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Prof Amir Hussain

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Visiting Professor of AI and Health

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

PhD, BEng (University of Strathclyde)

Professor Amir Hussain is a globally recognised leader in fundamental and applied Artificial Intelligence (AI), currently serving as Chair Professor of AI at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), KSA. He is a Visiting Professor of AI and Health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, UK.

His interdisciplinary research advances cognitively-inspired and trustworthy-by-design AI systems, spanning causal and neuro-symbolic foundations to safe, ethical and regulatory-compliant deployment across health and assistive technologies, critical infrastructure and smart industrial systems. He is a 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in the Cross-Field category, ranking in the top 0.1% of scientists globally whose influential work significantly impacts multiple disciplines. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed publications, including a portfolio of patents, around 400 journal papers and 30+ books, with over 40,000 citations (H-index > 90) and more than 45 doctoral students supervised to completion.

He has led major national and international initiatives, including the multi-million pound UKRI EPSRC-funded COG-MHEAR research programme, which is transforming truly personalised, multimodal hearing and assistive AI technologies. He has been appointed to the Chair Panel of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College. Beyond academia, he has co-founded globally successful deep-tech spinouts and serves as an AI advisor to governments and industry.

Previously, he held key academic positions at the Universities of Dundee (1998–2000) and Stirling (2000–2018), where he was appointed Professor (Personal Chair) of Cognitive Computing in 2012. He subsequently served as Professor of Trustworthy AI, Founding Director of the Centre of AI and Robotics (CAIR) and Alan Turing Academic Lead at Edinburgh Napier University (2018–2026).

He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Computation (Springer Nature) and serves on the editorial boards of Information Fusion (Elsevier) and multiple IEEE Transactions, including those on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks and Learning Systems. He regularly chairs flagship global conferences, including IEEE WCCI 2020 (the world’s largest IEEE technical event on computational intelligence, comprising the premier IJCNN, FUZZ-IEEE and IEEE CEC), IEEE SWC 2023, and the forthcoming IEEE CEC 2027. He holds a BEng (First-Class Honours with Distinction) and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK.