I have been working closely with my PhD students, Visiting/Internship Students and Visiting Scholars over the years. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about my work and explore new opportunities.

I am currently looking for PhD students who are interested in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning. Two potential project directions are listed below and I am open to other relevant topics as well. The candidate is expected to have strong programming skills, some prior experience in machine learning and visual computing (computer vision and/or computer graphics), and good English communication skills. Please contact me for further information. Details for PhD application at the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow can be found here.


PhD students (ordered by surname)

Anthony Ashwin
Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Co-supervised, since 2020)
Research interests: Deep Learning, Active Learning

Luca Crosato
Northumbria University, United Kingdom (since 2020)
Research interests: Autonomous Vehicles, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision

Zeyu Dong
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Co-supervised, since 2023)
Research interests: Object Detection and Scene Understanding

Shiyu Fan
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (since 2023)
Research interests: Character Animation

Shaun Lillie
Northumbria University, United Kingdom (since 2020)
Research interests: VR and AI for Education

Zeqi Luo
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (since 2023)
Research interests: to be dertermined

Chenxiang Sun
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (since 2023)
Research interests: AI in Healthcare

Yuxuan Xie
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (since 2023)
Research interests: Interaction Modelling

Wenning Xu
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (since 2023)
Research interests: Character Animation

Xi Zhang
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Co-supervized, since 2023)
Research interests: to be dertermined

Manli Zhu
Northumbria University, United Kingdom (since 2020)
Research interests: Deep Learning, Human Motion Analysis, Healthcare Technology

Visiting scholars

Aman Goel
Research Intern (since Feb 2022, from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India)
Research interests: Computer Vision, Computer Graphics

PhD alumni

Dr. Haozheng Zhang
Graduated in 2024 (Co-supervised) - Durham University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Human data modelling, Deep Learning, Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Kevin McCay
Graduated in 2022 - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Technology

Dr. Daniel Organisciak
Graduated in 2022 (Co-supervised) - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Attention, Image Generation, Natural Language Generation

Dr. Dimitrios Sakkos
Graduated in 2020 - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Background Subtraction

Dr. Jingtian Zhang
Graduated in 2020 (Co-supervised) - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Computer Vision, Action Recognition

Dr. Yijun Shen
Graduated in 2019 (Co-supervised) - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research interests: Character Animation, Motion Synthesis

Past contributors

Dr. John Hartley
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Drone Controls

Dr. Jacky C. P. Chan
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Research interests: Character Aniamtion, Computer Graphics

Dr. Gary Jiayu Liang
Research Assistant (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Research interests: Computer Vision, Visual Attention, Visual Psychology

Dr. Qianhui Men
Visiting PhD student (City University of Hong Kong, Summer 2019)
Research interests: Deep Learning, Human Motion Synthesis

Kaveen Perera
PhD student (Co-supervised, Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Research interests: Video Summarization

Cameron Craggs
PhD student (Co-supervised, Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Research interests: Motion Capture, Virtual Reality

Chenyang Xia
Research Assistant (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Research interests: Character Aniamtion, Crowd Simulation

Donald C. K. Chan
Research Assistant (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Research interests: Action Recognition