Professor Tariq Durrani

Honorary Professor

Computing Science University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Tariq Durrani

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Honorary Professor After doctoral and postdoctoral research at Southampton, Tariq joined the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, as a Lecturer in 1976, and was appointed Professor of Signal Processing in 1982, the first on the subject in the UK. He was Head of the Department of EEE from 1986-90 and Deputy Principal from 2000-06. For the past 30 years, he has worked on and supervised some 60 projects sponsored by the EPSRC, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Defence, the US Navy, and by several industrial organisations. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students and is the author/co-author of over 340 papers and six books. His research interests are in the areas of Statistical Signal and Image Processing, Technology Management and Higher Education Management. Professor Durrani is a Director of: the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education; the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce; the Institute for System Level Integration; and Council Member of the Scottish Funding Council. He is Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has been the General Chair of several flagship international conferences, such as IEEE ICASSP'89 and IEEE ICC'07. He is Past President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and of the IEEE Engineering Management Society; past Chair of the IEEE Periodicals Council, member of the IEEE Publications Board, and Chair of the IEEE Education Board Awards and Recognition Committee, and Member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee. He was instrumental in establishing the prestigious IEEE Jack Kilby Medal in Signal Processing, and the IEEE /RSE Wolfson Maxwell Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the IEEE. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Honours List in December 2002 for services to electronics and higher education.Connection To Stirling Professor Durrani has been collaborating with Dr. Hussain at Stirling in the area of Signal Processing over a number of years. The work has led to numerous joint research papers, research proposals and projects, and international conference organisation (e.g. IEEE ICEIS'2007 in Islamabad). Another current flourishing collaboration is through the China Scotland Signal & Image Processing Research Academy (SIPRA), which was established by Professor Durrani in 2008 as a partnership between seven leading Chinese and four Scottish universities (with Dr Hussain and Prof Smith lead SIPRA members/ experts from Stirling). The SIPRA inaugural Workshop was held in Beijing in Oct 2009 (www.china-scotland-sipra.org/) and is expected to lead to follow-on Staff and PhD students (funded) exchange research programmes. The new opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Durrani (through his Honorary appointment at Stirling) will further enhance joint activity, including with other CS Staff members and students (with related research interests).

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Conference Paper (published)

A comparative study of Persian sentiment analysis based on different feature combinations

Dashtipour K, Gogate M, Adeel A, Hussain A, Alqarafi A & Durrani T (2019) A comparative study of Persian sentiment analysis based on different feature combinations. In: Liang Q, Mu J, Jia M, Wang W, Feng X & Zhang B (eds.) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 463. CSPS 2017: Communications, Signal Processing, and System, Harbin, China, 14.07.2017-16.07.2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 2288-2294. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6571-2_279

Conference Paper (published)

Towards Arabic multi-modal sentiment analysis

Alqarafi AS, Adeel A, Gogate M, Dashtipour K, Hussain A & Durrani T (2019) Towards Arabic multi-modal sentiment analysis. In: Liang Q, Mu J, Jia M, Wang W, Feng X & Zhang B (eds.) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 463. CSPS 2017: Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, 14.07.2017-16.07.2017. Harbin, China: Springer, pp. 2378-2386. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6571-2_290

Book Chapter

Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis

Cambria E, Hussain A, Durrani T & Zhang J (2012) Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis. In: Jiang H, Ding W W, Ali M & Wu X (eds.) Advanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012, Dalian, China, June 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7345. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 437-446. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31087-4_46#

Book Chapter

Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent

Hussain A, Cambria E, Mazzocco T, Grassi M, Wang Q & Durrani T (2012) Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C & Leung C (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7663. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 656-663. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_79#

Conference Paper (published)

Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis

Poria S, Gelbukh A, Cambria E, Yang P, Hussain A & Durrani T (2012) Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis. In: International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP. 2. 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Beijing, China, 21.10.2012-25.10.2012. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 1251-1255. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6491803&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491803

Book Chapter

Switching between different ways to think

Cambria E, Mazzocco T, Hussain A & Durrani T (2011) Switching between different ways to think. In: Esposito A, Vinciarelli A, Vicsi K, Pelachaud C & Nijholt A (eds.) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues: COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6800. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 56-69. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-25775-9_5#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_5

Conference Paper (published)

Sentic computing for patient centered applications

Cambria E, Hussain A, Durrani T, Havasi C, Eckl C & Munro J (2010) Sentic computing for patient centered applications. In: 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP. 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Beijing, China, 24.10.2010-28.10.2010. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 1279-1282. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5657072&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOSP.2010.5657072

Book Chapter

A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system

Hussain A, Cifani S, Squartini S, Piazza F & Durrani T (2007) A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system. In: Esposito A, Faundez-Zanuy M, Keller E & Marinaro M (eds.) Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours: COST Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4775. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 190-199. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-76442-7_17#; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76442-7_17

Book Chapter

Nonlinear adaptive speech enhancement inspired by early auditory processing

Hussain A, Durrani T, Alkulaibi A & Mtetwa N (2005) Nonlinear adaptive speech enhancement inspired by early auditory processing. In: Chollet G, Esposito A, Faundez-Zanuy M & Marinaro M (eds.) Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications: Advanced Lectures and Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3445. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 291-316. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11520153_13#

Book Chapter

Computationally Efficient Locally Recurrent Neural Networks For On-Line Signal Processing

Hussain A, Soraghan JJ, Durrani T & Campbell DR (1997) Computationally Efficient Locally Recurrent Neural Networks For On-Line Signal Processing. In: Morabito C (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Systems. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 41. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 87-91. http://www.iospress.nl/book/advances-in-intelligent-systems/

Book Chapter

A new Neural Network Structure for Modelling Non-linear Dynamical Systems

Hussain A, Soraghan JJ, Durrani T & Campbell DR (1996) A new Neural Network Structure for Modelling Non-linear Dynamical Systems. In: Mertzios B & Liatsis (eds.) Proceedings IWISP '96: 4-7 November 1996 Manchester, UK: Third International Workshop on Image and Signal Processing on the Theme of Advances in Computational Intelligence. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 119-122. http://store.elsevier.com/Proceedings-IWISP-96-4andndash7-November-1996-Manchester-UK/isbn-9780444825872/

Conference Paper (published)

A new artificial neural network based adaptive non-linear equalizer for overcoming co-channel interference

Hussain A, Soraghan JJ & Durrani T (1996) A new artificial neural network based adaptive non-linear equalizer for overcoming co-channel interference. In: 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity: Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96, Volume 2. 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity': Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96, London, UK, 18.11.1996-22.11.1996. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 1422-1426. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=587680&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst; https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1996.587680

Conference Paper (published)

Adaptive Functional-Link neural network based non-linear equalizers for overcoming co-channel interference

Hussain A, Soraghan JJ & Durrani T (1996) Adaptive Functional-Link neural network based non-linear equalizers for overcoming co-channel interference. In: Proceedings of IEEE/IEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Methods in Multi-path Environments. IEEE/IEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Methods in Multi-path Environments, Glasgow, UK, 20.04.1996-21.04.1996. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Conference Paper (published)

New non-linear decision feedback equalizers based on the functional-link neural network

Hussain A, Soraghan JJ & Durrani T (1994) New non-linear decision feedback equalizers based on the functional-link neural network. In: IEE Colloquium on Non-Linear Filters. IEE Colloquium, 125. IEE Colloquium on Non-Linear Filters, London, UK, 18.05.1994-18.05.1994. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 8/1-8/6. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=367922&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst