Overview
Shadan Khan Khattak joined the Cardiff School of Technologies as a Senior Lecturer in November 2020. His specialization is in Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing. Before joining Cardiff Met, he worked as an Assistant Professor in King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, from 2014 to 2017. From 2017 to 2018, Shadan worked as an R&D Engineer at Panasonic R&D Centre Singapore. Shadan’s research interests are in image and video communication. He has several publications in reputed peer-reviewed journals and conferences in these areas including the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Signal Processing: Image Communication, and the Picture Coding Symposium. He is a member of IEEE and is a reviewer for several reputed peer-reviewed journals.
Research Publications
An Extreme Learning Machine and Modified Local Binary Pattern Based Framework for Image Classification
Al Amoudi, S. A., Bugshan, A. S., Asiri, M., Alzubi, S., Al Shammari, S. F. & Khattak, S. K., 9 Apr 2026, International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Energy Technologies, ICECET 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
IMIT: Improved Multilevel Inverter Topology with Reduced Number of Components and Low Total Harmonic Distortion
Ahmad, S., Ashraf, M., Zafar, M. H. & Khattak, S. K., 9 Apr 2026, International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Energy Technologies, ICECET 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Sophisticated Ensemble Deep Learning Approaches for Multilabel Retinal Disease Classification in Medical Imaging
Amir, A., Jan, T., Zafar, M. H. & Khattak, S. K., 9 Apr 2025, In: CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. 10, 4, p. 1159-1173 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Privacy and Security Landscape of Metaverse
Bentotahewa, V., Hewage, C., Khattak, S. K., Sengar, S. & Jenkins, P., 1 Feb 2024, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems: Contributions Presented at the 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2023), September 6–8, 2023, Birmingham, UK. Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Grace, P., Yang, L. & Prajapat, S. (eds.). Springer Nature, p. 403–417 15 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ; vol. 1453).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Multimedia Privacy and Security Landscape in the Wake of AI/ML
Hewage, C. T. E. R., Khattak, S. K., Ahmad, A., Mallikarachchi, T., Ukwandu, E. & Bentotahewa, V., 1 Jan 2022, Social Media Analytics, Strategies and Governance. CRC Press, p. 203-228 26 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
FracTCAM: Fracturable LUTRAM-Based TCAM Emulation on Xilinx FPGAs
Zahir, A., Khattak, S. K., Ullah, A., Reviriego, P., Muslim, F. B. & Ahmad, W., 8 Oct 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 28, 12, p. 2726-2730 5 p., 9217507.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sensor Fusion for Identification of Freezing of Gait Episodes Using Wi-Fi and Radar Imaging
Shah, S. A., Tahir, A., Ahmad, J., Zahid, A., Pervaiz, H., Shah, S. Y., Abdulhadi Ashleibta, A. M., Hasanali, A., Khattak, S. & Abbasi, Q. H., 24 Jun 2020, In: IEEE Sensors Journal. 20, 23, p. 14410-14422 13 p., 9123933.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Isolation design flow effectiveness evaluation methodology for zynq SoCs
Malik, A. A., Ullah, A., Zahir, A., Qamar, A., Khattak, S. K. & Reviriego, P., 15 May 2020, In: Electronics (Switzerland). 9, 5, 814.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Robust Face Recognition Method for Occluded and Low-Resolution Images
Ullah, H., Haq, M. U., Khattak, S., Khan, G. Z. & Mahmood, Z., 3 Oct 2019, 2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics, ICAEM 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 86-91 6 p. 8853753. (2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics, ICAEM 2019 - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
A Robust Method to Locate License Plates under Diverse Conditions
Awan, S. M., Khattak, S., Khan, G. Z. & Mahmood, Z., 3 Oct 2019, 2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics, ICAEM 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 92-98 7 p. 8853773. (2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics, ICAEM 2019 - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review