Dr. Mehwish Tahir completed her PhD in Software Engineering from the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest in 2024, supported by the President’s Seed Fund Scholarship. Her doctoral research, “Privacy-by-Design Solutions for Visual Data Analytics in Large-Scale CCTV Systems”, focused on developing privacy-compliant solutions for CCTV video analytics in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR). Her work was particularly centered on the use of surveillance footage in road traffic accident scenarios within Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
Mehwish’s research integrated advanced technologies such as deep convolutional neural networks, encryption techniques, and blockchain frameworks to enable the secure storage, retrieval, and sharing of CCTV data. She also investigated practical applications for the admissibility of such footage in remote court proceedings. Her broader research interests encompass Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Video Summarization, Smart Cities and Privacy Preservation.
She is currently working as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Software Research Institute (SRI), with the COMAND Technology Gateway at the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland.
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