Khurshid Ahmad

Great literature is timeless and it takes us into a virtual space complete with route maps, footpaths, roads, rivers, mountains, and, of course people, places, animals, objects and events. So, the characters in the Irish literary classic, Ulysses, meet near Trinity College, take a tram, pop into a house/cafe, go to a river crossing, and … Read more

Speeches by charismatic and not so charismatic politicians can sometimes create unexpected and revolutionary changes in nation states. Charismatic politicians can convey sentiments by a subtle choice of words – the so called emotion laden words and ordinary words- can precipitate major socio-political changes. In political debates the politicians use words that may discredit their … Read more

This project will deal with recognition of facial emotion recognition using generative models and comapring the results of GenAI models with key industry standard machine learning models. You will be building a transformer for facial emotion recognition – broadly expressions of happiness, anger, surprise, contempt, and sadness– and for recognising head movements – upward/downward, sideways, … Read more

Big data is being collected almost everywhere: weather data, especially for airline transportation, can be collected every microsecond or even less as there reliable and cheap hardware technology to do so. You might have heard of algorithmic trading where computers trade against each other, of facilitate humans to do so, by generating data every microsecond … Read more

All future technologies will rely more than ever before on energy, telecommunications, and transportation networks. Smart meters provide greater control of energy usage by customers but at the same time makes the whole energy supply network vulnerable to attacks by false data injection via smart meters. Diversity of energy sources, wind, solar, waves, optical reflectors, … Read more

Prices of company shares, national currencies, and commodities change suddenly usually on the whim of people who buy and sell shares or currencies or commodities. This leads traders to buy when they should sell, and to sell when they should buy – the whim or the sentiment of single trader can create a boom or … Read more

Emotions are very subjective and scholars find it difficult to classify the range of emotions displayed by humans (and animals). Not only do we show emotions but equally well detect emotions of others. This production and detection of emotions happiness, sadness, joyousness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise, helps us to function intelligently in this world. … Read more