Ghulam Muhammad

Bio

Ghulam Muhammad is a full professor in the department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prof. Ghulam received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Toyohashi University and Technology, Japan in 2006, M.S. degree from the same university in 2003. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1997. He was a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion and Science (JSPS) fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. His research interests include image and speech processing, cloud and multimedia for healthcare, and machine learning. Prof. Ghulam has authored and co-authored more than 300 publications including IEEE / ACM / Springer / Elsevier journals, and flagship conference papers. He has three U.S. patents. He received the best faculty award of Computer Engineering department at KSU during 2014-2015. He supervised more than 15 Ph.D. and Master Theses. Prof. Ghulam is involved in many research projects as a principal investigator (approximate amount of half a million US dollars) and a co-principal investigator (approximate amount of 1.5 million US dollars).
He is a Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) 2023 by Clarivate.

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Education:
Ph.D. March 2006
Electronics and Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.
Thesis Title: A study on auditory based feature extraction and HMM/SM based classification for robust automatic speech recognition

M.S. March 2003
Knowledge-based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.
Thesis Title: Normalization of Acoustic Quality of the Monophones in an Utterance.

B.S. July 1997
Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

Academic Experience:
Professor
January 2017 – present
Department of Computer Engineering,
College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS),
King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Associate Professor
September 2011 – January 2017
Department of Computer Engineering,
College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS),
King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Assistant Professor
August 2007 – August 2011
Department of Computer Engineering,
College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS),
King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
April 2007 - August 2007 (shortened)
Ministry of Education, Japan & Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.

Toshiba Research Fellow
April 2006 - March 2007
Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. Collaboration with Toshiba Corporation, Japan.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: Signals and Systems (CEN340; CEN351); Digital Signal Processing (CEN352); Introduction to Digital Control (CEN455); Digital Speech Processing (CEN460), Digital Image Processing (CEN465).

Graduate and post-graduate (Ph.D.): Digital signal processing (CEN543); Digital image processing (CEN545); Digital Speech processing (CEN547); Speech and video signal processing (CEN643); Advanced digital signal processing (CEN645).

Thesis Supervision:

Ph.D. Supervision (total of 13 students)

2022 –

Ischemic stroke image segmentation using few-shot learning, Fatimah Shinan Alshehri
Attention-based deep learning techniques for decoding motor imagery EEG brain signals, Hamdi Taher Altaheri (Defended)
Advanced Deep Segmentation Architectures for the Analysis of Medical Imagery, Hamdan Sulaiman Al Jowair, co-supervising
Abnormal Event Detection for Video Surveillance Using Transformer Model, Abdulrahman Alshalawi, co-supervising

2021 – 2022

A multi-branch convolutional neural network model for electroencephalogram-based motor imagery classification, Ghadir Ali Altuwaijri (Defended)

2020 – 2022

Sensor based Human Activity Recognition with Spatio Temporal Deep Learning, Ohoud Nafea Bakeat Almohammadi, co-supervising (Defended)

2019-

Human Fall Detection Using Multistream Convolutional Neural Networks with Fusion, Thamer Alanazi

2017-2019

Hand gesture recognition for sign language using deep learning techniques, Muneer Hamid A. Al-Hammadi (Defended)
Deep Learning EEG Features for Motor Imagery Task Classification, Syed Umar Amin, co-supervision (Defended)
A Novel Tree-Based Deep Convolutional Model, Abduljawad A. Amory, co-supervision (Defended)

2015-2017

Investigation of Frequency Regions for Voice Pathology Detection and Classification, Ahmed Al-nasheri (Defended)
Automatic Voice Pathology Assessment System for Vocal Fold Disorders, Zulfiqar Ali, co-supervision, University Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. (Defended)

2009-2013

A multi-directional feature extraction technique for speaker recognition, Awais Mahmood (co-supervision) (Defended)

Master Thesis / Project Supervision (total of 15 students)

2020-2021

(Thesis) Tuberculosis Detection in Chest Radiograph by Using Convolutional Neural Networks Architecture, Saad Ibrahim Nafisah

2018-2019

(Thesis) A vision system for date harvesting robot, Hamdi Altaheri, co-supervision

