Muhammad Umair Hassan

Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Larsgårdsvegen 2, 6009, Ålesund, Norway.
(0047) 4866 3587· mumairhsn@gmail.com

Muhammad Umair Hassan is currently working as a Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Norsvin SA. Previously he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, where he also did his PhD in Computer Science. He completed his master's in computer science and engineering from the University of Jinan, China, and a bachelor's in computer science from the University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has worked as a research assistant at Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network-Based Intelligent Computing, University of Jinan, China. His research interests include Digital Twins, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing. He has previously worked in Computer Networking, Cloud Computing, and Web Development.

Education

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

PhD
Computer Science

Thesis Title: Advancing Digital Twin Creation for Smart Cities: Innovative Approaches in Visual Representation and Simulation

November 2020 - December 2024

University of Jinan, China

Master of Science
Computer Science and Technology

CGPA: 4.19/5.00

September 2017 - June 2020

University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science

CGPA: 3.32/4.00

October 2013 - July 2017

Publications

  • Crossing Linguistic Barriers: Authorship Attribution in Sinhala Texts

    ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (IF: 2.00)

    SARWAR, Raheem; PERERA, Maneesha; TEH, Pin Shen; NAWAZ, Raheel; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

    Link to Paper

  • Vision Based Intelligent Traffic Light Management System using Faster R-CNN

    CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (IF: 5.10)

    ABBAS, Syed Konain; KHAN, Muhammad Usman Ghani; SARWAR, Raheem; ALJOHANI, Naif, R.; ZHU, Jia; HAMEED, Ibrahim A; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

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  • AGI-P: A Gender Identification Framework for Authorship Analysis Using Customized Fine-Tuning of Multilingual Language Model

    IEEE Access (IF: 3.90)

    SARWAR, Raheem; HA, Le An; ... & HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

    Link to Paper

  • SODRet: Instance Retrieval using Salient Object Detection for Self-service Shopping

    Machine Learning with Applications

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZHAO, Xiuyang; SARWAR, Raheem; Aljohani, Naif, R.; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Image Generation Models from Scene Graphs and Layouts: A Comparative Analysis

    Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (IF: 6.90)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ALALIYAT, Saleh; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Leveraging deep learning and big data to enhance computing curriculum for industry-relevant skills: A Norwegian case study

    Heliyon (IF: 4.00)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ALALIYAT, Saleh; SARWAR, Raheem; NAWAZ, Raheel; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Predictive Maintenance of Norwegian Road Network Using Deep Learning Models

    Sensors (IF: 3.90)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; STEINNES, Ole-Martin Hagen; GUSTAFSSON, Eirik Gribbestad; LØKEN, Sivert; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Efficient Trajectory Clustering with Road Network Constraints Based on Spatiotemporal Buffering

    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IF: 3.40)

    HUSSAIN, Syed Adil; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NASAR, Wajeeha; … & HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Computational Intelligence-Based Disease Severity Identification: A Review of Multidisciplinary Domains

    Diagnostics (IF: 3.60)

    BHAKAR, Suman; SINWAR, Deepak; PRADHAN, Nitesh; … & HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

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  • A Methodology for Shape Matching of Non-rigid Structures Based on Integrated Graphical Information

    Displays (IF: 4.30)

    ZHANG, Mingxuan; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; ZHAO, Xiuyang; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.; HASSAN, Saeed-Ul.

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  • A novel person re-identification network to address low-resolution problem in smart city context

    ICT Express (IF: 5.40)

    YAQOOB, Irfan; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; ZHAO, Xiuyang; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.; HASSAN, Saeed-Ul.

    Link to Paper

  • Asymmetric hashing based on generative adversarial network

    Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 3.60)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; ZHANG, Mingxuan; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • Deep Privacy based Face Anonymization for Smart Cities

    International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets 2023)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; STAVA, Magnus; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

    Link to Paper

  • Digital Twins for Lighting Analysis: Literature Review, Challenges, and Research Opportunities

    36th International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2022)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ANGELAKI, Stavroula; … & TORRES, Ricardo da Silva.

