Sunder Ali Khowaja
Dr
I bring a rich blend of academic and industrial experience to the computer vision, deep learning, and privacy preservation domain. I am a senior member of IEEE along with an Associate Investigator at CONNECT Centre and Academic Collaborator at ADAPT Centre, Ireland. My educational journey began with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Information Systems Engineering from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Yongin, Republic of Korea, where I focused on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Computing Methods using Machine Learning, Wearable Sensors, and Imaging techniques under the guidance of Prof. Seok-Lyong Lee. I further honed my skills with a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Tech University of Korea under the guidance of Prof. Ik Hyun Lee. My current research interests include, Privacy Preservation Machine Learning, Model Inversion Attacks, Responsible Generative AI, and Sustainable AI.
I am currently associated with Dublin City University as an Assistant Professor. I have previously served as a Faculty member at Technological University Dublin (2023 - 2024), as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer (from 2011 - 2023) at University of Sindh, Pakistan. I have the experience of working with multinational companies as a Network and RF Engineer from 2008 to 2011. I have published more than 70 research articles in national, international journals, and conference proceedings. I am the runner-up recipient for UG2+ Competition (Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation) at CVPR2022 and second runner-up for UG2+ Competition (Target Coded Restoration Challenge) at CVPR 2023. Furthermore, I have achieved Top ten positions in several of the CVPR challenges from 2022 to 2024. I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for PLoS ONE and Consumer Electronics Letters. In addition, I am serving(ed) as a Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networks, IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, and Sustainable Energy Technology and Assessments. I have also served as a TPC member for main tracks and workshops in A* Conferences, such as ECAI, Globecom, Mobicom, and ICDCS. I am a Regular Reviewer of notable journals, including IEEE Transactions, IEEE Journals, Elsevier Journals, and Springer Journals.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Anwar, Syed Muhammad; Linguraru, Marius George (2025) 'SelfFed: Self-supervised federated learning for data heterogeneity and label scarcity in medical images'. Expert Systems with Applications, 261 . [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Sunder Ali Khowaja; Usman Ali; Kapal Dev; Ik Hyun Lee (2025) 'Image Registration and Deep NeuroFuzzy Networks for Mitigating Atmospheric Turbulence Effects in Consumer-Based Optical Imaging'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, :1-10. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Sunder Al Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Keshav Singh; Xingwang Li; Nikolaos Bartzoudis (2025) 'Block Encryption LAyer (BELA): Zero-Trust Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks for Federated Learning in 5G/6G Systems'. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, :1-14. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Sunder Ali Khowaja; Kamran Dahri; Muhammad Aslam Jarwar; Ik Hyun Lee (2024) 'Spike learning based Privacy Preservation of Internet of Medical Things in Metaverse'. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Mujtaba, Ghulam; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Jarwar, Muhammad Aslam; Choi, Jaehyuk; Ryu, Eun-Seok (2024) 'FRC-GIF: Frame Ranking-Based Personalized Artistic Media Generation Method for Resource Constrained Devices'. Ieee Transactions On Big Data, 10 (4):343-355. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Nkenyereye, Lewis; Mujtaba, Ghulam; Lee, Ik Hyun; Fortino, Giancarlo; Dev, Kapal (2024) 'FISTNet: FusIon of STyle-path generative Networks for facial style transfer'. Information Fusion, 112 . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Rui Liu; Kefeng Guo; Xingwang Li; KAPAL DEV; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Theodoros A. Tsiftsis; Houbing Song (2024) 'RIS-Empowered Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks With PD-NOMA'. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Sunder Ali Khowaja; Parus Khuwaja; Kapal Dev; Weizheng Wang; Lewis Nkenyereye (2024) 'ChatGPT Needs SPADE (Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics) Evaluation: A Review'. Cognitive Computation, 16 :2528-2550. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Zawish, Muhammad; Dharejo, Fayaz Ali; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Raza, Saleem; Davy, Steven; Dev, Kapal; Bellavista, Paolo (2024) 'AI and 6G Into the Metaverse: Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Research Trends'. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 5 :730-778. