Press and external activities

Press and Media

My research addresses a variety of real-world challenges, and the impact and successful applications have been reported by media, including BBC, NewScientist, Robotics & Automation, Independent, AI Business, and Robotics & Innovation, as well as university Research and Innovation, Newsletter from our Vice-Chancellor, School of Science Research News etc.

My research and its impact have been widely reported by media:

Panel Member and Grant Peer Reviewer

  • UKRI EPSRC Panel member for ICT Fellowship, 2022.
  • UKRI Panel Member of CDT-AI (Centres for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence).
  • AI Steering Group member at Loughborough University
  • Grant Peer Reviewer for UKRI research Councils, e.g. EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC and STFC, Action Medical Research.

Editors and Reviewers

  • Guest Editor: Sustainability (journal IF:2.8): AI and Machine Learning Research for Sustainability, 2020.
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions Cybernetics
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions Industrial Informatics
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics
  • Reviewer for Pattern Recognition
  • Reviewer for a number of international conferences, e.g. IEEE SMC, IEEE ICPICS, IEEE ICAICA

Conference Organisation and TPC (recent)

  • General Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications (ICAICA), 2021.
  • Co-Chairs, IEEE 3rd Int. Conf. on Safe Production and Informatization (IICSPI), 2020.
  • TPC: 16th Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP), Feb. 2021. Austria.
  • TPC: 13th Int. Conf. Machine vision, Nov. 02-06, ICMV 2020, Rome, Italy.   
  • TPC: 7th Int. Conf. Foundations of Computer Science & Technology, Nov. CST2020, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • TPC: 6th Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic Systems (AIFZ 2020), Oct. 24 ~ 25, 2020, Sydney, Australia
  • TPC: 2nd Int Conf. Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2020), Sept. 26 ~ 27, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • TPC: 3rd International Conference on Control and Computer Vision. ICCCV Macau, August 25-28, 2020
  • TPC: 6th Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIFU 2020), July, 2020, London, UK.
  • TPC: IEEE Int. Conference on Power, Intelligent Computing and Systems, ICPICS, July 2020.
  • TPC: IEEE Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications, ICAICA, June 2020.
  • TPC: Int. Conference Intelligence Technology & Applications, iRobot, June 2020.
  • Technical Program Chair, UK RAS (Robotics and Autonomous Systems) Conference, Jan. 2019.   
  • Technical Program Chair:UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conf. Loughborough, UK. 2019. 

Keynotes and Invited Talks (Recent)

  • Keynote: 6th Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic Systems (AIFZ) 2020. Sydney, Australia.
  • Keynote: 33rd Int. Conf. Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, 2020. Flamingo, Las Vegas, USA.
  • Keynote: 2nd Int.  Conf. on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA), 2020. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Keynote: IEEE Int. Conf. on Power, Intelligent Computing and Systems (ICPICS), 2020. Shenyang, China.
  • Keynote: Int. Conf. Advanced Computer Science & Information Technology, ACSIT 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Keynote:  IEEE Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications, ICAICA 2020.
  • Keynote: Robot Intelligence Technology & Applications, iRobot-2020.  Europe.
  • Invited Talk: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2018,  “Perceptually validated analytical BRDFs parameters remapping”, Vancouver, Canada. (delivered by my PhD student).

Research Collaboration

  • UK universities: Manchester, Oxford, UCL, Reading, Cardiff, Aberystwyth, etc.
  • Carnegie Mellon University, US
  • Harvard Medical School, Boston University, US
  • Diagnostics and Metrology Laboratory, Italy
  • National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Tianjin University, Jiangsu University, Xidian University etc. in China
  • Central Manchester University Hospitals
  • Bolton National Health Service Foundation Trust
  • NHS Lothian
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • East Midlands Academic Health Science Network

I also host academic visitors to further develop my international research profile, also helping increase University’s global reputation.

Industry Partners

I have established a wide range of industry collaborations through research, knowledge transfer and impact generation. Recent industry collaborators include ARM, Witted Srl. (autonomous underwater robots, Italy), Statmetrix (sports tech.), Millitec Food Systems (UK leading machinery & automation in food industry), Tata Steel Ltd, Satoshi Systems (commodity supply chain industry), Signifier Medical Technologies (healthcare and medical devices), Innova Integra (robotics), Software Imaging (IoT), Xceptor (financial software), Nantong Guangyi Ltd (national leading in agriculture machinery, China), EEGSmart (high-tech, China), Consard, MIRA Rehab, Optos Plc. and Broadsword Interactive Ltd. etc.

Memberships

  • Senior Member of IEEE
  • EPSRC Full College Member
  • Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Member of IEEE Computer Society
  • Member of British Machine Vision Association