{"id":528,"date":"2017-02-24T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.utu.fi\/fahfar\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:12:29","slug":"teaching-experiences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/fahfar\/teaching-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Academic\u00a0<\/strong><strong>p<\/strong><strong>ositions:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Present: <\/strong>Adjunct Professor,\u00a0Department of Computing<strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/\">University of Turku<\/a>,<\/strong> Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016-Sep.2020: <\/strong>Postdoctoral Researcher &amp; Senior Lecturer,\u00a0Department of Future Technologies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/\">University of Turku<\/a>, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<h1><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Jan.2019- April.2019<\/strong>:<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0 Visiting Researcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingston.ac.uk\">Kingston University<\/a>, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">London, UK.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>2016-2017:<\/strong>\u00a0 PoDoCo Researcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/quva.fi\">Quva Oy<\/a>, Tampere, Finland.<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>2012-2016: <\/strong>\u00a0Project Researcher &amp; Co-lecturer, Department of Information Technology,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/\">University of Turku<\/a>, Turku, Finland.<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Sep.2015- Feb.2015: <\/strong>\u00a0Visiting Researcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.bham.ac.u\">University of Birmingham<\/a>, School of Computer Science, Birmingham, UK.<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>2011-2012: <\/strong>\u00a0Visiting Researcher, Department of Information Technology,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/\">University of Turku<\/a>, Turku, Finland.<\/h1>\n<h1><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">2008-2011<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">:\u00a0 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Tiran &amp; University of Dolatabad, Esfahan, Iran.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Journal Editorial Board:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/deep_learning_computer_rs_II\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing III<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">&#8220;<\/a>,\u00a0Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30<b> Feburary 2024<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/11042\/updates\/25489324\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">&#8220;<\/a>, Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/11042\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-category=\"journal header\" data-track-action=\"click journal title\">Multimedia Tools and Applications<\/a>\u00a0Springer,\u00a0Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31<b>\u00a0October 2023<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/deep_learning_computer_rs_II\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing II<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">&#8220;<\/a>,\u00a0Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30<b>\u00a0January\u00a02023<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board of Remote Sensing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Guest Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/application_multi-sensor_fusion_technology_target_detection_recognition\">&#8220;Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology in Target Detection and Recognition&#8221;<\/a>, Deadline for manuscript submissions: <b>31 January 2021.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">&#8220;Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology in Remote Sensing: Datasets, Algorithms and Applications&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0Deadline for manuscript submissions: <b>31 December 2021<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Editor of the Special Issue on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/deep_learning_computer_vision_remote_sensing\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">&#8220;<\/a>,\u00a0Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30<b>\u00a0November\u00a02021<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Guest Editor of the Special Issue on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/Multi-Sensor_Fusion_Technology_Remote_Sensing\">Microtopography in Geomorphology, Forest Sciences and Biomass Categorization<\/a>&#8220;, <span class=\"si-deadline\">Deadline for manuscript submissions: <b>31 December 2021<\/b><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tutorial and Workshop Organisation:<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h1><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tutorial of &#8220;Deep Learning\u00a0<span id=\"0.4968277785209505\" class=\"highlight\">for<\/span>\u00a0Multimodal Data\u00a0<span id=\"0.3148278878887456\" class=\"highlight\">Fusion<\/span>:\u00a0Theory and Practice<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;<\/span>, 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (Fusion2024).<\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tutorial of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rose2023.ieee-ims.org\/tutorials\">Deep Learning for Sensor Fusion<\/a>&#8221; ,\u00a0 \u00a0IEEE ROSE 2023 symposium series.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tutorial of &#8220;<a class=\"a-tag inline\" href=\"https:\/\/fusion2023.org\/files\/Tutorial_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep Learning for Multispectral, Multiresolution and Multisensor Data Fusion<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;<\/span>,\u00a026TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (Fusion2023).<\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tutorial of &#8220;<\/span>Deep Learning for Data Fusion<span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;<\/span>,\u00a0IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (<a href=\"https:\/\/dsaa2021.dcc.fc.up.pt\">DSAA\u20192021<\/a>).<\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Third International Workshop &#8220;Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving&#8221;,\u00a0IEEE 26rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-itsc2021.org\">ITSC<\/a>), 2023.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Second\u00a0International Workshop &#8220;Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving&#8221;,\u00a0IEEE 24rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-itsc2021.org\">ITSC<\/a>), 2021.<\/li>\n<li>The First International Workshop &#8220;Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving&#8221;,\u00a0IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-itsc2020.org\">ITSC<\/a>), 2020<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tutorial of &#8220;Deep Convolutional Neural Networked-based Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision:Opportunities and Challenges&#8221;, The 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusion2020.org\/call-for-tutorials\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fusion<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">), 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technical Program Committee and general chair:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Program Committee Co-Chair in <a name=\"_Hlk139011504\"><\/a>International Symposium on Intelligent Technology for Future Transportation (ITFT2025),London, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Technical Committee member of 27th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Program Committee Co-Chair in <a name=\"_Hlk139011504\"><\/a>International Symposium on Intelligent Technology for Future Transportation (ITFT2024),Helsinki, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>16th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication System (ICSPCS),2023.<\/li>\n<li>The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA),2023.<\/li>\n<li>25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC),2022.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-US\">IEEE the 5th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-US\">CCET),2022<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>The 3rd\u00a0International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DBB),2022.