Dr Naveed Anwar

Assistant Professor

School: Computer Science

Dr Anwar is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for MSc Information Science (Data Analytics and Library Management) in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Northumbria University, UK. He received his PhD in Computing (Data Mining) from University of Sunderland, UK. He has done his MSc and BSc in Computer Science from University of Karachi, Pakistan. He has been working in academia for the last many years at different national and overseas universities. He had been a Research Ethics Lead / Deputy Lead for the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at Northumbria University. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and also a member of FHEA applications’ review committee at Northumbria University. Before joining the Northumbria University, he worked at The Open University, UK as a Research Fellow. He had also worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at University of Sunderland, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) and The Open University Business School, UK. Previously, he was also a full-time Lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is also an external examiner at various universities.

Dr Anwar combined his knowledge and research in data mining in the form of a book based on medical data. He has published his research work in many international conferences’ proceedings and journals. Previously he had obtained grants as a Principal Investigator from SAMS (Society for the Advancement of Management Studies), UKCES (UK Commission for Employment Skills) and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), UK, and as a Co-investigator from Research Beacon, University of Sunderland, UK. He is a Member of the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) UK Peer Review College to review reports and bids/proposals for their schemes and programmes. He has also reviewed many national and international bids. He supervises PhD students, and has chaired and examined many PhD students. He is also a reviewer for many international journals and has been a Technical Programme Committee member for many international conferences.

Dr Anwar is involved in quantitative and qualitative research. His research interest includes qualitative and quantitative data analysis, big data analysis, data mining, business intelligence, digital methods and machine learning, health informatics, intelligent hybrid systems (using a combination of machine learning techniques), information systems, decision support systems, international businesses/entrepreneurship, online businesses/entrepreneurship, online home-based businesses, entrepreneurial marketing, and digital social media. He is open for discussion for research with prospective self-funded postgraduate researchers (MPhil/PhD and Visiting Scholars) or businesses/companies/organisations who are interested in above areas. He can be found at various social media as given below:

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Campus Address

Room 121, Ellison Building, Block B,
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Email Naveed

@naveed_anwar

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Counterfeited product prevention with blockchain technology enabled e-commerce platform - an initial investigation from experts, Li, H., Anwar, N., Bian, X., Brown, E. 15 Feb 2026, AMA Winter Academic Conference 2026
Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing through Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing, Naveed, N., Anwar, N., Armstrong, M., Mehrabi, H. 2 Oct 2025, 10th European Congress on 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing, Valencia, Spain, Coalesce Research Group
Enhancing Sustainability and Functionality with Recycled Materials in Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing, Naveed, N., Anwar, N., Armstrong, M., Ahmad, F., Haq, M., Ridley, G. 3 Jul 2025, In: Sustainability
Pose-invariant Facial Expression Recognition Based on MOEO Algorithm and LBP, Kollonoor Babu, E., Mistry, K., Anwar, N., Zhang, L. 8 Jan 2025, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Affectivefusionnet: A Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Combination of Visual Transformers and Variational Autoencoders, Kollonoor Babu, E., Mistry, K., Anwar, N., Zhang, L. 23 Sep 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Optimising 3D Printing Parameters through Experimental Techniques and ANOVA-Based Statistical Analysis, Naveed, N., Anwar, N. 1 Apr 2024, In: SPE Polymers
Sustainable Manufacturing through Digital Multi-Material 3D Printing, Naveed, N., Anwar, M. 28 Aug 2024, 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Piscataway, US, IEEE
Timing of development of osteoradionecrosis post head and neck radiotherapy: does a safe time interval exist for dental extraction?, Kovarik, P., Cvek, J., Patil, R., Macdougall, C., Kelly, C., Jackson, M., McKenzie, L., West, N., Willis, N., Kovarik, J., Anwar, M., Ellabban, I., Shahid Iqbal, M. 1 Oct 2024, In: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
Education in Emergencies, Mental Wellbeing and E-Learning, Shohel, M., Mahmud, A., Urmee, M., Anwar, M., Rahman, M., Acharya, D., MAshrafuzzaman, M. 18 May 2022, E-Learning and Digital Education in the Twenty-First Century, London, IntechOpen
Facial Feature Extraction Using a Symmetric Inline Ma-trix-LBP Variant for Emotion Recognition, Kollonoor Babu, E., Mistry, K., Anwar, N., Zhang, L. 9 Nov 2022, In: Sensors

PGR Supervision

Mohammed Aldhaheri Balancing Innovation and Ethics: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement in theUAE Start Date: 01/03/2025 End Date: 30/10/2025
Abubakar Mairiga Tinnitus Management and Support – A Mixed Methods Study Start Date: 27/05/2022

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