Nafees Ahmad

I am currently a PhD student in the deparment of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) , working under the esteemed guidance of Prof.Ho-fung Leung and Prof.Farzan Farnia . My research is centered on developing machine learning-driven solutions for sensor-based personal health applications.

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Publications

HyperHAR: Inter-sensing Device Bilateral Correlations and Hyper-correlations
Learning Approach for Wearable Sensing Device Based Human Activity Recognition

Nafees Ahmad, Ho-fung Leung

[IMWUT/UbiComp 2024 ] In the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile,
Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

[ paper]

ALAE-TAE-CutMix+ : Beyond the State-of-the-Art for Human Activity Recognition Using
Wearable Sensors

Nafees Ahmad, Ho-fung Leung

[PerCom 2023 ] In the 21st International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications (Acceptance ratio: 27/159=17%)

[ paper]

Beyond the Gates of Euclidean Space: Temporal Discrimination - Fusions and
Attention-based Graph Neural Network for Human Activity Recognition

Nafees Ahmad, Savio Ho-Chit Chow, Ho-fung Leung

[ paper]

SARM: Salah Activities Recognition Model Based on Smartphone

Nafees Ahmad, Lansheng Han, Khalid Iqbal, Rashid Ahmad, Muhammad Adil Abid,
and Naeem Iqbal

In the MDPI Electronics

[ paper]

Zone Based Lossy Image Compression Using Discrete Wavelet and Discrete Cosine
Transformations

Nafees Ahmad, Khalid Iqbal, Lansheng Han, Naeem Iqbal, and Muhammad Adil Abid

[SPNCE 2019 ] In the Second EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy
in New Computing Environments

[ paper]





Achievements and Awards

  • Awarded a fully funded scholarship for PhD studies by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Awarded a fully funded scholarship for Master's studies by the Chinese Government Scholarship Council, China.
  • Awarded a fully funded scholarship for Bachelor's studies by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
  • Selected to participate in numerous quiz competitions during my Bachelor's degree, including NASCON '15 at FAST University Islamabad, TECHNO MOTE’15 at CIIT Abbottabad, VISIO SPARK at CIIT Wah, and Excel TeCUP’14 at MAJU University Islamabad.
  • Served as a member of the Ushers team during convocations at COMSATS University Islamabad.


  • Teaching Experience

      Teaching Assistant

    • ENGG1110F: Problem Solving by Programming, 2020 Fall, CUHK
    • CSCI1020: Hands-on Introduction to C++, 2020 Spring, CUHK
    • CSCI4160: Distributed and Parallel Computing, 2021 Spring, CUHK
    • CSCI3170: Introduction to Database Systems, 2022 Fall/ 2022 Spring, CUHK

    Modified from Jon Barron