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Nkenyereye, Lewis; Khowaja, Parus; Dev, Kapal; Niyato, Dusit (2024) 'SLIP: Self-Supervised Learning Based Model Inversion and Poisoning Detection-Based Zero-Trust Systems for Vehicular Networks'. IEEE Wireless Communications, 31 (2):50-57. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Dharejo, Fayaz Ali; Raza, Saleem; Lee, Ik Hyun; Naqvi, Rizwan Ali; Dev, Kapal (2024) 'ReFuSeAct: Representation fusion using self-supervised learning for activity recognition in next generation networks'. Information Fusion, 102 . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Xu, Dequan; Peng, Changgen; Wang, Weizheng; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Tian, Youliang (2024) 'Multikeyword-Ranked Search Scheme Supporting Extreme Environments for Internet of Vehicles'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 11 (3):3868-3880. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Yoon, Jiseok; Song, Jeongheon; Hussain, Tanveer; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Muhammad, Khan; Lee, Ik Hyun (2024) 'Hybrid Conv-Attention Networks for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery-Based Target Recognition'. Ieee Access, 12 :53045-53055. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Almakdi, Sultan; Memon, Muhammad Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Sulaiman, Adel; Alqahtani, Ali; Shaikh, Asadullah; Alghamdi, Abdullah (2024) 'Extending user control for image stylization using hierarchical style transfer networks'. Heliyon, 10 (5). [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Deebak, B. D.; Memon, Fida Hussain; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Wang, Weizheng; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh; Su, Chunhua (2023) 'A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Remote Mutual Authentication for AI-Empowered IoT Sustainable Computing Systems'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 10 (8):6652-6660. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Dev, Kapal; Jarwar, Muhammad Aslam (2023) 'PROMPT: Process Mining and Paravector Tensor-Based Physical Health Monitoring Framework'. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23 (2):989-996. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Dev, Kapal; D'Aniello, Giuseppe (2023) 'VIRFIM: an AI and Internet of Medical Things-driven framework for healthcare using smart sensors'. NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, 35 (22):16175-16192. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Peng, Mengyao; Hu, Jia; Lin, Hui; Wang, Xiaoding; Liu, Peng; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2023) 'Spatiotemporal Prediction Based Intelligent Task Allocation for Secure Spatial Crowdsourcing in Industrial IoT'. Ieee Transactions On Network Science And Engineering, 10 (5):2853-2863. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Khuwaja, Parus; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal (2023) 'Adversarial Learning Networks for FinTech Applications Using Heterogeneous Data Sources'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 10 (3):2194-2201. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Lee, Ik Hyun; Dev, Kapal; Jarwar, Muhammad Aslam; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2023) 'Get Your Foes Fooled: Proximal Gradient Split Learning for Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks on IoMT Data'. Ieee Transactions On Network Science And Engineering, 10 (5):2607-2616. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Jarwar, Muhammad Aslam; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Adhikari, Mainak; Hakak, Saqib (2023) 'NEAT: A Resilient Deep Representational Learning for Fault Detection Using Acoustic Signals in IIoT Environment'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 10 (4):2864-2871. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Raja, Gunasekaran; Saravanan, Gayathri; Prathiba, Sahaya Beni; Akhtar, Zahid; Ali Khowaja, Sunder; Dev, Kapal (2023) 'Smart Navigation and Energy Management Framework for Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Complex Environments'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 10 (21):18641-18650. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Dev, Kapal; Lee, Ik Hyun; Khan, Wali Ullah; Wang, Weizheng; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh; Magarini, Maurizio (2023) 'A Secure Data Sharing Scheme in Community Segmented Vehicular Social Networks for 6G'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 19 (1):890-899. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Liu, Dengzhi; Zhang, Yong; Wang, Weizheng; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali (2023) 'Flexible Data Integrity Checking With Original Data Recovery in IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems'. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2):2618-2629. