Amir Hussain

Professor Amir Hussain received a B.Eng (First-Class Honours with Distinction) and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Following a UK Government (UKRI EPSRC) funded Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of the West of Scotland, UK (1996–1998), and a Research Lectureship at the University of Dundee, UK (1998–2000), he joined the University of Stirling, UK, in 2000, where he was appointed Professor (Personal Chair) of Cognitive Computing in 2012. From 2018 to 2026, he served as Professor of Trustworthy AI and Founding Director of the Centre of AI and Robotics at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, before joining King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA, in 2026 as Chair Professor of AI. He also currently serves as Visiting Professor of AI and Health at the University of Oxford, UK, and holds distinguished invited appointments at a number of other leading universities. His research is highly interdisciplinary and industry-driven, focusing on cognitively inspired, trustworthy, and responsible AI for smart healthcare and industrial systems of the future. He is a 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, with over 700 publications, including approximately 400 journal papers, over 40,000 citations, and 30+ books. He has led major national and international research programmes totalling over $10 million, co-founded globally successful spinouts, and supervised over 45 PhD students. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Q1-ranked AI journal Cognitive Computation (Springer Nature) and serves on the editorial boards of Information Fusion (Elsevier) and multiple leading IEEE Transactions, including IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He also serves as an AI advisor to governments and industry and regularly chairs flagship IEEE conferences, including IEEE WCCI 2020, IEEE SWC 2023, and the forthcoming IEEE CEC 2027.