Asiya Khan

EDI Committee Member

Asiya Khan is an Associate Professor of Multimedia Communication & Intelligent Control at the University of Plymouth and recently seconded to DSIT Science and Technology Fellowship (AI Risk Adviser). She received her BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from University of Glasgow, MSc in Communications, Control & Digital Signal Processing from Strathclyde University and PhD from University of Plymouth. She has contributed to pedagogic scholarship and research especially in addressing under-represented groups in engineering. She has received funding from RAEng under the ‘Diversity Impact Programme’ supporting neurodiverse and disabled engineering students and towards developing engineering education for social inclusion. She has received funding from the British Council, EPSRC and EU ERDF.

She has published over 80 peer reviewed journal and conference papers; several book chapters and abstracts. She received a ‘best paper award’ in 2009 and a ‘best extended abstract award’ in 2022.

Her current research interests include prediction and control of video quality, cloud computing, fuzzy logic, developing artificial intelligence/machine learning/computer vision models in engineering applications such as pedestrian recognition, disease identification in cotton crops, controlled environment agriculture, damage recognition in wind turbine blades techniques, etc.

She is a reviewer for several Springer, IEEE and IET journal. She is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IET, Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. ORCID: 0000-0003-3620-3048