Al-Ani and A. Al-Jumaily. A Novel Swarm-Based Feature Selection Algorithm in Multifunction Myoelectric Control. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. 20(4), pp 175-185, 2009.
7. A. Al-Ani. Feature Subset Selection Using Ant Colony Optimization. International Journal of Computational Intelligence. 2(1), pp 53-58, 2005.
8. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. Multi-channel subspace mapping using an information maximization criterion. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 15, pp 117-145, 2004.
9. A. Al-Ani, M. Deriche and J. Chebil. A new mutual information based measure for feature selection. Intelligent Data Analysis, 7(1), pp 43-57, 2003.
10. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. A new technique for combining classifiers using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17, pp 333-361, 2002.
11. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani and A. Al-Jumaily. Feature Selection Using Differential Evolution and a Statistical Repair Mechanisim. Experts Systems with Applications (submitted).
Book chapters & LNCS papers:
12. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, and A. Al-Jumaily, "Swarmed Discriminant Analysis for Multifunction Prosthesis Control", Applied Swarm Intelligence, A. Engelbrecht (Ed.), (Accepted subject to revision).
13. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, and A. Al-Jumaily, “Feature Subset Selection Using Differential Evolution”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, M. Koppen et al. (Eds.): ICONIP 2008, Part I, pp. 103-110, Springer 2009.
14. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, A. Al-Jumaily, and H. T. Nguyen, “A Hybrid Nonlinear-Discriminant Analysis Feature Projection Technique”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, AI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 5360, W. Wobcke and M. Zhang (Eds.): Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 544–550, 2008.
15. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, A. AlSukker, and A. Al-Jumaily, “A Combined Ant Colony and Differential Evolution Feature Selection Algorithm”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ANTS2008: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, LNCS 5217, M. Dorigo et al (Eds.): Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 1-12. 2008.
Conference Papers:
16. A. Al-Ani and A. Atiya, Pattern Classification using a Penalized Likelihood Method, Fourth IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition – Accepted.
17. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, and A. Al-Jumaily, “Swarm based Fuzzy Discriminant Analysis for Multifunction Prosthesis Control”, Fourth IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition – Accepted.
18. A. AlSukker, R. Khushaba and A. Al-Ani. “Optimizing the k-NN Metric Weights Using Differential Evolution”, The International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Information Technology (MCIT-2010) – Accepted.
19. A. AlSukker, A. Al-Ani, and A. Atiya. A Modified K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier to Deal with Unbalanced Classes. International Conference on Neural Computation (to appear).
20. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, and A. Al-Jumaily. Differential Evolution based Feature Subset Selection. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’2008).
21. R. N. Khushaba, A. Al-Ani, and A. Al-Jumaily, “Fuzzy Discriminant Analysis based Feature Projection in Myoelectric Control”, 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2008).
22. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Jumaily and A. Al-Ani. Enhanced Feature Selection Algorithm Using Ant Colony Optimization and Fuzzy Memberships. 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2008).
23. A. AlSukker, R. Khushaba and A. Al-Ani. Enhanced Feature Selection Algorithm Using Ant Colony Optimization and Fuzzy Memberships 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2008).
24. R.N. Khushaba, A. AlSukker, A. Al-Ani. Intelligent Artificial Ants based Feature Extraction from Wavelet Packet Coefficients for Biomedical Signal Classification. 3rd International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2008).
25. S. Darvishi and A. Al-Ani. Brain-Computer Interface Analysis using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Classifier. IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2007).
26. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Jumaily and A. Al-Ani. Swarm Intelligence based Dimensionality Reduction for Myoelectric Control. 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2007).
27. R. Khushaba, A. Al-Jumaily and A. Al-Ani. Novel Feature Extraction Method based on Fuzzy Entropy and Wavelet Packet Transform for Myoelectric Control. 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007).
28. A. Al-Ani and A. Al-Sukkar. Effect of feature and channel selection on EEG classification. IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2006) pp 2171- 2174, 2006.
29. A. Al-Sukkar and A. Al-Ani. Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods for Improved EEG Classification. The International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (ICBPE 2006) pp 146-151, 2006.
30. A. Al-Ani. Channel and Feature Classifier Fusion in EEG Analysis. 3rd Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06) Cairo, 2006.
31. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. Effect of Local Measure on Performance of the Ant Feature Selection Algorithm. International Conference on Computers, Communications and Signal Processing (CCSP’05), Kuala Lumpur, 2005.
32. A. Al-Ani. An Ant Colony Optimization Based Approach for Feature Selection. ICGST International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML-05), Cairo 2005.
33. A. Al-Ani. Ant Colony Optimization for Feature Subset Selection. The Second World Enformatika Congress (WEC’05), pp 35 – 38, 2005.
34. A. Al-Ani and M. Bennamoun. An Edge Fusion Approach Based on The Concept of Multiple Detector Behaviour. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2004), pp 2999 – 3003, 2004.
35. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. Feature selection using a mutual information based measure. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’2002), pp 82 – 85, 2002.
36. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. A new algorithm for multi-Channel EEG signal analysis using mutual information. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2002), pp 2961 – 2964, 2002.
37. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. A Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence approach for combining trained neural networks. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’2001), pp 703 – 706, Sydney 2001.
38. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. An optimal Feature Selection technique using the concept of mutual information. 6th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA’2001), pp 477 – 480, Kuala Lumpur 2001.
39. M. Deriche and A. Al-Ani. A new algorithm for EEG feature selection using mutual information. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2001), pp 1057 – 1060, Salt Lake City 2001.
40. A. Al-Ani, M. Deriche and B. Boashash. EEG feature selection using a mutual information technique. 3rd Australian Workshop on Signal Processing Applications (WoSPA’2000), Brisbane 2000.
41. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. Optimal feature selection using information maximisation: case of biomedical data. 2000 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP’2000), pp 841 – 50, Sydney 2000.
42. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. A hybrid information maximisation (HIM) algorithm for optimal feature selection from multi channel data. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2000), pp 3470 – 3473, Istanbul 2000.
43. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. Using the hybrid information maximisation (HIM) algorithm in speech processing. 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (ICAIA’2000), pp 281 – 287, Cairo 2000.
44. A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche. A novel approach to speech segmentation using the wavelet transform. 5th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA’99), pp 127 – 130, Brisbane 1999.
45. A. Al-Ani, J. Yunus, and K. Ahmad. Malay phoneme recognition system based on phonetic features detection. 4th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS’97), Cairo, 1997.
46. A. Al-Ani, J. Yunus, and K. Ahmad. Using phoneme recognition in the speech training of the handicapped. 4th International Conference BIOMED’97: Simulations in Biomedicine, Acquasparata 1997.
47. A. Al-Ani and J. Yunus. Computer-Based Speech Training Systems for Hearing and Speech Impaired Children. International Conference on Robotics, Vision, and Parallel Processing for Industrial Automation (ROVPIA’96), Ipoh 1996.
Last updated 12-Mar-2010