Muhammad Ahmed Raza

Assistant Professor

PhD in Informatics, the University of Edinburgh

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computer Vision • Machine & Deep Learning • Human Motion Analysis • Human Centric Modelling

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Raza obtained his PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he has worked with Sony (Japan), for developing and optimizing human-centric algorithms. He earned his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from PIEAS and Masters in Computer Vision from Air University, where he received a fellowship and a Silver Medal. He has published in top journals and conferences, including NeurIPS. He is passionate to work on advancing the country’s AI ecosystem, mentoring young engineers, and developing technologies that address local challenges while aligning with global innovation.

  • Raza, M. A., & Fisher, R. B. V2R: A Fully Autonomous Vision-Based System for Analyzing Eating Behaviors and Musculoskeletal Deterioration. (2024) [Submitted]
  • Raza, M. A., Lochhead, C., & Fisher, R. B. Effect of Face Obfuscation Methods on Pose-Based Action Recognition. Intl. Conf. on AI in Healthcare, 2024.
  • Raza, M. A., & Fisher, R. B. Vision-Based Approach to Assess Performance Levels While Eating. Machine Vision and Applications, 34(6), 124, 2023.
  • Raza, M. A., et al. EatSense: Human Centric, Action Recognition and Localization Dataset for Understanding Eating Behaviors and Quality of Motion Assessment. Image and Vision Computing, 137, 104762, 2023.
  • Li, N., Raza, M. A., Hu, W., Sun, Z., & Fisher, R. B. Object-Centric Representation Learning with Generative Spatial-Temporal Factorization. NeurIPS 2021.

  • HEC Scholarship (PhD)– Competitive nationwide award with full waiver & stipend.
  • Air University Fellowship (MS)– Competitive nationwide award with full waiver & stipend.
  • Silver Medal– 2nd Position in MS (Computer Vision), Air University.

  • Former PhD Scholar, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Former Computer Vision Research Intern, Sony Japan
  • Founding member and former Computer Vision Engineer, Danu Robotics, UK
  • Former Research Associate, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila
  • Former Research Assistant & Lab Instructor, Air University, Pakistan