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Deebak, B. D.; Memon, Fida Hussain; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Wang, Weizheng; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2023) 'TAB-SAPP: A Trust-Aware Blockchain-Based Seamless Authentication for Massive IoT-Enabled Industrial Applications'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 19 (1):243-250. [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Dharejo, Fayaz Ali; Zawish, Muhammad; Deeba, Farah; Zhou, Yuanchun; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2023) 'Multimodal-Boost: Multimodal Medical Image Super-Resolution Using Multi-Attention Network With Wavelet Transform'. IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, 20 (4):2420-2433. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Dharejo, Fayaz Ali; Zawish, Muhammad; Zhou, Yuanchun; Davy, Steven; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Fu, Yanjie; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2022) 'FuzzyAct: A Fuzzy-Based Framework for Temporal Activity Recognition in IoT Applications Using RNN and 3D-DWT'. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 30 (11):4578-4592. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Wang, Qunshu; Li, Xingwang; Bhatia, Surbhi; Liu, Yuanwei; Alex, Linss T.; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Menon, Varun G. (2022) 'UAV-Enabled Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks for Ground-Air-Ground Communications'. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 6 (3):1340-1354. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Sharma, Prabhat Kumar; Chowdhry, Bhawani Shankar; Tanwar, Sudeep; Fortino, Giancarlo (2022) 'DDI: A Novel Architecture for Joint Active User Detection and IoT Device Identification in Grant-Free NOMA Systems for 6G and Beyond Networks'. Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 9 (4):2906-2917. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh; Khuwaja, Parus; Foschini, Luca (2022) 'Toward Industrial Private AI: A Two-Tier Framework for Data and Model Security'. IEEE Wireless Communications, 29 (2):76-83. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Kumar, Dileep; Ujjan, Sanaullah Mehran; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Hussain, Tanweer (2022) 'Towards soft real-time fault diagnosis for edge devices in industrial IoT using deep domain adaptation training strategy'. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 160 :90-99. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Deebak, B. D.; Memon, Fida Hussain; Cheng, Xiaochun; Dev, Kapal; Hu, Jia; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh; Choi, Kyung Huyn (2022) 'Seamless privacy-preservation and authentication framework for IoT-enabled smart eHealth systems'. Sustainable Cities and Society, 80 . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Khuwaja, Parus; Pham, Quoc-Viet; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh; Bellavista, Paolo; Magarini, Maurizio (2022) 'IIFNet: A Fusion-Based Intelligent Service for Noisy Preamble Detection in 6G'. IEEE Network, 36 (3):48-54. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Deebak, B. D.; Memon, Fida Hussain; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2022) 'AI-enabled privacy-preservation phrase with multi-keyword ranked searching for sustainable edge-cloud networks in the era of industrial IoT'. Ad Hoc Networks, 125 . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Sunder Ali Khowaja; Seok-Lyong Lee (2022) 'Skeleton-based human action recognition with sequential convolutional-LSTM networks and fusion strategies'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Deebak, B. D.; Memon, Fida Hussain; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Wang, Weizheng; Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh (2022) 'In the Digital Age of 5G Networks: Seamless Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Cognitive-Inspired Internet of Medical Things'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18 (12):8916-8923. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2021) 'Cascaded and Recursive ConvNets (CRCNN): An effective and flexible approach for image denoising'. SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION, 99 . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Bist, Ankur Singh; Saini, Vaibhav; Bhatia, Surbhi (2021) 'Triage of potential COVID-19 patients from chest X-ray images using hierarchical convolutional networks'. NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Dev, Kapal; Khowaja, Parus; Bellavista, Paolo (2021) 'TOWARD ENERGY-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED FEDERATED LEARNING FOR 6G NETWORKS'. IEEE Wireless Communications, 28 (6):34-40. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Prabono, Aria Ghora; Setiawan, Feri; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2021) 'Toward soft real-time stress detection using wrist-worn devices for human workspaces'. Soft Computing, 25 (4):2793-2820. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Dev, Kapal; Poluru, Ravi Kumar; Kumar, R. Lokesh; Maddikunta, Praveen Kumar Reddy; Khowaja, Sunder Ali (2021) 'Optimal Radius for Enhanced Lifetime in IoT Using Hybridization of Rider and Grey Wolf Optimization'. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 5 (2):635-644. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Wang, Han; Li, Xingwang; Jhaveri, Rutvij H.; Gadekallu, Thippa Reddy; Zhu, Mingfu; Ahanger, Tariq Ahamed; Khowaja, Sunder Ali (2021) 'Sparse Bayesian learning based channel estimation in FBMC/OQAM industrial IoT networks'. Computer Communications, 176 :40-45. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus (2021) 'Q-learning and LSTM based deep active learning strategy for malware defense in industrial IoT applications'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80 (10):14637-14663. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Setiawan, Feri; Prabono, Aria Ghora; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Kim, Wangsoo; Park, Kyoungsoo; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong; Hong, Jin Pyo (2020) 'Fine-grained emotion recognition: fusion of physiological signals and facial expressions on spontaneous emotion corpus'. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 35 (3):162-178. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Khuwaja, Parus; Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khoso, Imamuddin; Lashari, Intizar Ali (2020) 'Prediction of stock movement using phase space reconstruction and extreme learning machines'. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 32 (1):59-79. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) 'Automated Flower Classification using Transfer Learning and Meta-Learners in Deep Learning Framework'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2020 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2020) 'CAPHAR: context-aware personalized human activity recognition using associative learning in smart environments'. HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, 10 (1). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2020) 'Semantic Image Networks for Human Action Recognition'. International Journal of Computer Vision, 128 (2):393-419. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2020) 'Hybrid and hierarchical fusion networks: a deep cross-modal learning architecture for action recognition'. NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, 32 (14):10423-10434. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Khuwaja, Parus; Ismaili, Imdad Ali (2019) 'A framework for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images using hybrid feature set and hierarchical classification'. SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING, 13 (2):379-387. [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Prabono, Aria Ghora; Setiawan, Feri; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2018) 'Contextual activity based Healthcare Internet of Things, Services, and People (HIoTSP): An architectural framework for healthcare monitoring using wearable sensors'. Computer Networks, 145 :190-206. [DOI] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'The effect of exchange rate volatility on the transitional behavior of brokers: A perspective from Knowledge-driven Agent-based modeling with Software Simulation'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'Automated Extraction of Retinal Blood Vessels for Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Enhancement Filters and Adaboost'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2017 | Khowaja, Sunder Ali; Yahya, Bernardo Nugroho; Lee, Seok-Lyong (2017) 'Hierarchical classification method based on selective learning of slacked hierarchy for activity recognition systems'. Expert Systems with Applications, 88 :165-177. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | (2016) 'Classification of Broken Rice Kernels using 12D Features'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2016 | Khowaja, S. A.; Unar, M. A.; Ismaili, I. A.; Khuwaja, P. (2016) 'Supervised method for blood vessel segmentation from coronary angiogram images using 7-D feature vector'. Imaging Science Journal, 64 (4):196-203. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Khowaja, S.A.; Setiawan, F.; Prabono, A.G.; Yahya, B.N.; Lee, S.-L. (2016) 'An effective threshold based measurement technique for fall detection using smart devices'. International Journal of Industrial Engineering : Theory Applications and Practice, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'AUTONOMOUS ROBOT PATH PLANNING USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION IN STATIC AND OBSTACLE ENVIRONMENT'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'Image Compression using Moving Average Histogram and RBF Network'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'DC COEFFICIENTS COMPARISON BASED APPROACH FOR FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'IMAGE DENOISING USING ADAPTIVE WIENER FILTERS WITH RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION AND ITS COMPARISON WITH WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED METHODS'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2014 | (2014) 'Noise Reduction Technique for Images using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks'. Mehran University Research Journal, . [Link] | |
| 2014 | (2014) 'A COST-EFFECTIVE INDIGENOUS WIRELESS ELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPE USING RF'. Sindh University Research Journal, . [Link] |
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