Scholar
Zahid Akhtar
Google Scholar ID: WSsLM18AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,859
H-index
31
i10-index
85
Publications
20
Co-authors
183
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence journal's Outstanding Associate Editor (2023), IEEE Access Journal's Outstanding Associate Editor (2023) award, Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Biometrics Journal (2014), Outstanding Paper Award at the International Conference on Internet (2017), Best Industry-Oriented research work award at National Seminar on Physics and Technology of Sensors (2007), Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award in the prestigious journal Pattern Recognition Letters (2016), and Five times Best Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (2017-2021). Also, a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Research Experience
- Has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Cybersecurity Program at State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (USA) since August 2020. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor at University of Memphis, USA (2018-2020), and a Postdoctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT-University of Quebec, Canada (2016-2018), University of Udine, Italy (2013-2016), Bahcesehir University, Turkey (2013), and University of Cagliari, Italy (2012-2013). He was also a visiting Research Fellow at University of Cagliari, Italy, from 2008 to 2009, and a Junior Research Fellow at University of Pune, India, between 2005 to 2008. In 2004, he worked as a summer intern at Tata Motors Limited, India.
Education
- Received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from University of Cagliari (Italy).
Background
- Current research focuses on AI-driven solutions for deepfakes, cybersecurity, biometrics, adversarial machine learning, emotion recognition, medical diagnostics, and audiovisual multimedia quality assessment.
Miscellany
- Served as keynote/invited speaker at multiple international conferences and guest editor for several special issues in various journals.
