Hussein Al Osman

Full Professor

School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation

Software Engineering Software Project Management Human Computer Interaction Affective Computing Machine Learning Multimedia Systems Affective Computing Applied Artificial Intelligence Software Verification

Hussein Al Osman received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2014. He is a member of the Multimedia Computing and Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research Laboratories and leads the Multimedia Processing and Interaction Group. His research interests include the application of artificial intelligence to affective computing and biomedical engineering. In particular, he focuses on developing multimodal affect recognition methods using deep artificial neural networks to estimate facial expressions and speech sentiment. He studies remote physiological signal measurement using video signals and applies this technology to biomedical and human–computer interaction (HCI) applications. He also conducts research in HCI, particularly in developing serious games for physical rehabilitation and education. His research has been funded by public organizations (e.g., NSERC and NRC) and private collaborators, resulting in over 80 peer-reviewed articles, two patents, and several technology transfers to local and international companies.

Selected Publications

Socially aware synthetic data generation for suicidal ideation detection using large language models

Ghanadian, H., Nejadgholi, I., & Al Osman, H. — IEEE Access, Vol. 12, 14350–14363 , 2024
A virtual reality role-playing serious game for experiential learning

Alrehaili, E. A., & Al Osman, H. — Interactive Learning Environments, Vol. 30, No. 5, 922–935 , 2022
A graph neural network for EEG-based emotion recognition with contrastive learning and generative adversarial neural network data augmentation

Gilakjani, S. S., & Al Osman, H. — IEEE Access, Vol. 12, 113–130 , 2023
ECG authentication for mobile devices

Arteaga-Falconi, J. S., Al Osman, H., & El Saddik, A. — IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 65, No. 3, 591–600 , 2015
Affective haptics: Current research and future directions

Eid, M. A., & Al Osman, H. — IEEE Access, Vol. 4, 26–40 , 2015

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Selected Publications