[5] 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.
[13] In 2018, Ugail worked with Bellingcat journalists to verify the identities of two suspected Russian spies involved in the Salisbury Novichok poisoning case.
[14][15][16] 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.
[17][18] In 2020, BBC News investigators consulted Ugail as an expert in facial mapping to identify an alleged Nazi war criminal.
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