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University of Leeds

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5.05/4/2026

Always fair, kind, and deeply insightful.

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About Faisal

Professor Faisal Mushtaq is Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds. He earned his BSc in Psychology and PhD from the University of Leeds, with his doctoral thesis titled "Electrophysiological correlates of affective context and risk-taking in human decision-making." His areas of expertise encompass cognitive neuroscience, psychology, learning, decision making, sensorimotor processes, electroencephalography (EEG), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). Mushtaq's research lies at the interface of psychology, engineering, and computer science, adopting a multi-modal approach to investigate the relationship between action and cognition. This involves capturing neural activity using EEG, behavioral markers of performance through VR/AR in laboratory settings, and extracting real-world performance measures from large-scale datasets. His work advances the application of cognitive science principles to accelerate skilled behavior acquisition, such as in surgeons performing minimally invasive procedures and in developing human-like decision-making for robots.