His current research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, decision support systems, computational finance and game theory, health Informatics, data mining. He has published nearly 200 journal and conference papers in these areas and taken part in a number of funded research projects including UK EPSRC project “Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems: Method and Its Application to Strategic Pricing Decision Support for Retails”, 6th EU Framework Programme project “QoSIPS (Quality of Service and Pricing Differentiation for IP Services)”, 7th EU Framework Programme project "Linked2Safety" and "ECO2Clouds", EU H2020 Project "Big Data in Finance", industrial funded research project “Data Mining Approach to Pricing Decision Support and Revenue Management for Retail” and “Pricing Decision Support Systems for Petroleum”.

He has served to scholarly and professional communities in various roles including an Associate Editor of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Special Session Chair of 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Program Chair of 2009, 2011, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation, Program Co-Chair of the 9th Int Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, and an elected member of the EPSRC College.