    Link to Paper

  • Collaborative Filtering Based Hybrid Music Recommendation System

    In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2021)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZAFAR, Numan; ALI, Haider; YAQOOB, Irfan; ALALIYAT, Saleh Abdel Afou; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • A Comprehensive Study of HBase Storage Architecture—A Systematic Literature Review

    Symmetry (IF: 2.70)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; YAQOOB, Irfan; ZULFIQAR, Sidra; HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Health Monitoring of Air Compressors Using Reconstruction-Based Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection with Increased Transparency

    Entropy (IF: 2.70)

    GRIBBESTAD, Magnus; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; HAMEED, Ibrahim A; SUNDLI, Kelvin.

    Link to Paper

  • Transfer Learning for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) of Marine Air Compressors

    Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (IF: 2.90)

    GRIBBESTAD, Magnus; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair;HAMEED, Ibrahim A.

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  • Salient Object Detection based on CNN Fusion of Two Types of Saliency Models

    34th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ’19)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; ZHAO, Xiuyang; SHOHAG, Md Shakil Ahamed; MA, Yingjun; ZHANG, Mingxuan.

    Link to Paper

  • A framework for the revision of large-scale image retrieval benchmarks

    11th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2019)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; SHOHAG, Md Shakil Ahamed; NIU, Dongmei; SHAUKAT, Kamran; ZHANG, Mingxuan; ZHAO, Wenshuang; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • Effective Detection of Mobile Malware Behavior based on Explainable Deep Neural Network

    Neurocomputing (IF: 6.00)

    YAN, Anli; CHEN; Zhenxiang; ZHANG, Haibo; PENG, Lizhi; YAN, Qiben; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZHAO, Chuan; YANG, Bo.

    Link to Paper

  • Point Set Registration Based on Feature Point Constraints

    The Visual Computer (IF: 3.50)

    LI, Mai; ZHANG; Mingxuang; NIU, Dongmei; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZHAO, Xiuyang; LI, Na.

    Link to Paper

  • Shape Correspondence based Effective Combination of Linear and Quadratic Assignment Matrices

    11th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2019)

    ZHANG, Mingxuan; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; ZHAO, Xiuyang; LIU, Mingjun; ZHOU, Jin; LI, Na.

    Link to Paper

  • Graph Based Image Matching Using the Fusion of Several Kinds of Features

    In Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing (ICMSSP 2019)

    SHOHAG, Md Shakil Ahamed; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; Kong, Xiangyu; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • Tyre Defect Detection Based on GLCM and Gabor Filter

    In 22nd IEEE International Multi Topic Conference 2019 (IEEE INMIC 2019)

    SHABIR, Muhammad Ahmad; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; YU, Xiangru; LI, Jinping.

    Link to Paper

  • Extensive Techniques to Detect Defects in Tyres through Radiography

    In 22nd IEEE International Multi Topic Conference 2019 (IEEE INMIC 2019)

    SHABIR, Muhammad Ahmad; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; YU, Xiangru; LI, Jinping.

    Link to Paper

  • An Unsupervised Approach for 3D Medical Image Registration

    In Proceedings of the 2019 7th International Conference on Information Technology: IoT and Smart City (ICIT 2019)

    MA, Yingjun; ZHANG, Jinshuo; NIU, Dongmei; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • Glandular cavity segmentation based on local correntropy-based K-means (LCK) clustering and morphological operations

    In Third International Workshop on Pattern Recognition

    MA, Yingjun; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; WANG, Liping.

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  • The Segmentation of Glandular Cavity based on K-means and Mathematical Morphology

    The 4th IEEE International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2017)

    MA, Yingjun; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; NIU, Dongmei; WANG, Liping.

