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Dr Ammar Belatreche

Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

Ammar BelatrecheDr. Ammar Belatreche received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Ulster University, UK. He joined Northumbria University in May 2016. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Programme Leader for the MSc Advanced Computer Science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Visual Computing (CIVC) research group. Previously he worked as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC), Ulster University, then as a Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Derry, UK.

He has extensive experience across academic and R&D in the areas of bio-inspired intelligent systems, machine learning, face detection and recognition, structured and unstructured data analytics, capital markets engineering, image processing and understanding. He has led a number of research and consultancy projects and has successfully supervised/co-supervised  8 PhD students to completion. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing and has served as a Program Committee Member and a reviewer for several international conferences and journals.

 

Campus Address

CIS 305
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • QP-SNN: Quantized and Pruned Spiking Neural Networks, Wei, W., Zhou, Z., Belatreche, A., Shan, Y., Liang, Y., Cao, H., Zhang, J., Zhang, M., Yang, Y. 22 Jan 2025, The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • Spiking Vision Transformer with Saccadic Attention, Wang, S., Zhang, D., Belatreche, A., Xiao, Y., Liang, Y., Shan, Y., Sun, Q., Zhang, E., Zhang, M. 22 Jan 2025, The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • A Framework for Analyzing Motion Vector Entropy in H.265 Encoded Videos, Bouzegza, M., Belatreche, A. 13 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding, Easom - McCaldin, P., Bouridane, A., Belatreche, A., Jiang, R., Almaadeed, S. 1 Feb 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • OHON4D: optimised histogram of 4D normals for human behaviour recognition in depth sequences, Bouzegza, M., Belatreche, A., Bouridane, A., Elarbi-Boudihir, M. 26 Jul 2024, In: International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics
  • Q-SNNs: Quantized Spiking Neural Networks, Wei, W., Liang, Y., Belatreche, A., Xiao, Y., Cao, H., Ren, Z., Wang, G., Zhang, M., Yang, Y. 28 Oct 2024, 32nd ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2024), 28 October - 1 November 2024, Melbourne, Australia , ACM
  • Spike-based Neuromorphic Model for Sound Source Localization, Zhang, D., Wang, S., Belatreche, A., Wei, W., Xiao, Y., Zheng, H., Zhou, Z., Zhang, M., Yang, Y. 25 Sep 2024, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), San Diego, US, Neural information processing systems foundation
  • Stock Price Manipulation Detection using Spiking Neural Networks, Belatreche, A., Ada-Ibrama, O., Rizvi, B. 30 Jun 2024, 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings, Piscataway, US, IEEE
  • Stock Price Manipulation Detection using Variational Autoencoder and Recurrence Plots, Safa, K., Belatreche, A., Ouadfel, S. 30 Jun 2024, 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings, Piscataway, US, IEEE
  • Towards Accurate Binary Spiking Neural Networks: Learning with Adaptive Gradient Modulation Mechanism, Lang, Y., Wei, W., Belatreche, A., Cao, H., Zhou, Z., Wang, S., Zhang, M., Yang, Y. 10 Dec 2024, Proceedings of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, USA, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

  • Computing Science PhD June 30 2007
  • Member Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) 2012
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2010
  • Member Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2009


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