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Omar Anwar is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), at the University of Western Australia. He holds a BS degree in Electronic Engineering from Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, which he obtained in 2007, and an MS degree in Embedded Systems Engineering from the University of Leeds, which he completed in 2009. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, he worked as an academic and researcher at several universities. Omar's research interests are primarily focused on Machine Learning, Low Power Computing, and Wireless Sensor Networks. During his Ph.D., he worked extensively on developing an innovative, low-power, low-cost, and long-range smart system for remote beehive health monitoring in Australia. He also developed the world's first machine-learning model for beehive weight estimation, which has been widely praised by the beekeeping community. Currently, Omar is associated with the Data Intensive Astronomy (DIA) group at ICRAR, where he is primarily engaged in minimizing RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) in Radio Waves, a critical issue in the field of astronomy.
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GalProTE: Galactic Properties Mapping using Transformer Encoder
Anwar, O., Groves, B., Cortese, L. & Watts, A., 1 Jul 2025, In: Publications of the Astronomincal Society of Australia (PASA). 42, e102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Apis-Prime: A deep learning model to optimize beehive monitoring system for the task of daily weight estimation
Anwar, O., Keating, A., Cardell-Oliver, R., Datta, A. & Putrino, G., Sept 2023, In: Applied Soft Computing. 144, 110546.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Design and development of low-power, long-range data acquisition system for beehives-BeeDAS
Anwar, O., Datta, A., Keating, A., Cardell-Oliver, R. & Putrino, G., Oct 2022, In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 201, 12 p., 107281.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Smart Beehive Monitoring for Remote Regions
Anwar, O., 2022, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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WE-Bee: Weight Estimator for Beehives Using Deep Learning
Anwar, O., Keating, A., Cardell-Oliver, R., Datta, A. & Putrino, G., 28 Feb 2022, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022: 1st International Workshop on Practical Deep Learning in the Wild.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review
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