Dr Ali Alameer
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
Biography
Ali Alameer is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Salford, elected member of the University Senate, holding a Ph.D. in AI from Newcastle University.
Areas of Research
My research intersects applied AI—specifically LLMs and machine vision—and ethics to develop robust systems capable of solving complex, real-world problems across diverse industries.
Research Grants & External Funding
- Innovate UK (Smart Grant): Developing ethical large language models with the insurance industry (Co-I) – £502,642 (2024 - 2025)
- Innovate UK (KTP): LLM-based solutions for motor insurance with Whichrate Ltd (PI) – £410,556.21 (2026 - 2028)
- Innovate UK (KTP): AI (Machine Vision and LLM) Digital Surveyor Tool with Corelain Ltd (Co-I) – £392,580.44 (2025 - 2027)
- North West Regional Funds: Investigating AI fairness, bias, and digital community resilience (Co-I) – £135,619 (2023 - 2024)
- British Council: Machine Vision for Sustainable Dairy Farming (Co-I) – £80,000 (2026)
- Evidential Ltd: Bias and Fairness Evaluation of ASR Models (Consultancy) – £37,728 (2024- 2025)
- World Privilege Ltd: Personalised AI Recommendation Engine (Consultancy) – £19,743 (2025)
- AI Specialist Training (Consultancy) – £16,000 (2024)
- Innovate UK (ICURe): Ethical AI Auditing Tool (Entrepreneurial Lead) – £2,500 (2025)
Areas of Supervision
At present, I am supervising the following PhD students, Research Assistants, and a KTP Associate. Feel free to contact them for information about the supervision process or any other informal inquiries:
KTP Associate:
Zeeshan Afzal - Z.Afzal2@edu.salford.ac.uk - Developing a Digital Surveying Tool.
PhD Students:
1. Elham Albaroudi - e.o.albaroudi@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD topic in AI fairness
2. Gbadegesin Taiwo - g.a.taiwo@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD topic in machine vision for detecting advanced pig behaviors
3. Kumail Abbas – k.abbas6@edu.salford.ac.uk - PhD project in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and the University of Bristol, UK, focusing on machine vision for detecting cow behaviours.
4. Ali Jamali - A.Jamali1@edu.salford.ac.uk - MPhil topic in AI based recomendation systems.
RAs:
Ali Jamali – A.Jamali1@edu.salford.ac.uk
– Developing recommendation systems for an industrial collaborator in Manchester (Ongoing)
Manzar Malik – m.i.malik2@salford.ac.uk
– Developing Ethical LLMs (Project completed)
Zeeshan Afzal – Z.Afzal2@edu.salford.ac.uk
– Developing ASR models for legal settings (Project completed)
Hamid Kouhpeimay Jahromi – KouhpeimayJahromi1@salford.ac.uk
– Developing ethical transcribing models for legal settings (Project completed)
Ali Alameer provides full academic leadership (100%) for two modules in the MSc in AI programme. He designed and developed the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing modules.
To support student engagement, a GitHub repository for both modules has been created, enabling collaborative work and the application of state-of-the-art methods in the field. The repositories are provided below:
https://github.com/Ali-Alameer/Deep-Learning
https://github.com/Ali-Alameer/NLP
Recognitions
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ASR Models in legal settings