Hello! I'm Dr Ahmed Zoha
I'm an academic, author, and scientist driven by curiosity to understand how intelligence can serve humanity. My work explores how AI can connect people, systems, and ideas — creating technologies that don't just think, but care.
Career Highlights
Senior Lecturer
(Associate Professor), University of Glasgow
Programme Director
Communication Engineering, Glasgow College UESTC
CSC Advisor
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
Royal Academy of Engineering
Endorsed UK Exceptional Talent
Senior Member
IEEE
Fellow
RSA
Distinguished Member
EAI (top 0.5%)
Teaching Excellence Award
University of Glasgow, 2026
Grant Reviewer
EPSRC, UKRI, HEC (Pakistan), Middle East (HBKU, UAEU, AU)
Academic Reviewer
20+ Q1 journals/IEEE transactions
Author of 2 Books
Associate Editor
Springer Nature Journal of Big Data
Director
FLAIR
Top 2%
Most-cited Scientist Worldwide
News & Updates
View all →Dr Basim Alhumaily Passes PhD Viva
FLAIR researcher Basim Alhumaily successfully defended his PhD (minor corrections), with work on AI and radar-based sensing for camera-free, contactless monitoring of human activity and vital signs — completed alongside his faculty role at Qassim University.
Dr Saja Al Ani Passes PhD Viva
Saja Al Ani successfully defended her PhD at the University of Glasgow, passing with minor corrections. Her research developed deep-learning models for ultrasound tongue imaging to support the clinical assessment of speech sound disorders.
VeriVoice-V1 Bilingual Speech Corpus Released
The MIMER project publicly released VeriVoice-V1, a bilingual Urdu-English speech corpus for deepfake detection and remote identity-verification research — the project first public dataset deliverable, developed with UET Taxila and industrial partner STech.ai.
MIMER Roundtable on Digital Identity, Deepfakes & Fraud
Organised and chaired a hybrid roundtable at the James Watt School of Engineering, bringing together industry, academia and policy experts to tackle digital identity, deepfakes and fraud in the age of generative AI — part of the EPSRC-funded UK-Pakistan MIMER collaboration.
Advance in Multilingual Voice Anti-Spoofing Research
MIMER project achieves major milestone with the acceptance of a significant MSS dataset paper at IEEE CBMI 2025 in Dublin. This first-of-its-kind multilingual spoofed speech dataset addresses critical challenges in deepfake detection and digital identity fraud.
Featured Projects
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MIMER — Mitigating Presentation Attacks in Remote Identity Proofing
Pakistan in Focus: Securing Digital Identity Through AI. Developing advanced biometric security solutions to combat presentation attacks.
LEAP — Learning Enhancement through Adaptive Personalisation
Innovate UK KTP developing Aruva, an AI platform for higher education with adaptive algorithms and real-time analytics.
Energy Conscious Network for Independent Living (COIL)
AI-driven energy monitoring for assisted living and net zero. 60+ nodes, COP26 showcase, demonstrated to Nokia, Vodafone & Huawei.
5G Scotland Centre Testbed Phase I/II
Co-investigator of the £1.6M Scotland 5G Centre testbed enabling immersive remote robotics-powered learning for students worldwide.
Impact & Outreach
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Transforming Dementia Care
Award-winning NHS-deployed AI system across 200+ homes supporting 650+ people. Featured in 20+ media outlets, cited in UK Parliament & EU policy.
5G for Sensor-Free Remote Care
A seminal work on 5G-enabled activity detection system. Published in Nature, 2 international patents, open dataset for global research.
AI Energy Monitoring for Net Zero
PECN live in a 2,000-occupant campus building, COP26 showcase, demonstrated to Nokia, Vodafone & Huawei. Contributed to Scotland 5G Centre Phase II.
Scotland's 5G Innovation Ecosystem
Co-Investigator for Scotland 5G Centre. Led workshops with 50+ industry representatives. Delivered £29M ROI, contributing to £17B GDP potential by 2035.
Research in Focus
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Federated Learning & Distributed Intelligence
Edge-native intelligence for 6G communications, secure smart grid systems, and robust distributed AI frameworks.
6G / 5G & Future Wireless Networks
AI-driven optimization of wireless networks, 5G/6G systems, intelligent spectrum management, and next-generation connectivity.
Healthcare AI & Multimodal Sensing
AI for dementia care, activity recognition, gait analysis, and 5G-enabled contactless health monitoring systems.
IoT, Energy & Industrial AI
Non-intrusive load monitoring, energy forecasting, digital twins for IoT optimization, and industrial automation.
Meet the Minds Behind
FLAIR
I'm fortunate to work with an incredible group of researchers exploring the frontiers of Federated Learning and Agentic Intelligence — the real heroes shaping the ideas, innovation, and impact behind our collective work.
Federated Learning & Agentic Intelligence
Research Group
