Sunder Ali Khowaja

Dr.

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I bring a rich blend of academic and industrial experience to the computer vision, deep learning, and privacy preservation domain. I am a senior member of IEEE along with an Associate Investigator at CONNECT Centre and Academic Collaborator at ADAPT Centre, Ireland. My educational journey began with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Information Systems Engineering from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Yongin, Republic of Korea, where I focused on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Computing Methods using Machine Learning, Wearable Sensors, and Imaging techniques under the guidance of Prof. Seok-Lyong Lee. I further honed my skills with a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Tech University of Korea under the guidance of Prof. Ik Hyun Lee. My current research interests include, Privacy Preservation Machine Learning, Model Inversion Attacks, Responsible Generative AI, and Sustainable AI. 

I am currently associated with Dublin City University as an Assistant Professor. I have previously served as a Faculty member at Technological University Dublin (2023 - 2024), as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer (from 2011 - 2023) at University of Sindh, Pakistan. I have the experience of working with multinational companies as a Network and RF Engineer from 2008 to 2011. I have published more than 70 research articles in national, international journals, and conference proceedings. I am the runner-up recipient for UG2+ Competition (Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation) at CVPR2022 and second runner-up for UG2+ Competition (Target Coded Restoration Challenge) at CVPR 2023. Furthermore, I have achieved Top ten positions in several of the CVPR challenges from 2022 to 2024. I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for PLoS ONE and Consumer Electronics Letters. In addition, I am serving(ed) as a Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networks, IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, and Sustainable Energy Technology and Assessments. I have also served as a TPC member for main tracks and workshops in A* Conferences, such as ECAI, Globecom, Mobicom, and ICDCS. I am a Regular Reviewer of notable journals, including IEEE Transactions, IEEE Journals, Elsevier Journals, and Springer Journals.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2025 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Usman Ali; KAPAL DEV; Ik Hyun Lee (2025) 'Image Registration and Deep NeuroFuzzy Networks for Mitigating Atmospheric Turbulence Effects in Consumer-Based Optical Imaging'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, . [Link] [DOI]
2025 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Syed Muhammad Anwar; Marius George Linguraru (2025) 'SelfFed: Self-supervised federated learning for data heterogeneity and label scarcity in medical images'. Expert Systems with Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2025 Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Nkenyereye, Lewis; Khuwaja, Parus; Al Hamadi, Hussam; Dev, Kapal (2025) 'Depression Detection From Social Media Posts Using Emotion Aware Encoders and Fuzzy Based Contrastive Networks'. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 33 (1):43-53. [DOI]
2025 Ghayvat, H.; Awais, M.; Geddam, R.; Quasim, M.T.; Khowaja, S.A.; Dev, K. (2025) 'AiCareGaitRehabilitation: Multi-modalities sensor data fusion for AI-IoT enabled realtime electrical stimulation device for pre-Fog and post-Fog to person with Parkinson's Disease'. Information Fusion, 122 . [Link] [DOI]
2025 Ghulam Mujtaba; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev (2025) 'EdgeAIGuard: Agentic LLMs for Minor Protection in Digital Spaces'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2025 Jha, Braj Kishore; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Pandey, Ankur (2025) 'Safeguarding Medical AI: Insights and Addressing Adversarial Threats in Consumer Electronics'. IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE, 14 (3):74-79. [DOI]
2025 Sanaullah Mehran; Parus Khuwaja; KAPAL DEV; Keshav Singh; Xingwang Li; Nikolaos Bartzoudis; Ciprian R. Comsa (2025) 'Block Encryption LAyer (BELA): Zero-Trust Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks for Federated Learning in 5G/6G Systems'. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Dev, Kapal; Chih-Lin, Chih-Lin; Marojevic, Vuk; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Lien, Shao-Yu; Wang, Yue (2024) 'Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Open Radio Access Networks: Architecture, Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases in Vehicular Networks'. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73 (7):9221-9225. [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Lewis Nkenyereye; Parus Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Dusit Niyato (2024) 'SLIP: Self-Supervised Learning Based Model Inversion and Poisoning Detection-Based Zero-Trust Systems for Vehicular Networks'. IEEE Wireless Communications, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Kapal Dev; Chih-Lin I; Raouf Boutaba; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Shao-Yu Lien; Yue Wang (2024) 'Guest Editorial Special Issue on Green Open Radio Access Networks: Architecture, Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases'. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Weizheng Wang; Lewis Nkenyereye (2024) 'ChatGPT Needs SPADE (Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics) Evaluation: A Review'. Cognitive Computation, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Shah Zeb; Aamir Mahmood; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Syed Ali Hassan; Mikael Gidlund; Paolo Bellavista (2024) 'Towards defining industry 5.0 vision with intelligent and softwarized wireless network architectures and services: A survey'. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kamran Dahri; Muhammad Aslam Jarwar; Ik Hyun Lee (2024) 'Spike learning based Privacy Preservation of Internet of Medical Things in Metaverse'. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Rui Liu; Kefeng Guo; Xingwang Li; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Theodoros A. Tsiftsis; Houbing Song (2024) 'RIS-Empowered Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks With PD-NOMA'. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Lewis Nkenyereye; Ghulam Mujtaba; Ik Hyun Lee; Giancarlo Fortino; Kapal Dev (2024) 'FISTNet: FusIon of STyle-path generative Networks for facial style transfer'. Information Fusion, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 JISEOK YOON; Jeongheon Song; Tanveer Hussain; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Khan Muhammad; Ik Hyun Lee (2024) 'Hybrid Conv-Attention Networks for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery-Based Target Recognition'. Ieee Access, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Dequan Xu; Changgen Peng; Weizheng Wang; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Youliang Tian (2024) 'Multikeyword-Ranked Search Scheme Supporting Extreme Environments for Internet of Vehicles'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Fayaz Ali Dharejo; Saleem Raza; Ik Hyun Lee; Rizwan Ali Naqvi; KAPAL DEV (2024) 'ReFuSeAct: Representation fusion using self-supervised learning for activity recognition in next generation networks'. Information Fusion, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Sultan Almakdi; Muhammad Ali Memon; Parus Khuwaja; Adel Sulaiman; Ali Alqahtani; Asadullah Shaikh; Abdullah Alghamdi (2024) 'Extending user control for image stylization using hierarchical style transfer networks'. Heliyon, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Ghulam Mujtaba; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Muhammad Aslam Jarwar; Jaehyuk Choi; Eun-Seok Ryu (2024) 'FRC-GIF: Frame Ranking-Based Personalized Artistic Media Generation Method for Resource Constrained Devices'. Ieee Transactions On Big Data, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Muhammad Zawish; Fayaz Ali Dharejo; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Saleem Raza; Steven Davy; KAPAL DEV; Paolo Bellavista (2024) 'AI and 6G Into the Metaverse: Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Research Trends'. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2024 Liu, Rui; Guo, Kefeng; Li, Xingwang; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Tsiftsis, Theodoros A.; Song, Houbing (2024) 'RIS-Empowered Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks With PD-NOMA'. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 26 (4):2258-2289. [DOI]
2023 KAPAL DEV; Chih-Lin I; Sunder Ali Khowaja (2023) 'Guest Editorial DENSE - Data Integrity, Integration and Security Issues for Consumer Data in Industry 5.0'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Bakkiam David Deebak; Fida Hussain Memon; Kapal Dev; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Weizheng Wang; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2023) 'TAB-SAPP: A Trust-Aware Blockchain-Based Seamless Authentication for Massive IoT-Enabled Industrial Applications'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Mengyao Peng; Jia Hu; hui lin; Given Names Deactivated Family Name Deactivated; Peng Liu; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2023) 'Spatiotemporal Prediction Based Intelligent Task Allocation for Secure Spatial Crowdsourcing in Industrial IoT'. Ieee Transactions On Network Science And Engineering, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Bakkiam David Deebak; Fida Hussain Memon; Sunder Ali Khowaja; KAPAL DEV; Weizheng Wang; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi; Chunhua Su (2023) 'A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Remote Mutual Authentication for AI-Empowered IoT Sustainable Computing Systems'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; KAPAL DEV; Muhammad Aslam Jarwar (2023) 'PROMPT: Process Mining and Paravector Tensor-Based Physical Health Monitoring Framework'. IEEE Sensors Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Ik