2013-2015

(Thesis) Image forgery detection based on texture descriptors, Aisha Al-Bogami
(Project) Image forgery detection using MSB and local texture descriptors, Mai Sulaiman Hamad Altulyan
(Thesis) Detection and/or Classification of Voice Pathology Using Feature Selection, Malak Mohammad AlMojaly
(Thesis) Automatic voice pathology detection based on vocal tract area measurement, Ghadir Ali AlTuwaijri
(Thesis) Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection of Non-native Arabic Speech, Afnan Waheed AlHindi (co-supervision)

2012-2013

(Thesis) Copy Move Image Forgery Detection Based on Multi-resolution Techniques, Muneer Hamid Ahmed Al-Hammadi
(Project) Category Specific Face Recognition Using Bandlets, Faten Abdullah Alomar
(Thesis) Voice Pathology Detection Based on MPEG-7 Features, Moutasem Melhim
(Thesis) Automatic Detection of Copy-Move Image Forgery Based on Clustering Technique, Motasem S. Al-Sawadi
(Project) Face Recognition Using Ridgelet Coefficients, Mutib Hamdan AL-Enazi

2011-2012

(Project) Applying Feature Selection on Local Binary Patterns/WLD for Ethnicity classification for Category-specific Face Recognition, Fatimah Alanizi

2009-2010

(Thesis) Feature selection based verification system using palm and fingerprint, Muhanad M. Jazzar
(Project) Extract context from environment sound, Mobarak Obaid Alqahtani

Academic Committee Involvement:

Department ABET/NCAAA committee member (2010 – present).
Department course curriculum committee member (2011 – 2012)
College NCAAA committee member (2012 – 2013)
Executive committee member, Research Center, CCIS, KSU (2017 – present)
Editorial board member, KSU-CIS Journal (2017 – present), Q1

Research Interest:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Speech Signal Processing
Digital Image Processing
Biometrics
Smart Healthcare and IoTs
Multimedia Forensics.

Patent

“Environment recognition of audio input”, US Application No.: 13/183,424, Filed: July 14, 2011; US Patent No.: 8,812,310 B2, Issue date: August 19, 2014; Inventors: Ghulam Muhammad and Khaled S. Alghathbar.
“Tree harvesting tool”, US Patent No.: 10,485,171 B1, Issue Date: November 26, 2019: Inventors: Mohamed Amin Mekhtiche, et al.
“Robotic systems for harvesting and maintain date palms,” US Patent No.: 11,910,751 B1, Issue Date: February 27, 2024; Inventors: Mohamed Amin Mekhtiche, et al.

Speech Corpus
Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Bencherif Mohamed Abdelkader, Awais Mahmood, Zulfiqar Ali, King Saud University Arabic Speech Database LDC2014S02. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2014. ISBN 1-58563-669-X; https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014S02

Date Fruits Database
H. Altaheri, M. Alsulaiman, M. Faisal, and G. Muhammad, “Date Fruit Dataset for Automated Harvesting and Visual Yield Estimation,” IEEE DataPort, v1, 2019. DOI: 10.21227/x46j-sk98.

Scholarships and Awards:

Best teaching faculty award for the Computer Engineering department (2014-2015).
Top quality (top 2% according to Clarivate) research paper award (2018), I received three awards out of a total of eight awards throughout KSU.
JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MONBUKAGAKUSHO), Japan for my outstanding research (acceptance rate: 14%) from April 2007.
Scholarship awarded by MONBUKAGAKUSHO throughout MS and PhD courses, October 2000-March 2006.

Research Projects and Grants:

18. Title: Deep Learning based EEG Brain Control for Hand Rehabilitation of
Stroke Patients
Organization: KSA International Collaboration Grant, Research and Development
Office at the Ministry of Education, KSA
Duration: 2020-2022 (3 years)
Responsibility: Principal Investigator.
Amount: 1.6144 Million Saudi Riyals.

17. Title: A Framework for Arabic Media Mining and Information Extraction
Using Continuous Domain Semantic Representation
Organization: KSA International Collaboration Grant, Research and Development
Office at the Ministry of Education, KSA
Duration: 2020-2022 (3 years)
Responsibility: Co-Principal Investigator.
Amount: 1.8 Million Saudi Riyals.

16. Title:   High Quality and Impact Research Initiative
Organization:   Research and Development Office at the Ministry of Education
       Duration:               2019-2020
       Responsibility:       Principal Investigator.
Amount:                 90,420 Saudi Riyals per contract.

15. Title: Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System for Non-native Learners of the Arabic Language

Organization: Grant Programs for Universities and Research Centers. (Project

Number: 3-17-09-001-0003).