    Link to Paper

  • An Overview of Schema Extraction and Matching Techniques

    2nd IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IMCEC 2018)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; SHAUKAT, Kamran; NIU, Dongmei; MAHREEN, Sundas; MA,Yingjun; HAIDER, Fatima; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • Web-Logs Prediction with Web Mining

    2nd IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IMCEC 2018)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; SHAUKAT, Kamran; NIU, Dongmei; MAHREEN, Sundas; MA,Yingjun; ZHAO, Xiuyang.

    Link to Paper

  • DroidDetector: a traffic-based platform to detect android malware using machine learning

    In Third International Workshop on Pattern Recognition

    SHEN, Jingya; CHEN, Zhenxiang; WANG, Shanshan; ZHU, Yuhui; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

    Link to Paper

  • Neural Network Rule Extraction for Real Time Traffic Behavior Identification

    2018 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics (SPAC2018)

    YAN, Anli; CHEN, Zhenxiang; WANG, Lin; PENG, Lizhi; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; ZHAO, Chuan.

    Link to Paper

  • MAC Protocols: A Comparative Study on Throughput Analysis and Improved Leach

    International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications (Scopus Indexed)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; SHAUKAT, Kamran; RAHMAN, Farzana; MA, Yingjun; YAN, Anli.

    In Press

  • DEAR-2: An Energy-Aware Routing Protocol with Guaranteed Delivery in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

    In Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks (Book Chapter)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; SHAHZAIB, Muhammad; SHAUKAT, Kamran; HUSSAIN, Syed Nakhshab; MUBASHIR, Muhammad; KARIM, Saad; SHABIR, Muhammad Ahmad.

    Link to Chapter

  • A Comparative Study on Frequent Link Disconnection problems in VANETs

    EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web and Information Technologies (Scopus Indexed)

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; KARIM, Saad; SHAH, Syed Kumail; ABBAS, Sammar; YASIN, Muhammad; SHAHZAIB, Muhammad; UMAIR, Muhammad.

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  • Novel Approaches to Improve Software Quality

    International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; UMAIR, Muhammad; ALI, Haider.

    Link to Paper

  • Software Quality Assurance Techniques: A Review

    International Journal of Information, Business and Management

    HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; MUBASHIR, Muhammad; SHABIR, Muhammad Ahmad; MUHIBB ULLAH, Muhammad.

    Link to Paper

  • Stop Words Elimination in Urdu Language using Finite State Automaton

    International Journal of Asian Language Processing

    SHAUKAT, Kamran; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair; MASOOD, Nayyer; SHAFAT, Ahmad.

    Link to Paper

  • Cloud Security through Encryption Techniques

    Transylvanian Review

    SHAUKAT, Kamran; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

    Link to Paper

  • An Efficient Stop Word Elimination Algorithm for Urdu Language

    2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON)

    SHAUKAT, Kamran; SHAFAT, Ahmad; HASSAN, Muhammad Umair.

    Link to Paper

Experience

Research Scientist

Department of Research & Development, Norsvin SA, Norway

Working in an R&D team to develop solutions for Norsvin leveraging the artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision.

May 2024 - Present

Assistant Professor

Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Teaching "Web Technologies - IDATA2301" to bachelor students. The students are focusing on front-end web development in this course.

October 2023 - April 2024

Research Assistant (Part Time)

Shandong Key Laboratory of Network-Based Intelligent Computing, University of Jinan, China

I focused on computer vision and deep learning in this lab. My responsibilities were to conduct a survey and design algorithms for deep learning-based image retrieval tasks. I also worked with my colleagues on improving the neural network, and the resultant study is under review on several venues.

September 2018 - June 2020

Teacher Assistant (Part Time)

Department of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

My responsibilities during TA ship were to conduct labs of Programming Fundamentals and Web Development in which I worked on different programming languages such as C++, Java, ASP .Net, and SQL. Also, I worked with students and teachers on different web development projects.

March 2015 - August 2016

Projects

Book Corner (Final Year Project)

University of the Punjab, Pakistan

The Book Corner is an android based application about the various book stores and publishers to make their books available online for android users developed as a final year project of our BS studies. The application is developed for book readers so that they can view the different books, browse for different books, and also get the information about incoming and available stock. The users can also place the order and add the books to wish-list for further purchasing. The application is user-friendly, with graphical screens and have support to directly chat with the vendor.

The developed project also deals with the e-Commerce area. The developed project contains several modules, we have used different technologies for developing the application, and different SDKs have been used to implement several APIs. The project is state of the art application and can be further enhanced by implementing other modules.

Chat Messenger Application (Semester Project)

University of the Punjab, Pakistan
  1. Developed using ASP .Net and C#
  2. User Login System
  3. HTTP Web Services used for sending Messages
  4. SQL Server 2012 used for database connectivity
  5. Searching module for users

Student Web Portal System (Semester Project)

University of the Punjab, Pakistan
  1. Developed using ASP .Net and C#
  2. Developed User Login System
  3. Students and Staff members have access to the system
  4. Student Information System
  5. jQuery used for animation and sliders

Online Shopping and Cart System (Semester Project)

University of the Punjab, Pakistan
  1. Developed using ASP .Net and C#
  2. Any member can register and view available products
  3. Only registered member can purchase multiple products regardless of quantity
  4. Contact Us page available to contact Admin for queries
  5. There are three roles available: Visitor, User and Admin
    1. Visitor can view available products
    2. User can view and purchase products
  6. Online Shopping Master Page (Similar MasterPage for Visitor, User and Admin)

Airline Reservation System (Semester Project)

University of the Punjab, Pakistan
  1. Developed using C++
  2. User Login System
  3. Customer Management System
    1. Search for seats
    2. Reservation facilities
    3. Seats availability
    4. Ticket fare according to type
  4. Graphical User Interface using C++

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Programming: Python, C/C++, C#, MATLAB, Java
  • Public Libraries: PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Caffe, OpenCV
  • Environments & IDE: Linux, Windows, Visual Studio 2015, NetBeans
  • Language: English (fluent), Mandarin (basic), Urdu (native)

Awards & Certifications

  • Fully Funded Chinese Government Scholarship for Master Studies (2017-2020)
  • Fully Funded Scholarship by VISTEC to participate in Machine Learning Research School (MLRS 2019), Bangkok, Thailand · See Certificate
  • Poster Presentation at Machine Learning Research School, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Delivered Oral Presentation at 11th ICDIP 2019, Guangzhou, China · See Certificate
  • Student Best Paper Award at IEEE IMCEC 2018, Xian, China · See Certificate
  • Delivered Oral Presentation at IEEE IMCEC 2018, Xian, China · See Certificate
  • Delivered Oral Presentation at EAI FUTURE5V 2017, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 3rd Place - in School of Information Science and Engineering, Graduate Academic Research Competition, Jinan, China · See Certificate
  • Python 101 for Data Science by Cognitive Class · See Certificate
  • Machine Learning with Python by Cognitive Class · See Certificate
  • Deep Learning Fundamentals by Cognitive Class · See Certificate
  • Deep Learning with TensorFlow by Cognitive Class · See Certificate

Interests

Apart from being a student, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I love traveling and visiting different countries and historical places. In the summer, I go swimming, and most of the times I go for mountain climbing.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies, I am an aspiring chef, and I love cooking. Also, I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the world of digital image processing and deep learning.

Contact Information

References

  1. Dr. Saleh Alaliyat Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
    Email: alaliyat.a.saleh@ntnu.no
  2. Dr. Raheem Sarwar OTEHM, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
    Email: r.sarwar@mmu.ac.uk
  3. Prof. Xiuyang Zhao School of Information Science & Engineering, University of Jinan, China.
    Email: zhaoxy@ujn.edu.cn
  4. Dr. Dongmei Niu School of Information Science & Engineering, University of Jinan, China.
    Email: ise_niudm@ujn.edu.cn