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Postdoctoral Researcher · DTU Compute

Chaudhary Muhammad
Aqdus Ilyas

Eye-Tracking · Cognitive Neuroscience · Affective Computing · HRI

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), working on the Reading the Reader project (Novo Nordisk Foundation), with Assoc. Prof. Per Bækgaard. Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at the AFAR Lab, University of Cambridge.

Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas
Current Work

Research Focus

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Eye-Tracking & Pupillometry

Tobii eye-trackers, Task-Evoked Pupillary Responses (TEPR), fixation dynamics, and full preprocessing pipelines for reading research.

TEPRTobiiGCA
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TVA Parameter Estimation

Bundesen's Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) to model visual cognition during reading; per-participant Bayesian MCMC estimation in PyMC.

TVAPyMCBayesian
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Font Legibility & Psychophysics

How font families and styles modulate reading performance through word superiority effects and Bayesian posterior distributions.

TypographyPsychophysics
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Affective Computing & HRI

Facial emotion recognition for socially intelligent robots; dimensional valence/arousal modelling for workplace wellbeing (WorkingAge, Cambridge).

FERHRIAffective AI
Scholarship

Selected Publications

ACM ETRA 2025

Jensen, H.E., Ilyas, C.M.A., Tashk, A., Cooreman, B., Beier, S. & Bækgaard, P.

ACM ETRA 2025

Ilyas, C.M.A., Noor, S.-E., Tashk, A., Cooreman, B., Beier, S. & Bækgaard, P.

IEEE ICCCMLA 2025

Tashk, A., Ilyas, C.M.A., Cooreman, B., Beier, S. & Bækgaard, P.

Full list with abstracts → aqdus01.github.io/publications/

Career

Experience & Education

2023 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark · Copenhagen

Reading the Reader project (Novo Nordisk Foundation, NF22OC0076877). Eye-tracking, Bayesian modelling, and adaptive AI reading interfaces.

2021 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher

WorkingAge project (EU Horizon 2020, grant 826232). Affective computing and facial analysis for workplace wellbeing.

2017 – 2021
PhD in Computer Science
Aalborg University · Denmark

Facial Emotion Recognition for Citizens with TBI for Therapeutic Robot Interaction. VAP & HRI Labs.

2015 – 2016
MSc · Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Global Leadership Certificate (GLC).

Connect

Contact & Profiles

Email cmuai@dtu.dk

Office DTU Compute · Cognitive Systems Section
Richard Petersens Plads
2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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