Duration: 2018-2020 (two years).

Responsibility: Co Investigator.

Amount: 750,000 Saudi Riyals.

14.    Title:                    Multimodal Healthcare System Research Group.
       Organization:        KSU Deanship of Scientific Research. (RGP-1436-023)
       Duration:               2015-2019 (two years + two years).
       Responsibility:       Principal Investigator.
Amount:                 150,000 Saudi Riyals per year.

13. Title: Automatic date fruit inspection system using local texture descriptor in different color spaces
       Organization:        Research Center, CCIS, KSU. (Project Number: RC140218).
       Duration: 2014-2015 (one year).
       Responsibility: Principal Investigator.
Amount: 30,000 Saudi Riyals.

12. Title: The design and analysis of 3D educational content for learning and memorization processes
       Organization:        KACST-KSU National Strategic Research Project Grant. (Project Number: 12-INF2582-02).
       Duration: 2014-2016 (two years).
      Responsibility: Co Investigator.
Amount: 1,825,000 Saudi Riyals.

11. Title:                      Automatic Voice Pathology Assessment
       Organization:        KACST-KSU National Strategic Research Project Grant. (Project Number: 12-MED2474-02).
       Duration:               2013-2015 (two years).
       Responsibility:       Co Investigator.
Amount:                 1,999,830 Saudi Riyals.

10. Title:                      Non-intrusive Image Forgery Detection using Multiresolution Framework.
       Organization: KACST-KSU National Strategic Research Project Grant. (Project Number: 10-INF1140-02).
       Duration:               2012-2013 (two years).
       Responsibility:       Principal Investigator.
Amount:               1,528,000 Saudi Riyals.

9.    Title: Haptics-based Health Monitoring and Learning Research Group.
       Organization:        KSU Deanship of Scientific Research. (RGP-VPP-228)
       Duration:               2013-2015 (two years).
       Responsibility:       Co Investigator.
Amount:                 150,000 Saudi Riyals per year.

8.    Title: Arabic Speaker Recognition.
       Organization:        KACST-KSU National Strategic Research Project Grant. (Project Number: 08-INF167-02)
       Duration:               2011-2013 (two years).
       Responsibility:       Co Investigator.
Amount:                 1,098,000 Saudi Riyals.

7.    Title:                      Category specific face recognition.
       Organization: KACST-KSU National Strategic Research Project Grant. (Project Number: 10-INF1044-02)
       Duration:               2011-2013 (two years).
       Responsibility:       Co Investigator.
Amount:                 1,295,000 Saudi Riyals.

6.    Title: Automatic voice pathology detection based on MPEG-7 audio descriptors and support vector machine.
       Organization:        Research Center, CCIS, KSU. (Project Number: RC120910)
       Duration:               2012-2013 (one year).
       Responsibility:       Principal Investigator.
Amount: 30,000 Saudi Riyals.

5.    Title: Automatic voice pathology detection based on vocal tract area function.
       Organization:        Research Center, CCIS, KSU. (Project Number: RC121230)
       Duration:               2013-2014 (one year).
       Responsibility: Principal Investigator.
Amount: 30,000 Saudi Riyals.

4.    Title: Environment detection for digital audio forensics.
       Organization:        Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, KSU.
       Duration:               2009, six months.
       Responsibility:       Principal Investigator.
Amount: 60,000 Saudi Riyals.

3.    Title:                     Pitch detection in noisy environments.
       Organization: Research Center, CCIS, KSU. (Project Number: RC13/428-429)
       Duration:              2008-2009 (one year).
       Responsibility:      Principal Investigator.
Amount: 30,000 Saudi Riyals.

2.    Title: Study on cannonicalization for robust speech recognition.
Organization:        Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. (ID No. P 07080)
       Duration:               2007-2009. (Shortened and completed)
       Responsibility:       JSPS Fellow.

1.    Title:                     Feature extraction for noise-robust automatic speech recognition.
       Organization: Toshiba Corporation, Japan.
       Duration: 2006-2007.
       Responsibility: Principal Researcher.

Student’s Awards Under My Supervision:

Ahmed Alnasheri, First Prize, The 7th meeting of KSU graduate research, 2016; Title: Investigation of Frequency Regions for Voice Pathology Detection and Classification. Advisors: Ghulam Muhammad and Mansour Alsulaiman
Muneer Al-Hammadi, First Prize, The 10th meeting of KSU graduate research, 2019; Title: Hand Gesture Recognition using Deep Learning Techniques. Advisors: Ghulam Muhammad and Abdulwadood Abdulwaheed.
Yazeed Khalid Musallam, Nasser Ibrahim AlFassam, and Khalid Saleh Alshehri, First Prize, AEC-KSU Best Graduation Project, 2021. Title: Design of an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based motor imagery classification system. Supervisor: Ghulam Muhammad
Hamdi Altaheri, First place award for the best scientific paper in the King Saud University Scientific Forum for Research, Innovation and Talent, 2022. Title: Attention-based deep learning techniques for decoding motor imagery EEG brain signals. Advisor: Ghulam Muhammad
Abdullah Khalid Albrethen, Khalid Bader Alharbi, and Mohammed Abdullah Alswayed, Title: Design a hand rehabilitation system using a hand exoskeleton, Third Prize, AEC-KSU Best Graduation Project, 2022. Supervisor: Ghulam Muhammad

Professional Membership:

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). (4110)
Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ), (not active).
IEEE, Senior Member. (M'10, SM'19; 91229298)
Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), Fellow. (F-13241)
ACM, Member. (5060427)

Professional Activities:

Guest Editor (lead), IEEE IoTJ, SI: Challenges and Opportunities of IoT-based Healthcare Industry 5.0, 2024-2025.
Guest Editor (lead), Information Fusion, SI: Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Data Fusion, 2023.
Guest Editor (lead), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, SI: Insights of Machine Learning into Medical Decision Making Systems: From Research to Practice, 2022.
Guest Editor, IEEE Systems Journal, SI: Advanced Learning-based Support for Large-scale Multi-agent Systems, 2023-2024.
Guest Editor (lead), Sustainable Cities and Society SI: Internet of Health Things (IoHT)-based Connected Living for Sustainable Smart Cities, 2021.
Guest Editor, Multimedia Systems SI: Deep Learning for Multimedia Healthcare, 2020.
Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), SI: AI-empowered Multimedia Data Analytics for Smart Healthcare, 2020.
Guest Editor (lead), Special Issue on Computational Intelligence on Meta Learning for Smart Healthcare, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2021-2022.
Area Editor, Information Fusion (Top 2% journal), 2023 -
Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoTJ) (Top 5% journal), 2023 -
Associate Editor, IEEE Access, Q2
Editorial Board, KSU CIS Journal (Q1), 2016 – present.
Associate Editor, Expert Systems (Wiley; Q2), 2023 – present.
Associate Editor, International Arab Journal on Information Technology, 2011 – present
IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), The Advances of The Internet of Things and Cloud for Smart Connected Living (Aiotcscl), 9-13 December 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA
The International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for Smart-health (MUST-SH 2020), London, UK, 2020.
The International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for Smart-health (MUST-SH 2019), Hawaii, USA, 2019.
The International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for Smart-health (MUST-SH 2018), San Diego, USA, 2018.
The 7th International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, Hong Kong, 2017.
Program committee member, KACSTIT2016, the 4th Saudi International Conference on Information Technology, November, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Advisory committee member, 1st International Conference on Advanced Information and Communication Technology 2016 (ICAICT 2016)
The 6th International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, Seattle, USA, 2016.
EUROCON 2015, Salamanca, Spain, 2015.
The 5th International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, Torino, Italy, 2015.
The second International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT14), Dubai, UAE, 2014.
10th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, USA, 2014.
2013 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics (ISCI 2013), Malaysia, 2013.
The 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, San Jose, USA, 2013.
9th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Crete, Greece, 2013.
The 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, Melbourne, 2012.
2012 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics (ISCI 2012), Malaysia, 2012.
The First International Conference on Robot, Vision, and Signal Processing, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2011
The 1st International IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-Health (MUST-EH), in conjunction with IEEE ICME, Barcelona, 2011
2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics (ISCI 2011), Malaysia, 2011.
2011 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2011), Malaysia, 2011.
2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA 2011), Malaysia, 2011.
2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2011), Malaysia, 2011.
2010 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2010), Malaysia, 2010.

Reviewer (journal)

International Arab Journal on Information Technology
Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Elsevier
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier
Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier
Information Fusion, Elsevier
Information Sciences, Elsevier
Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
International Journal on Speech Technology, Springer
IET Image Processing
IET Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
Computer and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier