Professional Activities

Journal Editorships

• Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Associate Editor, since 2019
• Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), Associate Editor, since 2017
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Machine Vision and Deep Learning, 2020
• Computers and Graphics (C&G), Guest Editor, Special Section on Motion, Interactions and Games, 2020
• Computers and Graphics (C&G), Guest Editor, Special Section on Motion in Games, 2017

Grant Proposal Reviews

• Full Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, since 2021
• Associate Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 2018 - 2021
• EPSRC Standard Proposal in 2018, 2020, 2021
• Canadian NSERC Discovery Grants in 2021
• Mitacs Accelerate Research Proposal in 2021
• Canadian Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal in 2020
• French National Research Agency (ANR) Project INVISCO in 2018
• Dutch Technology Foundation STW in 2014
• Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2012

Keynote/Invited Speaker

• Keynote speaker in the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD) 2020
• Invited speaker in Advanced Technology for Health and Care Services by Sunderland City Council, 2019
• Invited speaker in Innovation Showcase Digital by NHS South Tyneside and Sunderland Health Group, 2018
• Invited speaker in the JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, 2014

Conference Services

Organization Committee

• Conference Chair of Pacific Graphics 2022.
• Conference Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2022.
• Area Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2021
• Area Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2020
• Conference Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games 2019
• Program Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2018
• Program Chair of the International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications 2018
• Demo and Poster Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2018
• Local Chair of the EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
• Program Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2016
• Local Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2014

Program Committee

• Eurographics (EG) 2020, 2021, 2022
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020
• Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) 2016, 2017, 2018
• IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2020
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2021
• ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2020
• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG, formerly Motion in Games) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continnum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019
• International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
• International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG) 2019, 2020
• International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2020
• International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
• International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2015
• Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018, 2019, 2020
• IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) 2018
• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Data-Driven Animation Techniques (D2AT) 2017

Session Chair

• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2012, 2014, 2018
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG, formerly Motion in Games) 2016, 2019
• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2018
• International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2018
• JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality in 2014

Awards

• Best Paper Award in the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems
• Best Student Paper Award in the 2020 International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP)
• Best Paper Award in the 2019 International Conference on Software Knowledge Information Management and Applications (SKIMA)
• Best Poster Award in the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG)
• Best Paper Award in the 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE)
• Best Paper Award in the 2016 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
• Best Poster Award in the 2016 ACM SIGGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG)
• IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants (USD 800) for a co-supervised PhD Jie Li in 2016
• IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants (USD 800) for a co-supervised PhD Yao Tan in 2016
• Outstanding Teaching Performance Award from the University of Worcester in 2011
• Best Paper Award in the 2008 Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents
• PhD Scholarship (£37,000) from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh in 2006

External Examinar

PhD External Examinar

• Maryam Naghizadeh from the Univeristy of Bath in 2021
• Kfir Aberman from Tel Aviv University in 2020
• Twin Karmakharm from Sheffield University in 2017
• Ziyun Cai from Sheffield Unviersity in 2017
• Andreas Stiegler from the University of the West Scotland in 2017
• Lu Lou from Aberystwyth University in 2015

PhD Internal Examinar

• Naif Alshammari from Durham University in 2021

Master Degree External Examinar

• Michael Gillon from the University of Edinburgh in 2014