Assoc.Prof. Mufti Mahmud (Senior Member IEEE & ACM, MBCS, FHEA)

Department of Computer Science,

Computing and Informatics Research Centre,

Medical Technologies Innovation Facility,

Nottingham Trent University, UK

Brief biography:

Dr Mufti Mahmud is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Computing at the Department of Computer Science of Nottingham Trent University (NTU).  He is the Coordinator of the Computer Science and Informatics (B11) Unit of Assessment of Research Excellence Framework at NTU and the deputy group leader of the Interactive Systems Research Group (ISRG) and the Cognitive Computing & Brain Informatics (CCBI) research group. He is also an active member of the Computing and Informatics Research Centre (CIRC) and the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF). He is a member of the NTU Distance Learning Governance, Operation and Steering committee as well as the International Mobility Committee and serves as an independent end-point assessor for the Level 6 BSc (Hons) in Digital & Technology Solutions Professional Degree Apprenticeship, and an expert of the online master's degree in computer science. He leads the teaching of the Big Data and its Infrastructures (Postgraduate – on campus and online delivery) module. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and a professional member of the British Computer Society (BCS).

Dr Mahmud has been listed among the top 2% cited scientists worldwide in computer science (2020) (data source: from the PLoS biology paper, click here) and has been the winner of the 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Research Award for Early Career Researchers.  As per Scopus, Dr Mahmud holds the highest number of publications among the academics from universities in Nottinghamshire (the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University) in the computer science domain between 01/2018 and 03/2022. Also, by Scopus, he has been ranked as the third top during the same period among computer science academics from universities in the East Midlands region (i.e., De Montfort University, Loughborough University, Nottingham Trent University, University of Derby, University of Leicester, University of Lincoln, University of Northampton, and the University of Nottingham).

Dr Mahmud is a section editor (big data analytics) of the Cognitive Computation journal, regional editor (Europe) of the Brain Informatics journal and the associate editor (neuroprosthetics) of the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal. He is also heavily involved in organising conferences including the general chair of the 13th/14th/15th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI), the 2021/2022 International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII), the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics (TEHI2022), the symposium chair of the IEEE Symposium in Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-Health (IEEE CICARE) since 2016, the coordinator of the local organising committee chair of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) 2020. Dr Mahmud will serve as one of the general chairs along with Dr Maryam Doborjeh and Prof Micheal Witbrock of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2024), the annual conference of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS), during 9-13 December 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand.