Team

I have supervised and co-supervised students at various universities and continue to do so in my current role. I deeply enjoy supporting students’ growth and development through my supervision. As Mencius the philosopher said, attracting talented individuals from all over the world and educating them is one of the greatest joys in life.

At University of Exeter

At the University of Exeter, I lead the Fusion Intelligence Laboratory, where I supervise PhD, MSc, and undergraduate students.

PhD students (as primary supervisor):

• Zixian Zhao (Sep 2024 - ). Co-supervisor: Prof. Andrew Howes (Head of the Department of Computer Science)

• Ning Wang (Jan 2025 - ). Co-supervisor: Prof. Xujiong Ye

MSc students:

• Qinqing Li (November 2024 - )

• Mujeeb Adewuyi Sonibare (Jan 2025 -)

• Raghavendra Margasahayam Venkatesh (Jan 2025 - )

Undergraduate students:

• Toby Shelford (Sep 2024 -)

• Zihan Wang (Sep 2024 - )

Alumni:

• Charlie Wilkinson (June - Aug 2024, MSc): Leveraging NLP and ML to Predict and Differentiate Substance Abuse Statuses: Uncovering Key Linguistic Indicators

• Ahmer Jalil Najar (June - Aug 2024, MSc): Advanced Sentiment Analysis in Sub-Reddit Discussions

• Yifeng Wang (June - Aug 2024, MSc): NLP Techniques for Anonymising Sensitive Data

At Imperial College London

I was the primary supervisor of one MSc student in Applied Machine Learning at the Department of EEE from 2022 to 2023 and has been an Assistant Supervisor appointed by Imperial College since December 2020. All the MSc students I supervised or co-supervised at Imperial College got their degrees with distinction. Additionally, I am a mentor of Imperial’s Activate Student Mentoring Programm, where I supported one PhD student to enhance her academic and professional development.

• As the primary supervisor

  • Zixian Zhao (MSc, distinction)
    • Topic: Computer Vision-based Video Anonymisation for Privacy Protection
    • Published one paper in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems based on the MSc project
    • Now a PhD student at the University of Exeter (fully funded by the university)

• As a mentor of Imperial’s Activate Student Mentoring Programme

  • Sneha Jha (PhD student)

• As the assistant supervisor (co-supervise with Prof. Yiannis Demiris)

  • Zhigang Sun (MSc, distinction)
    • Topic: Visual Scene Understanding and Tracking from Traffic Cameras
    • Now a Research Engineer at Bosch Research
  • Victor Badoual (MEng)
    • Topic: Visual Scene Understanding and Tracking from Traffic Cameras
    • Now a Software Engineer at Google
  • Tobias Hillier (MEng)
    • Topic: Mixed Traffic Simulation for Autonomous Systems in Shared Spaces
    • Now a Project Engineer at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace

At Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• As the co-supervisor

  • Ping Ye (PhD student)
    • Topic: Object tracking, information fusion
    • Now a lecturer at Ningxia University
  • Jun Liu (graduate student)
    • Topic: Object tracking
    • Now a lecturer at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering
  • Shengyun Peng (undergraduate student)
    • Topic: Computer vision, object tracking
    • Now a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology