From doctoral research in computer vision and deep learning to industry AI and a faculty role focused on research, teaching and student mentorship.
Dr. Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SRM University–AP. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, where his research focused on computer vision and deep learning.
His research spans affective computing, image enhancement, trustworthy artificial intelligence, multimodal learning, natural language processing and theoretical machine learning, with an emphasis on translating methodological advances into practical real-world systems. His work has appeared in venues including AAAI, ICPR, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society and Cognitive Computation.
Alongside research, he is actively involved in undergraduate teaching and mentoring students in research-oriented projects, guiding them through problem formulation, literature review, experimental design, implementation, reproducibility and technical communication.
Teaching undergraduate courses, mentoring student researchers, contributing to course planning and assessment design, and developing a research program in intelligent, equitable and practical AI systems.
Led AI engineers in the design and prototyping of machine learning solutions for process optimization in mutual fund and fintech workflows, contributing to technical oversight and strategic AI planning.
Served across Machine Learning, Data Structures & Algorithms and Principles of Programming Languages through laboratory instruction, tutorials, mentoring and assessment.
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Research area: Computer Vision and Deep Learning. Doctoral work included facial emotion recognition under low-resolution and real-world conditions.
Jamia Hamdard
CGPA: 8.43. Undergraduate project work included a facial recognition-based attendance system.
