After completing his PhD, Ugail worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics at University of Leeds until September 2002. He then became a lecturer at the School of Informatics at the
University of Bradford. He was appointed as a senior lecturer in April 2005, and became a professor in 2009. In 2011, Ugail received the Maldives National Award for Innovation for his work in the field of visual computing. Ugail is the director of the Centre for Visual Computing at the University of Bradford. Ugail is known for his work on computer-based human face analysis including
facial recognition, face ageing,
emotion analysis and
lie detection. In 2018, Ugail worked with
Bellingcat journalists to verify the identities of two suspected Russian spies involved in the
Salisbury Novichok poisoning case. In 2019, he helped the Commission on Deaths and Disappearances to investigate cold cases such as
Ahmed Rilwan,
Yameen Rasheed and
Afrasheem Ali via his lie detection services as well as his face-recognition system. In 2020,
BBC News investigators consulted Ugail as an expert in facial mapping to identify an alleged Nazi war criminal. , Ugail's team is working on image analysis as part of a project to assess the quality of human organs for
transplant. The project is supported by
NHS Blood and Transplant, Quality in Organ Donation biobank, and the
National Institute for Health and Care Research. == Bibliography ==