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Dr Rahat Iqbal is a senior academic with 20 years’ experience in industrial and academic roles. His main research interests lie in Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence and Energy Efficient Communication Protocols. He is leading the Research Group in Big Data and IoT in the Institute for Future Transport and Cities.
Dr Iqbal has supervised to completion 17 PhD students. He serves on programme committee and advisory committee of many international conferences and journals. He has published more 130 papers in international journals, conferences, book chapters and workshops. He has also co-invented 5 patents relating to biologically inspired deep machine learning approaches for fault detection & isolation, route optimisation and monitoring driving.
Dr Iqbal is a principle investigator on a 3.5-year PhD project (£104,892) titled "Urban flood monitoring and forecasting" funded by EIT Digital and UK Industrial partner (2021-2025).
Dr Iqbal is a principle investigator on a 3.5-year PhD project (£104,892) titled "Passenger profiling for autonomous car using AI / machine learning" funded by EIT Digital and UK Industrial partner (2021-2025).
Dr Iqbal is a principle investigator on a 2-year project (£105,310) titled “Digital Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Proving Ground (DIGICAV)”funded by Innovate UK in partnership with HORIBA MIRA (2019-2020).DIGICAV
Dr Iqbal is a principle investigator on a two-year project (£750,000) titled “Flood Ultra-Cognitive Dendrite (FLUD)” funded by Innovate UK and PlaTcom Venturs, Malaysia under the Technology Programme “Newton fund: UK-Malaysia urban Innovation Challenge 2017 Competition for funding.
Dr Iqbal is a principle investigator for knowledge transfer partnership and spin-out company, a supplier of high-tech intelligent data-driven solutions. He is seconded to work as CEO at Interactive Coventry Limited.
Dr Iqbal was principle investigator on a one year project (2012-2013) “Driver’s intent prediction: self-learning car initiative” funded (£49,301) by Technology Strategy Board funded in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.
From 2013 – 2015, Dr Iqbal worked on a number of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Network (KEEN) projects in collaboration with Infinity Wireless Ltd, Modus IT Ltd to develop high-tech solutions relating to data recovery apps and big data analytics for businesses. He was principle investigator on a two year project (2011-2013) “Development of an innovation teaching tool using web/mobile and service oriented technologies” funded by Technology Strategy Board Project in collaboration with Currant limited.
From 2009 - 2013, he was principle investigator for an EPSRC funded (£85,052) project titled “Task Sensitive Search Recommender System Based on Relevance Feedback”. The project was carried out in collaboration with Trinity Expert Systems.
From 2007 – 2009, Dr Iqbal was involved in a number of projects to introduce novel teaching, learning and assessment methods. These projects were funded by Coventry University, CILASS: Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. Also over this period, he was involved in a number of industrial consultation activities.
Dr Iqbal was also involved in the project management and development of the EU FP7 project CHIL (Computers in Human Interaction Loop) at the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Research Interests
Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Information Retrieval, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Energy Efficient Communication Protocols.
Vision Statement
Dr Rahat Iqbal is leading a Research Group in Big Data and IoT in the Institute of Future Transport and Cities with a strong ambition to achieve major innovations in big data analytics research and deliver high impact industrial and commercial applications addressing challenges in smart cities and industry 4.0.
External positions
Associate Editor, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier
1 Jan 2020 → …External Examiner for Arab Open University, Kuwait by OU, UK
1 Apr 2019 → 1 Apr 2023Founding Director at Interactive Coventry Ltd (spin out company)
23 Nov 2015 → …Fingerprint
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Data Driven Computational Models for Prediction and Simulation of Path Dependences in Complex Dynamic Labour Market Systems
Doctor, F., Iqbal, R. & Randeree, K.
1/12/16 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
Research output
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Big data analytics: Computational intelligence techniques and application areas
Iqbal, R., Doctor, F., More, B., Mahmud, S. & Yousuf, U., Apr 2020, In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 153, 119253.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Big Data analytics and Computational Intelligence for Cyber–Physical Systems: Recent trends and state of the art applications
Iqbal, R., Doctor, F., More, B., Mahmud, S. & Yousuf, U., Apr 2020, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 105, p. 766-778 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Method for Monitoring the Operational State of a System
Maniak, T. J., Iqbal, R. & Doctor, F., 22 May 2019, IPC No. G05B 23/02 (2006.01), Patent No. GB2554038A, 4 May 2016, Priority date 4 May 2016, Priority No. GB1607820.6AResearch output: Patent
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An integrated approach for intrinsic plagiarism detection
Alsallal, M., Iqbal, R., Palade, V., Amin, S. & Chang, V., Jul 2019, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 96, p. 700-712 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Convolutional Neural Network for CORE Sections Identification in Scientific Research Publications
Muhammad, B. A., Iqbal, R., James, A. & Nkantah, D., 14 Nov 2019, Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2019: 20th International Conference, Manchester, UK, November 14–16, 2019, Proceedings, Part I. Yin, H., Camacho, D., Tino, P., Tallón-Ballesteros, A. J., Menezes, R. & Allmendinger, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer International Publishing, p. 265 - 273 9 p. (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; vol. 11871)(Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11871).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Journal)
Victor Chang (Guest Editor), Mohamed Abdel-Basse (Guest Editor), Rahat Iqbal (Guest Editor) & Gary Wills (Guest Editor)
1 Apr 2020 → 1 Sep 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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MDPI (Publisher)
Victor Chang (Guest Editor) & Rahat Iqbal (Guest Editor)
20 Mar 2020 → 31 Oct 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Future Generation Computer Systems (Journal)
Zhihan Lv (Guest Editor), Rahat Iqbal (Guest Editor) & Victor Chang (Guest Editor)
1 Sep 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (Journal)
Rahat Iqbal (Guest Editor)
1 Jan 2010 → 1 Jan 2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Journal)
Rahat Iqbal (Guest Editor)
1 Jan 2010 → 1 Jan 2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity