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.

Current team

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

PhD students (as co-supervisor):

• Hao Tang (Dec 2024 - ). Co-supervising with Prof. Lu Liu and Prof. Nick Stone.

MSc students:

• Qinqing Li (November 2024 - )

• Mujeeb Adewuyi Sonibare (Jan 2025 -)

• Raghavendra Margasahayam Venkatesh (Jan 2025 - )

• Heegon Kim (Jan 2025 - )

• Yuanhang Zhang (Mar 2025 - )

• Xuan Zhang (Mar 2025 - )

Undergraduate students:

• Toby Shelford (Sep 2024 -)

• Zihan Wang (Sep 2024 - )

Others:

I am co-supervising some PhD and MSc students with my external collaborators.

Alumni

My students have pursued diverse career paths: some have become faculty members at Chinese universities, others have joined leading companies like Google and Bosch, while others have continued their academic journey by pursuing PhDs at prestigious universities.

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)
    • Now Research and Development Lead, AI Collaboration Centre (AICC), Queen’s University Belfast & Ulster University

• 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

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• As the co-supervisor

  • Ping Ye (PhD student)

    • Topic: Object tracking, information fusion
    • Now a lecturer at Ningxia University, China

  • Jun Liu (graduate student)

    • Topic: Object tracking
    • Now a lecturer at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China

  • Shengyun Peng (undergraduate student)

    • Topic: Computer vision, object tracking
    • Now a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology

University of Exeter:

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

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

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