Funded Projects


"SAFEVID: Spasms Analysis using Federated Learning from Videos Across Multiple TREs" (~£450,000) Website
Principal Investigator (PI), UKRI DARE UK real-world research exemplar programme (Ref: UKRI4079), 2026-2027

"VISDOM-AI: Video-based Infantile epileptic Spasms Detection from bOdy Movements using AI" (~£175,000) Website
Principal Investigator (PI), Epilepsy Research Institute Endeavour Project Grant (Ref: 2504P), 2025-2027

"BrAInwaves" (~£150,000 - on automating video-based General Movement Assessment using AI) Website
Co-Investigator (Co-I) [PI: HI Scotland], The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust (Ref: GA-03567), 2025-2026

"Regulatory Sandbox for Evaluating Robustness of AI-based Neurological Disorder Prediction from Video"
Principal Investigator (PI) [International Collaborators: Prof. Peter Marschik and Dr. Lars Adde], Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council RIS International Collaboration Fund, 2025-2026

"Feasibility and accuracy of video based automated generalised tonic-clonic seizure detection in dogs using artificial intelligence algorithms"
Co-Investigator (Co-I), BSAVA PetSavers' Clinical Research Project Grant, 2026

"Towards Fairer Assessment of Reading Difficulties Through Practitioner Co-Creation"
Principal Investigator (PI), Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, 2026

"Modelling Cardiopulmonary and Metabolic Parameters using Multimodal Machine Learning"
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), Lund University Get Started Funding, 2025-2026


"Infant Movement Assessment for Identifying Neurological Conditions from Videos using Cloud-based AI" (~£50,000) Website
Principal Investigator (PI), EPSRC and MRC Impact Acceleration Account Standard Project (Ref: EP/X525716/1 and MR/X502807/1), 2024-2025

Cerebral Palsy Alliance Conference, Training & Travel Grant (Ref: CTT01424), 2024

"CAIVeS - creating a secure Cloud Artificial Intelligence Video Service for automated analysis of patient/carer recorded smartphone video " (US$250,000 AWS credits) Official Announcement
Project Team Member [PI: HI Scotland], Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative (HEI), 2023-2025

Turing Network Development Award Official Announcement
Award Lead and Proposal Lead (Northumbria University), EPSRC / The Alan Turing Institute, 2022

"Autonomous Monitoring for Patients and Older People using Smart Environments with Sensor Fusion"
Principal Investigator (PI), Royal Society Yusuf Hamied International Exchange Award (Ref: IES\R1\191147), 2019-2022

"D-FOCUS: Drone-FOrmation Control for countering future Unmanned Aerial Systems" (~£125,000)
Contributor (PI @ Northumbria University in 2020), Ministry of Defence (DASA) Defence and Security Accelerator - Phase 1 (Ref: DSTLX-1000140725, ACC6007422), 2019-2020

"Deep Learning in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality"
Principal Investigator (PI), NVIDIA GPU Grant, 2018

"Intelligent Interactions Lab"
Principal Investigator (PI), Northumbria University CAPEX Fund, 2018-2019

"Shoes2Run - Wearable Technology"
Co-Investigator (Co-I) [PI: Shoes2Run Limited, industrial partner], Creative Fuse North East, 2018

"Augmented Reality Equipment for Teaching and Research"
Principal Investigator (PI), Northumbria University CAPEX Fund, 2017-2018

"A Multi-resolution Spatial Relation based Representation for Close Character Interactions Analysis and Synthesis" (HK$500,000)
Principal Investigator (PI), RGC General Research Fund (RGC/HKBU210813), 2013-2016

"Modelling Human-Object Interactions based on Spatial Relations for Robust Action Recognition" (CNY 250,000)
Principal Investigator (PI), NSFC Young Scientists Fund (Ref: 61302176), 2013-2016

"Modelling Temporal Structure for Robust and Efficient Human Action Recognition"
Principal Investigator (PI), HKBU Faculty Research Grant (FRG2/14-15/105), 2015-2016

"Monitoring Posture for Workplace Health and Safety with A Depth Camera"
Principal Investigator (PI), HKBU Faculty Research Grant (FRG2/13-14/092), 2014-2015

"Research on Efficient Multi-Character Motion Adaptation Based on A Multi-resolution Hierarchical Model for Spacetime Optimization"
Principal Investigator (PI), HKBU Faculty Research Grant (FRG2/12-13/078), 2013-2014

"Synthesizing Physically Valid Close Interactions for Controlling Humanoid Characters and Robots"
Principal Investigator (PI), HKBU Faculty Research Grant (FRG1/12-13/055), 2013-2014