Hyun Lee; KAPAL DEV; Muhammad Aslam Jarwar; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2023) 'Get Your Foes Fooled: Proximal Gradient Split Learning for Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks on IoMT Data'. Ieee Transactions On Network Science And Engineering, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Gunasekaran Raja; Gayathri Saravanan; Sahaya Beni Prathiba; Zahid Akhtar; Sunder Ali Khowaja; KAPAL DEV (2023) 'Smart Navigation and Energy Management Framework for Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Complex Environments'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; KAPAL DEV; Ik Hyun Lee; Wali Ullah Khan; Weizheng Wang; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi; Maurizio Magarini (2023) 'A Secure Data Sharing Scheme in Community Segmented Vehicular Social Networks for 6G'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Fayaz Ali Dharejo; Muhammad Zawish; Farah Deeba; Yuanchun Zhou; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2023) 'Multimodal-Boost: Multimodal Medical Image Super-Resolution Using Multi-Attention Network With Wavelet Transform'. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 (2022) 'AI-enabled privacy-preservation phrase with multi-keyword ranked searching for sustainable edge-cloud networks in the era of industrial IoT'. Ad Hoc Networks, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi; Parus Khuwaja; Luca Foschini (2022) 'Toward Industrial Private AI: A Two-Tier Framework for Data and Model Security'. IEEE Wireless Communications, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Qunshu Wang; Xingwang Li; Surbhi Bhatia Khan; Yuanwei Liu; LINSS T ALEX; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Varun G Menon (2022) 'UAV-Enabled Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks for Ground-Air-Ground Communications'. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Bakkiam David Deebak; Fida Hussain Memon; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Weizheng Wang; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2022) 'In the Digital Age of 5G Networks: Seamless Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Cognitive-Inspired Internet of Medical Things'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Seok-Lyong Lee (2022) 'Skeleton-based human action recognition with sequential convolutional-LSTM networks and fusion strategies'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Parus Khuwaja; Quoc-Viet Pham; Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi; Paolo Bellavista; Maurizio Magarini (2022) 'IIFNet: A Fusion-Based Intelligent Service for Noisy Preamble Detection in 6G'. IEEE Network, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 B D Deebak; Fida Hussain Memon; Xiaochun Cheng; Kapal Dev; Jia Hu; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi; Kyung Huyn Choi (2022) 'Seamless privacy-preservation and authentication framework for IoT-enabled smart eHealth systems'. Sustainable Cities and Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 (2022) 'Towards soft real-time fault diagnosis for edge devices in industrial IoT using deep domain adaptation training strategy'. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Fayaz Ali Dharejo; Muhammad Zawish; Yuanchun Zhou; Steven Davy; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Yanjie Fu; Dr.Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi (2022) 'FuzzyAct: A Fuzzy-Based Framework for Temporal Activity Recognition in IoT Applications Using RNN and 3D-DWT'. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kapal Dev; Parus Khowaja; Paolo Bellavista (2021) 'Toward Energy-Efficient Distributed Federated Learning for 6G Networks'. IEEE Wireless Communications, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Ganesh Kumar, PhD.; Shuib Basri; Abdullahi Abubakar Imam; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Luiz Fernando Capretz; Abdullateef Balogun (2021) 'Data Harmonization for Heterogeneous Datasets: A Systematic Literature Review'. Applied Sciences-Basel, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Cascaded and Recursive ConvNets (CRCNN): An effective and flexible approach for image denoising'. Signal Processing: Image Communication, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'NEAT: A Resilient Deep Representational Learning for Fault Detection using Acoustic Signals in IIoT Environment'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Optimal Radius for Enhanced Lifetime in IoT Using Hybridization of Rider and Grey Wolf Optimization'. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'VIRFIM: an AI and Internet of Medical Things-driven framework for healthcare using smart sensors'. Neural Computing and Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'DDI: A Novel Architecture for Joint Active user Detection and IoT Device Identification in Grant-Free NOMA Systems for 6G and Beyond Networks'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Triage of potential COVID-19 patients from chest X-ray images using hierarchical convolutional networks'. Neural Computing and Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Flexible Data Integrity Checking With Original Data Recovery in IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems'. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Q-learning and LSTM based deep active learning strategy for malware defense in industrial IoT applications'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Sparse Bayesian learning based channel estimation in FBMC/OQAM industrial IoT networks'. Computer Communications, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Adversarial Learning Networks for FinTech applications using Heterogeneous Data Sources'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'Toward soft real-time stress detection using wrist-worn devices for human workspaces'. Soft Computing, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Feri Setiawan; Aria Ghora Prabono; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Wangsoo Kim; Kyoungsoo Park; Bernardo Nugroho Yahya; Seok Lyong Lee; Jin Pyo Hong (2020) 'Fine-grained emotion recognition: fusion of physiological signals and facial expressions on spontaneous emotion corpus'. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'Prediction of stock movement using phase space reconstruction and extreme learning machines'. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'Automated Flower Classification using Transfer Learning and Meta-Learners in Deep Learning Framework'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2020 (2020) 'CAPHAR: context-aware personalized human activity recognition using associative learning in smart environments'. HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'Semantic Image Networks for Human Action Recognition'. International Journal of Computer Vision, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'Hybrid and hierarchical fusion networks: a deep cross-modal learning architecture for action recognition'. Neural Computing and Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'A framework for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images using hybrid feature set and hierarchical classification'. Signal, Image and Video Processing, . [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) 'Contextual activity based Healthcare Internet of Things, Services, and People (HIoTSP): An architectural framework for healthcare monitoring using wearable sensors'. Computer Networks, . [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) 'Automated Extraction of Retinal Blood Vessels for Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Enhancement Filters and Adaboost'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2018 (2018) 'The effect of exchange rate volatility on the transitional behavior of brokers: A perspective from Knowledge-driven Agent-based modeling with Software Simulation'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2017 Khowaja, S.A.; Yahya, B.N.; Lee, S.-L. (2017) 'Hierarchical classification method based on selective learning of slacked hierarchy for activity recognition systems'. Expert Systems with Applications, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 S. A. Khowaja; M. A. Unar; I. A. Ismaili; P. Khuwaja (2016) 'Supervised method for blood vessel segmentation from coronary angiogram images using 7-D feature vector'. Imaging Science Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Setiawan, Feri; Prabono, Aria Ghora; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2016) 'AN EFFECTIVE THRESHOLD BASED MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE FOR FALL DETECTION USING SMART DEVICES'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING-THEORY APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICE, 23 (5):332-348.
2016 (2016) 'Classification of Broken Rice Kernels using 12D Features'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link]
2016 Khowaja, S.A.; Setiawan, F.; Prabono, A.G.; Yahya, B.N.; Lee, S.-L. (2016) 'An effective threshold based measurement technique for fall detection using smart devices'. International Journal of Industrial Engineering : Theory Applications and Practice, . [Link]
2015 (2015) 'IMAGE DENOISING USING ADAPTIVE WIENER FILTERS WITH RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION AND ITS COMPARISON WITH WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED METHODS'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2015 (2015) 'DC COEFFICIENTS COMPARISON BASED APPROACH FOR FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2015 (2015) 'Image Compression using Moving Average Histogram and RBF Network'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link]
2015 (2015) 'AUTONOMOUS ROBOT PATH PLANNING USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION IN STATIC AND OBSTACLE ENVIRONMENT'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2014 (2014) 'A COST-EFFECTIVE INDIGENOUS WIRELESS ELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPE USING RF'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link]
2014 (2014) 'Noise Reduction Technique for Images using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link]

