Mohamed Moustafa

Mohammed Moustafa comes from Alexandria, Egypt where he attended the earlier half of his education before moving to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to complete his second-level education. I then moved to Galway, Ireland where he received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science and Information Technology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, graduating with first-class honours in 2021. During his undergraduate studies, he was awarded the University Scholar title three years in a row by the university. 

He is currently a first year Electrical and Electronics Engineering Ph.D. student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is enrolled as part of his employment-based postgraduate programme jointly funded by the Irish Research Council and the Xperi Corporation, where he is currently employed. His research interests include computer vision, deep learning, embedded systems, edge-AI, and their applications for health monitoring. 

Research Activities

2019: Investigation of fake news classification and the collection of a dataset suitable for this NLP task.
2020: Worked on synthetic data creation using thermal 3D models. Other research activities involved investigating non-invasive health driver monitoring.
2021: My undergraduate final year project was a research-oriented investigation into using low resolution thermal imaging to monitor health metrics, which drew upon my past experiences and industry sponsorship.
2021-2025: Currently pursuing a PhD in electrical and electronics engineering at NUI, Galway. My proposal concerns the monitoring of the well-being of remote workers using deep learning and multi-modal computer vision.

Journal Publications

Co-authored “A Review of Benchmark Datasets and Training Loss Functions in Neural Depth Estimation” journal paper for IEEE Access.

Regular Conference Publications

Co-authored “Veritas annotator: Discovering the origin of a rumour” conference paper for FEVER 2019 and co-authored “Synthetic Thermal Image Generation for Human-Machine Interaction in Vehicles” conference paper for QoMEX 2020.

Conference Participation & Presentations

2021: Presented my final year bachelor's project “An investigation of breathing rate monitoring using low-resolution thermal infrared imaging” at the Third IEEE UK&I YP Postgrad STEM Research Symposium