School of Science

Dr Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam

Syed is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and a Member of Low-risk Ethics and Grants Evaluation sub-committees in the School of Science, and a University Contact Officer (UCO) in the Office of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equity and Indigenous).

Current Teaching

• CSI6209 Artificial Intelligence (Postgraduate)
• CSI1241 Systems Analysis
• CSI2343 Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• CSG3101/CSI61224 Applied Project

Background

Dr Islam is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in the Discipline of Computing and Security at School of Science in Edith Cowan University. He is also serving as a University Contact Officer under Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Equity and Indigenous), and a member of the Academic Study Leave Committee and Low-risk Ethics Committee. He is a founding member of the Centre for AI and ML (CAIML) and leading the theme Human AI collaboration in Ecology and Environmental monitoring. He is also the founding Lead of the 3D sensing, visualization, and analytics Lab. Before joining ECU, he worked in different teaching and research positions at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Curtin University. He conducts innovative teaching and multidisciplinary research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Medical Imaging, Robotics, Remote Sensing, Biometrics, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering.

He completed PhD with Distinction in Computer Engineering (CE) from UWA in 2011 and received an MSc (CE) from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and BSc (EEE) from the Islamic University of Technology in 2005 and 2000 respectively. He has also completed professional courses in AI from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Dr Islam has supervised to completion 11 higher degree by research students and published over 80 scholarly articles including 32 journal articles (21 in Quartile-1). He has attracted 27 public media releases including TV news, grants (of around four million Australian dollars) and awards including the High Achieving Researcher 2021 award by ECU and best paper awards in IVCNZ’22, DICTA’19, DICTA 21, and ICMLDE’18 conferences.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, a Guest Editor of Applied Science, and a regular reviewer of over 30 technical conferences including CVPR, EECV, WACV, and over 10 Q1 journals. He has also been serving as a member of the IEEE Access Ad-hoc Committee for Plagiarism Investigation, Evaluator and Rapporteur of the SMASH Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and external reviewer/assessor of EUROFLEETS+ and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants.

Dr Islam is serving as the General Chair for Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2024 to be held in Perth, WA from Nov 25-29, 2024. Previously, he served as Organising Committee member of over 13 conferences in different roles including an Invited Session Chair in ICONIP 2023, Publication Chair in DICTA 2023, Workshop and Special Session Chair in DICTA 2021, Award Chair in DICTA 2020, Technical Program Chair in ICCBI 2018, and Session Chair in ICMLDE 2017-2019. He is also a Senior member of both the IEEE and Australian Computer Society. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Scholarship Committee and has been Chairing the IEEE WA SPS Chapter since 2021.

Professional Memberships

• 2019-present – IEEE WA Section (Executive Committee Member)
• 2019-present – IEEE WA Signal Processing Chapter (Secretary)
• 2017-present – Australian Computer Society (Senior Member)
• 2010-present – IEEE (Senior Member)
• 2012- present – Australian Pattern Recognition Society (Member)
• 2011-2016 – IEEE Computer Society
• 2018-2019 – Australian Computer Society (WA Branch Conference committee member)

Awards and Recognition

National and International Awards

• 2019 – DST Best Contribution to Science Award, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2019
• 2018 – Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (iCMLDE 2018)
• 2017 – Certified Professional (CP), Australian Computer Society
• 2013 – Travel Grant Award, International Association of Dental Research
• 2011 – UWA Early Career Postdoc Special Commendation Award for Publication
• 2010 – Award of Distinction (for PhD thesis), the Board of Graduate Research School, UWA

University and National Teaching Awards

• 2020 – The Finalist for the 29th Lateral INCITE Awards (Peter Fillery Best Undergraduate Tertiary Student Project of the Year)
• 2019 – Bankwest Postgraduate Computer Science Prize
• 2019 – Unibank Computing/Security Project Award
• 2019 – The Finalist for the 28th WAITTA INCITE Awards (Peter Fillery Best Undergraduate Tertiary Student Project of the Year)
• 2018 – Australian Computer Society Applied IT Project Prize 2018
• 2018 – Unibank Computing/Security Project Award

National and International Research Positions

• 2020 – External Reviewer, EUROFLEETS+ Regional, EUROFLEETSPlus (an alliance of European Marine Research Infrastructure).
• 2020 – Award/Promotion Chair, DICTA 2020
• 2020-present – Associate Editor, IEEE Access
• 2019-present – Guest Editor, Healthcare
• 2019 – Publication Chair, DICTA 2019
• 2015 – External Assessor, Project Grant 2015, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

Research Areas and Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Vision
• Pattern Recognition
• Big-Data Analysis
• Biometrics
• Medical Imaging
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Image Processing
• Biomedical Engineering