Hemin Omer Latif

Assistant Professor
Department of Computing and Informatics
  • Ph.D. NottinghamTrent University 
    Graduate Diploma, Nottingham Trent International College
    B.S. University of Sulaimani
    B.S. University of Salahaddin - Hawler
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Office: B-F2-03

Profile

Dr. Latif holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering, a B.S. in Computing and Statistics, a Graduate Diploma in Computing and Informatics, and a Ph.D. in Interactive Systems and Robotics from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in the United Kingdom. He has worked as an IT faculty member and Department Chair in the Department of Information Technology at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). He is currently a full-time Assistant Professor of Information Technology at AUIS.

He has worked as an IT specialist in the United Nations World Health Organization (UN WHO), a mobile product engineer for Huawei Technologies Ltd., and a research assistant at the Center for Innovation and Technology Exploitation (CITE) in the UK. He has submitted and presented a number of scientific articles in journals and conferences around the world.

In addition to his formal duties, he has supervised numerous capstone projects of IT students, including winning projects of the City Award of Sulaimani and featured projects on multiple TV programs. He has also mentored and led a number of student teams to participate in different activities and competitions, including the top winning teams in the local competition of Microsoft ImagineCup for 2012.
His research interests and teaching expertise include Applied AI & Data Science, Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship, Creative Coding & Computing, Interaction & Experience Design, and Physical Computing & Robotics. 

Dr. Latif is also known as a Kurdish poet, with published poetry booklets, live poetry readings in Kurdish and English, and many lyrics for well-known Kurdish songs. He has led many events and given public speeches, in three languages, including all Graduation Commencement Ceremonies of the University so far. He has had many TV interviews on the topics of Robotics, IT, Social Networking, Education, and Creativity.

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Publications

  • Pioneering University Roles: AUIS Leads the Charge for University Engagement in Iraq’s Entrepreneurial Evolution. Online article on Kapita (Issue 12). Published in 2023
  • Doing Less; Excelling More. A Guide to Personal and Global Wellbeing. Business LANDSCAPE magazine by Kapita (Issue 11). Published in 2023.
  • Hawar H. Yaba and Hemin O. Latif, "Plate Number Recognition based on Hybrid Techniques", UHD Journal of Science and Technology 6 (2), 39-48, 2022
  • Hemin Omer Latif, "Friendship Trust in Online Social Networks (متمانەی هاوڕێیەتی لەتۆڕە کۆمەڵایەتییە تازەکاندا)", Online article on Xendan.org in Kurdish. Published on July 12, 2013.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, "The Success of the Education System of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani: Part One (سەرکەوتوویی سیستەمی خوێندن لە زانکۆی ئەمریکی:بەشی دووەم)", Online article on Xendan.org in Kurdish. Published on May 22, 2013.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, "The Success of the Education System of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani: Part One (سەرکەوتوویی سیستەمی خوێندن لە زانکۆی ئەمریکی:بەشی یەکەم)", Online Article on Xendan.org in Kurdish. Published on May 22, 2013. Last Accessed on July 22, 2013.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, Nasser Sherkat and Ahmad Lotfi, "Teleoperation through Eye Gaze (TeleGaze): A Multimodal Approach", IEEE International Coference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO '09), December 19-23, 2009, pp. 711-716.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, Nasser Sherkat and Ahmad Lotfi, "Information Acquisition Using Eye-Gaze Tracking for Person-Following with Mobile Robots", International Journal of Information Acquisition, Vol. 6(3), 2009, pp. 147-157.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, Nasser Sherkat and Ahmad Lotfi, "Fusion of Automation and Teleoperation for Person-Following with Mobile Robots", Proceedings of IEEE International Conferece on Information and Automation (ICIA '09), 2009, pp. 1240-5
  • Hemin Omer Latif, Nasser Sherkat and Ahmad Lotfi, "TeleGaze: Teleoperation through Eye Gaze", Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems (CIS '08), 2008, pp. 6.
  • Hemin Omer Latif, Nasser Sherkat and Ahmad Lotfi, "Remote Control of Mobile Robots through Human Eye Gaze: The Design and Evaluation of an Interface", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks V, 2008, pp. 71120x-9.