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2024 Yang, Ren; Timofte, Radu; Li, Bingchen; Li, Xin; Guo, Mengxi; Zhao, Shijie; Zhang, Li; Chen, Zhibo; Zhang, Dongyang; Arora, Yash; Arora, Aditya; Chen, Yuanbin; Tang, Hui; Wang, Tao; Zhao, Longxuan; Chen, Bin; Tong, Tong; Mo, Qiao; Bao, Jingwei; Hao, Jinhua; Ding, Yukang; Li, Hantang; Sun, Ming; Zhou, Chao; Zhu, Shuyuan; Jin, Zhi; Wang, Wei; Zhan, Dandan; Wu, Jiawei; Wu, Jiahao; Tu, Luwei; An, Hongyu; Zhang, Xinfeng; Yeo, Woon-Ha; Oh, Wang-Taek; Kim, Young-Il; Ryu, Han-Cheol; Sun, Long; Zhen, Mingjun; Pan, Jinshan; Dong, Jiangxin; Tang, Jinhui; Du, Yapeng; Li, Ao; He, Ziyang; Luo, Lei; Zhu, Ce; Yao, Xin; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Lee, I. K. Hyun; Lee, Jaeho; Kim, Seongwan; Sharif, S. M. A.; Khujacv, Nodirkhuja; Tsoy, Roman (2024) 2024 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION WORKSHOPS, CVPRW NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Blind Enhancement of Compressed Image: Methods and Results [DOI]
2024 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Keshav Singh; Lewis Nkenyereye; Dan Kilper (2024) 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) ZETA: ZEro-Trust Attack Framework with Split Learning for Autonomous Vehicles in 6G Networks [Link] [DOI]
2023 Yawei Li; Yulun Zhang; Radu Timofte; Luc Van Gool; Zhijun Tu; Kunpeng Du; Hailing Wang; Hanting Chen; Wei Li; Xiaofei Wang; Jie Hu; Yunhe Wang; Xiangyu Kong; Jinlong Wu; Dafeng Zhang; Jianxing Zhang; Shuai Liu; Furui Bai; Chaoyu Feng; Hao Wang; Yuqian Zhang; Guangqi Shao; Xiaotao Wang; Lei Lei; Rongjian Xu; Zhilu Zhang; Yunjin Chen; Dongwei Ren; Wangmeng Zuo; Qi Wu; Mingyan Han; Shen Cheng; Haipeng Li; Ting Jiang; Chengzhi Jiang; Xinpeng Li; Jinting Luo; Wenjie Lin; Lei Yu; Haoqiang Fan; Shuaicheng Liu; Aditya Arora; Syed Waqas Zamir; Javier Vazquez-Corral; Konstantinos G. Derpanis; Michael S. Brown; Hao Li; Zhihao Zhao; Jinshan Pan; Jiangxin Dong; Jinhui Tang (2023) 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Image Denoising: Methods and Results [Link] [DOI]
2023 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Angelos Antonopoulos; Maurizio Magarini (2023) GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference DASTAN-CNN: RF Fingerprinting for the Mitigation of Membership Inference Attacks in 5G [Link] [DOI]
2023 Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Angelos Antonopoulos (2023) ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications SPIN: Simulated Poisoning and Inversion Network for Federated Learning-Based 6G Vehicular Networks [Link] [DOI]
2023 Yulun Zhang; Kai Zhang; Zheng Chen; Yawei Li; Radu Timofte; Junpei Zhang; Kexin Zhang; Rui Peng; Yanbiao Ma; Licheng Jia; Huaibo Huang; Xiaoqiang Zhou; Yuang Ai; Ran He; Yajun Qiu; Qiang Zhu; Pengfei Li; Qianhui Li; Shuyuan Zhu; Dafeng Zhang; Jia Li; Fan Wang; Chunmiao Li; TaeHyung Kim; Jungkeong Kil; Eon Kim; Yeonseung Yu; Beomyeol Lee; Subin Lee; Seokjae Lim; Somi Chae; Heungjun Choi; ZhiKai Huang; YiChung Chen; YuanChun Chiang; HaoHsiang Yang; WeiTing Chen; HuaEn Chang; I-Hsiang Chen; ChiaHsuan Hsieh; SyYen Kuo; Ui-Jin Choi; Marcos V. Conde; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Jiseok Yoon; Ik Hyun Lee; Garas Gendy; Nabil Sabor; Jingchao Hou; Guanghui He; Zhao Zhang; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Sunder Ali Khowaja (2023) 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (×4): Methods and Results [Link] [DOI]
2022 Ren Yang; Radu Timofte; Meisong Zheng; Qunliang Xing; Minglang Qiao; Mai Xu; Lai Jiang; Huaida Liu; Ying Chen; Youcheng Ben; Xiao Zhou; Chen Fu; Pei Cheng; Gang Yu; Junyi Li; Renlong Wu; Zhilu Zhang; Wei Shang; Zhengyao Lv; Yunjin Chen; Mingcai Zhou; Dongwei Ren; Kai Zhang; Wangmeng Zuo; Pavel Ostyakov; Vyal Dmitry; Shakarim Soltanayev; Chervontsev Sergey; Zhussip Magauiya; Xueyi Zou; Youliang Yan; Pablo Navarrete Michelini; Yunhua Lu; Diankai Zhang; Shaoli Liu; Si Gao; Biao Wu; Chengjian Zheng; Xiaofeng Zhang; Kaidi Lu; Ning Wang; Thuong Nguyen Canh; Thong Bach; Qing Wang; Xiaopeng Sun; Haoyu Ma; Shijie Zhao; Junlin Li; Liangbin Xie; Shuwei Shi; Yujiu Yang (2022) 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Dataset, Methods and Results [Link] [DOI]
2020 Muhammad Waseem; Sundar Ali Khowaja; Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy; Farhan Bashir (2020) 2020 International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI) Face Recognition for Smart Door Lock System using Hierarchical Network [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) A Framework for Real Time Emotion Recognition Based on Human ANS Using Pervasive Device [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) A Novel Curvature Feature Embedded Level Set Method for Image Segmentation of Coronary Angiograms [Link] [DOI]
2017 (2017) Korean DataBase Conference 2017 Towards Anomaly Detection System using Wearable Sensors
2017 Shah, R.A.; Chowdhary, B.S.; Shah, S.; Khowaja, S.A. (2017) Proceedings of 2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems, C-CODE 2017 Energy efficient mobile user tracking system with node activation mechanism using wireless sensor networks [Link] [DOI]
2016 Khowaja, S.A.; Dahri, K.; Kumbhar, M.A.; Soomro, A.M. (2016) Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2015 Facial expression recognition using two-tier classification and its application to smart home automation system [Link] [DOI]
2015 Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dahri, Kamran; Kumbhar, Muhammad Aslam; Soomro, Altaf Mazhar (2015) 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (ICET) Facial Expression Recognition using two-tier classification and its Application to Smart Home Automation System

