Invited Speaker


Prof. Ayyaz Hussain

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Talk Title:

Deep Learning – Past, Present and Future

Abstract

Deep learning is widely used in numerous applications ranging from speech recognition, natural language understanding and computer vision etc. No single algorithm paradigm has even been so broadly and successfully used as deep nets. Invited talk will focus on history of deep learning, its applications and research trends.


Biography

Ayyaz Hussain is currently working as Professor of Computer Science at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. From 2010 to 2020 he was Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at International Islamic University Islamabad. He worked as Research Professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology South Korea from 2013-2014. During 2000 to 2010 he served as Software Engineer at National Engineering and Scientific Commission.


Dr. Hussain received his PhD from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST) in 2009. His research interests include Image processing, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning. He has published more than 40 journal articles along with number of conference papers. He has supervised more than 10 PhD and 25 MS students.