Meet the group
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ajaz Ahmad Bhat
Dr. Ajaz leads research in cognitive robotics, AI, and brain-inspired computing systems. His work focuses on developing intelligent robots that can learn, reason, and adapt like biological systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Robotics at the Faculty of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, and a visiting researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. Prior to this posting, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, UK, and then as an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, Netherlands. He has been involved in multiple international research projects such as EU’s FP7 DARWIN and NIH’s WOLVES. Ajaz retains memberships of both IEEE and APS societies in addition to holding a Ph.D. in Cognitive Robotics from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy.
PostGraduate Students
Haji Gul
Haji is pursuing research in knowledge graph completion and natural language processing.
Udaya Wijesena
Udaya's research focuses on machine learning applications to finance and stock price prediction.
Amirah Hamid
Amirah is pursuing research in machine learning applications to Alzheimer's disease and brain MRIs.
Taha Bhatti
Taha is working on ML models for longitudinal behavior modeling and virtue ethics.
Azryl Sarih
Azrly is working on desgin and analysis of growing (or self-expanding) neural networks.
Other Collaborators
Prof Larissa Samuelson
Prof. Larissa collaborates on projects related to developmental psychology and word learning.
Dr Bandan Chakrabortty
Dr. Bandan collaborates on projects related to AI applications for plant and animal development modelling.