Book

Year Publication
2013 Khowaja, S.A.; Lakho, I.K.; Dhomeja, L.D. (2013) Extending network life time of WSN through an optimal number of aggregator nodes for data aggregation protocols. [Link] [DOI]
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
IEEE Senior Member -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
20/04/2024 Best Paper Award IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
20/06/2023 Second Runner Up at UG2+ Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation Challenge IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference
23/11/2018 Best Paper Award Korea DataBase Conference (KDBC)
20/06/2022 First Runner Up UG2+ Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation Challenge IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Admission Committee - University of Sindh, Pakistan 23/08/2012 - 05/03/2014
Research Committee - TU Dublin 01/10/2024 - 13/12/2024
Board of Studies, University of Sindh, Pakistan 30/07/2020 -
IEEE Metaverse Newsletter 05/02/2024 -

Employment

Employer Position From / To
Tech University of Korea Postdoctoral Research Fellow 01/10/2021 - 31/03/2022
New Horizon IT Ltd. System Support Engineer 13/12/2010 - 15/07/2011
University of Sindh Lecturer 29/07/2011 - 26/03/2018
Comstar ISA Ltd. Network Engineer 12/05/2008 - 09/09/2010
University of Sindh Assistant Professor 26/03/2018 - 30/11/2023
Technological University Dublin Assistant Lecturer 04/12/2023 - 13/12/2024

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
22/02/2016 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Ph.D. Industrial and Information Systems Engineering

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
Hindi None None Functional
Urdu Fluent Fluent Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Sindhi Fluent Fluent Fluent
Panjabi; Punjabi Functional Basic Functional
Korean Functional Basic Basic

Reviews

Journal Role
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences Series Editor
Computers in Human Behavior Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Reviewer
Ieee Transactions On Network Science And Engineering Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing Reviewer
Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Series Editor
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Series Editor
Applied Soft Computing Journal Reviewer
IEEE Sensors Journal Reviewer
IEEE Signal Processing Letters Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence Reviewer
Information Fusion Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Reviewer
Computer Communications Series Editor
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems Reviewer
IET Computer Vision Reviewer
Neural Networks Reviewer
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Reviewer
PLoS ONE Editor
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Series Editor
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Series Editor
Computer Vision and Image Understanding Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking Series Editor
Expert Systems with Applications Reviewer
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Reviewer
Ieee Internet Of Things Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Reviewer
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Series Editor
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Reviewer
IEEE Communications Magazine Reviewer
Ieee Transactions On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence Reviewer

Other Activities

Description
Supervised 4 Masters Students

Enterprise Engagement

Year Engagement Type Client Description
2018 Invited talk/presentation Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan New Research Trends in the Field of Data Analytics and Internet of Things
2014 Continuous Professional Development/Training Sindh University Campus Mirpurkhas How to Choose Final Year Project for Computer Science/ IT students
2017 Invited talk/presentation Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan New Research Trends in the Field of Data Analytics and Machine Learning
2013 Invited talk/presentation Dawood University of Engineering and Technology Invited talk on Cognitive Radios and Use of Communication Whitespaces.
2018 Invited talk/presentation Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
2017 Invited talk/presentation Department of Computer Science, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan New Research Trends in the Field of Data Analytics and Machine Learning
2017 Invited talk/presentation Department of Computer Science, University of Sindh, Pakistan Towards Affective Computing and Ambient Intelligence using Wearable Sensors
2015 Continuous Professional Development/Training Sindh University Campus Mirpurkhas MATLAB: The language of technical computing

Media

Title Year Type Authors
How to Cloud and AI impact the future of every industry and every human being 2021 Other Hafiz Muhammad Ataullah, Sunder Ali Khowaja

External Collaborators

Type Name Company Role
External Kapal Dev Munster Technological University Academic