<\/li>\n<li>15th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (<span id=\"0.4101275684530419\" class=\"highlight\">ICSPCS), 2021<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>IEEE the 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology,2021<\/li>\n<li>19th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2020.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Big Data and Blockchain (<a href=\"https:\/\/acsty2020.org\/bdab\/index.html\">BDAB<\/a>), 2020.<\/li>\n<li>22nd International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icact.org\/\">ICACT<\/a>), 2020.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Emerging Applications (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ficloud.org\/deep-ml-2019\/\">Deep-ML<\/a>), 2019.<\/li>\n<li>18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmla-conference.org\/icmla19\">ICMLA<\/a>), 2019.<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (<a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.computer.org\/cloud\/2019\/\">IEEE CLOUD<\/a>), 2017-2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.whioce.com\/index.php\/bdci\">Journal of Big Data and Cloud Innovation<\/a>, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmla-conference.org\/icmla19\">ICMLA<\/a>), 2018<\/li>\n<li>IEEE World Congress on Services (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.servicescongress.org\/2017\/\">IEEE SERVICES<\/a>), 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Wireless Communication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eewc2017.com\/\">(EEWC<\/a>), 2017.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Computer, Electronics and Communication Engineering (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cece2017.org\/\">CECE),<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2nd National Electrical Engineering Conference (NEEC), 2010.<\/li>\n<li>14th computer society of Iran conference (CSICC), 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Regular Journal Reviewer:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal Agriculture (MDPI)<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Information Fusion<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Remote Sensing<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Sensors<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Intelligent Systems<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)<\/li>\n<li>International Journal of Communication Systems<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Computer Networks<\/li>\n<li>ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Computers and Information Technology<\/li>\n<li>Journal of ICT Research and Applications<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC)<\/li>\n<li>Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHPSA)<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE)<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO)<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Supercomputing<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Computing<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Cloud Computing<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Software: Practice and Experience<\/li>\n<li>Big Data and Cloud Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Journal of King Saud University &#8211; Computer and Information Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Journal of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics<\/li>\n<li>Journal of sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conference Reviewer:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>IEEE 26rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-itsc2021.org\">ITSC<\/a>), 2023.<\/li>\n<li>26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),2022<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">IEEE 24rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li>26th IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing,2021<\/li>\n<li>IEEE the 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology,2021<\/li>\n<li>IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2020<\/li>\n<li>IEEE 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, 2020<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology (ICACT), 2020<\/li>\n<li>18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2019<\/li>\n<li>14th computer society of Iran conference (CSICC), 2009<\/li>\n<li>2nd National Electrical Engineering Conference (NEEC), 2010<\/li>\n<li>IEEE GLOBECOM, 2014<\/li>\n<li>European conference on artificial intelligence (ECAI), 2014<\/li>\n<li>17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2018<\/li>\n<li>IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering Technology (CCET 2018)<\/li>\n<li>The International Conference on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Emerging Applications (DEEP-ML 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Invited Talks:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Turku-ai\/events\/266643477\/\">AI Turku meetup<\/a>, &#8220;Maritime Situational Awareness through Multi-sensor Fusion\u201d, Turku, Finland, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Turku-ai\/events\/266643477\/\">AI Turku meetup<\/a>, \u201cMaritime Situational Awareness through Multi-sensor Fusion\u201d, Turku, Finland, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee-itsc2020.org\">ITSC Workshop<\/a>, &#8220;Deep Learning based Multi-sensor Fusion for Autonomous Ships&#8221;, 2020. Greece.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delta-network.fi\/\">Delta Workshop<\/a>, \u201cObject detection, classification and tracking in autonomous vehicles\u201d, Nov15-16, Finland, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.utu.fi\/tekoalyakatemia\/koulutus\/ai-business-academy\/\">AI Business Academy (AIBA) workshop<\/a>, \u201cApplications of Deep Learning\u201d, University of Turku, Finland, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Turku-ai\/events\/266643477\/\">AI Turku meetup<\/a>, \u201cObject detection using a CNN in a maritime environment\u201d, Turku, Finland, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International Courses and Events:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Three days training of for deep learning applications organized by Center for Scientific Computing (CSC), Helsinki, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>One-week intensive training program on Cloud Computing by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT ICT Labs), Helsinki, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Two -week intensive training program of 10th LASER Summer School on Software Engineering , Sep. 2013.<\/li>\n<li>One-week Nano-Tera\/Artist International Summer School on Embedded System Design, Sep.2012.<\/li>\n<li>Attended in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abo.fi\/fi\/tapahtuma\/wids-turku-women-in-data-science-day\/\">Women\u00a0in Data Science Event<\/a>, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Attended in <a href=\"https:\/\/womenintech.fi\/week-forum-2019\/\">Women in Tech Forum<\/a>, 2018- 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Attended in <a href=\"https:\/\/theshift.fi\/what-is-shift\/\">SHIFT Business Festival<\/a>, 2018-2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"evaluation-committees\">Evaluation Committees:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Master thesis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Phd thesis committee member, Technical faculty of Lund University, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Professional membership in:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Member of University-Industry Innovation Network (UIIN), 2021<\/li>\n<li>Finnish Union of University Teachers and Researchers 01\/2012 \u2013present<\/li>\n<li>Member IEEE, 2012 \u2013 present<\/li>\n<li>Member the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE-ITSS), IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing, 2018-present<\/li>\n<li>Member- Cloud Computing Community, International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF), 2018-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic\u00a0positions: Present: Adjunct Professor,\u00a0Department of Computing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 2016-Sep.2020: Postdoctoral Researcher &amp; Senior Lecturer,\u00a0Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 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