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Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Affective Computing, AI for Healthcare, LLMs/VLMs.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, University of Oulu
Sep 2018 → May 2022
Award Date: 15 Jun 2022
Master, Signal and Image Processing, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Sep 2014 → Feb 2017
Award Date: 20 Feb 2017
Bachelor, Wireless Communication and Embedded Systems, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI)
Sep 2009 → Aug 2013
Award Date: 5 Aug 2013
External positions
Research Scholar, University College London
Oct 2021 → Feb 2022
Research Scholar, Brown University
Feb 2019 → May 2019
Scientific Researcher, University of Oulu
Sep 2018 → May 2022
Scientific Researcher, Pukyong National University
May 2018 → Aug 2018
Research Scholar, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
May 2016 → Aug 2016
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDG 14 Life Below Water
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Active
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Agentic AI for Intent-Driven Autonomous Cloud Resource Orchestration
Afaq, M. (PI) & Behzad, M. (CoI)
1/04/26 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Advancing Intelligent Systems: Large-Scale Vision-Language Models for 3D/4D Facial and Micro-Expression Recognition
Behzad, M. (PI)
1/02/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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Scalable Green Hydrogen Production using Polyaniline and NiFeS-Coated 3D Nickel Foam Catalysts
Usman, M. (PI), Khan, S. (CoI), Al-Betar, A. (CoI), Khan, N. A. (CoI), Ahmed, U. (CoI), Nadar Khan, S. K. (CoI), Behzad, M. (CoI) & Saeed, M. (CoI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Freqformer: Frequency-Aware Single Image Super Resolution Network for Biomedical HSI
Aburaed, N., Tliba, M., Behzad, M., Taifour, Y., Chetouani, A., Beghdadi, A., Cheikh, F. A. & Jennane, R., 2026, ISBI 2026 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. IEEE Computer Society, (Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging; vol. 2026-April).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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KRCapVLM: Beam-guided knowledge replay for knowledge-rich image captioning using vision-language model
Aljunaid, R., Umer, Q., Mahmood, S., Niazi, M. & Behzad, M., Nov 2026, In: Pattern Recognition. 179, 113568.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
MultiviewVLM: Unsupervised Multiview Contrastive Language-Image Joint Learning with Pseudo-Labeled Prompts Via Vision-Language Model for 3D/4D Facial Expression Recognition
Behzad, M., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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UDAN-CLIP: Diffusion attention network with contrastive language-image joint learning for underwater image enhancement
Shaahid, A. & Behzad, M., Nov 2026, In: Pattern Recognition. 179, 113573.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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AffectVLM: Contrastive Language-Image Learning with Augmented Textual Prompts for 3D/4D Facial Expression Recognition Using Vision-Language Model
Behzad, M. & Zhao, G., 2025, 2025 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (2025 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
2 Scopus citations