Self-funded PhD Positions Available
• Deep Learning based Computer Graphics for Virtual Human Synthesis• Computer Vision with Deep Learning for Human Data Modelling
• Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Understanding the People Context in Artworks
• Machine Learning based Human Motion Analysis for Automatic Diseases Diagnosis
Research Funding
By Year / By Type
2020
Security Technology Research Innovation Grants Programme (S-TRIG) (Ref: 007CD): £29,500, Principal Investigator
Project Title: Tracking Drones Across Different Platforms with Machine Vision
Project Title: Tracking Drones Across Different Platforms with Machine Vision
- Received from the Catapult Network (S-TRIG), UK, 2020
- Supported a research project with Chris Willcocks and General Autonomy Ltd
- Providing the UK government with extra capacity to identify and counter hostile drones
Start-up Research Grant (Ref: S090HS): £8,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK, 2020
- Supported research revelopment in visual computing
Postgraduate Research Scholarship: £65,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2020
- Supported one PhD student, Manli Zhu, for three years of study
2019
Defence and Security Accelerator (Ref: DSTLX-1000140725): £124,901, Principal Investigator
Project Title: D-FOCUS: Drone-FOrmation Control for countering future Unmanned aerial Systems
Project Title: D-FOCUS: Drone-FOrmation Control for countering future Unmanned aerial Systems
- Received from the Ministry of Defence (DASA), UK, 2019
- Supported a collaborative research project with Prof. Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh, Dr He Wang from the University of Leeds, and the industry partner DroneLab
- Supported the recruitment of a Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dr John Hartley and the cost for equipment
- 1 out of 3 universities, together with the University of Cambridge and University College London, accepted in this call
- Researched and developed an innovative counter-UAV system using multiple drones
GX Project Grants Scheme: £10,242, Principal Investigator
Project Title: Wound Monitoring with Depth Cameras on Portable Systems
Project Title: Wound Monitoring with Depth Cameras on Portable Systems
- Received from Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, UK, 2019
- Supported a collaborative research project with an industrial partner Indigo Multimedia
- Designed and developed a smartphone-based wound monitoring application with a depth camera
Royal Society International Exchanges (Ref: IES\R2\181024): £12,000, Principal Investigator
Project Title: Modelling Human Motion for Synthesis and Recognition with Deep Learning on Surface Features
Project Title: Modelling Human Motion for Synthesis and Recognition with Deep Learning on Surface Features
- Received from the Royal Society, UK, 2019
- Supported a collaborative research project with Dr Antonio Mucherino from University of Rennes 1, France
- Researched on human body surface representations using deep learning
Royal Society International Exchanges (Ref: IES\R1\191147): £11,940, Co-Applicant
(PI: Dr Edmond S. L. Ho)
Project Title: Autonomous Monitoring for Patients and Older People using Smart Environments with Sensor Fusion
Project Title: Autonomous Monitoring for Patients and Older People using Smart Environments with Sensor Fusion
- Received from the Royal Society, UK, 2019
- Supported a collaborative research project with Prof. Samiran Chattopadhyay from Jadavpur University, India
2018
Creative Fuse North East: £24,000, Co-Investigator
(PI: Shoes2Run Limited, Industrial Partner)
Project Title: Shoes2Run Wearable Technology
Project Title: Shoes2Run Wearable Technology
- Received from Creative Fuse North East, UK, 2018
- Supported a collaborative research project led by the industrial partner Shoes2Run for wearable motion sensors
Postgraduate Research Scholarship: £65,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2018
- Supported one PhD student (Daniel Organisciak) for three years of study
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment: £25,000, Co-Investigator
(PI: Dr Edmond S. L. Ho)
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2018
- Purchased intelligent interactions equipment including robots, drones and sensors
2017
Royal Society International Exchanges (Ref: IE160609): £11,841, Principal Investigator
Project Title: An Affective Smart Environment for Personalized Learning and Teaching
Project Title: An Affective Smart Environment for Personalized Learning and Teaching
- Received from the Royal Society, UK, 2017
- Supported a collaborative research project with Dr Matangini Chattopadhyay from Jadavpur University, India
- Researched on facial analysis with deep learning for estimating student learning performance
Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics (Ref: H29-LDGSN-024 & H29-LDGSN-025): ¥2.93 million (~£20,000), Co-Applicant
(PI: Prof. Shigeo Morishima, Japanese Partner)
- Received from Waseda University, Japan, 2017
- Supported 1 Japanese PhD (Naoki Nozawa) from Waseda University, Japan, to work under the supervision of Dr. Hubert P. H. Shum at Northumbria University, UK, for 6 months
- Supported the PhD with 12 months of studentships
- Researched on 3D car shape reconstruction from a 2D sketch
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment (Ref: 512820): £40,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2017
- Purchased augmented reality equipment and GPU workstations for research and teaching
2016
Research and Enterprise Reward Scheme (Ref: 510972): £6,700, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2016
- Initiated collaborative research projects with academic and industrial partners
- Hired 3 part-time Research Assistants (Ranti Endeley, Alex Ono, Matin Salali) for research support
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment (Ref: 511988): £28,500, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2016
- Purchased virtual reality equipment and GPU workstations for research and teaching
2015
Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme (Ref: 2014-0861/001-001): €3.03 million, Northumbria Funding Management Officer
(Project PI: Prof. Nauman Aslam)
Project Title: Sustainable Green Economies through Learning, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge Exchange (gLink)
Project Title: Sustainable Green Economies through Learning, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge Exchange (gLink)
- Received from Erasmus Mundus, 2015
- Led by Northumbria Univeristy, supported collaborative research and training among 18 partner universities, with 9 from Europe and 9 from Asia
- Within my research team, supported 3 Post-doctoral Research Fellows (Dr Pengpeng Hu, Dr Ying Huang, Dr Worasak Rueangsirarak) for 10 months each, and 1 PhD (Dr Shanfeng Hu) for 27 months
MEXT Top Global University Project Scholarship: £5,500, Co-Applicant
(PI: Prof. Shigeo Morishima, Japanese Partner)
- Received from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2015
- Supported 1 Japanese PhD (Dr Naoya Iwamoto) from Waseda University, Japan, to work under the supervision of Dr. Hubert P. H. Shum at Northumbria University, UK, for 6 months
- Researched on character animation with real-time body surface deformation
Top-up Fund for EPSRC Project: £24,300, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2015
- Increased the scale of the EPSRC project EP/M002632/1
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment (Ref: 511276 & 511671): £34,500, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2015
- Purchased an inertia-based motion capture system and a 4K 3D production kit for research and teaching
Research and Enterprise Reward Scheme (Ref: 510972): £3,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2015
- Initiated collaborative research projects with academic and industrial partners
2014
EPSRC First Grant Scheme (Ref: EP/M002632/1): £123,819, Principal Investigator
Project Title: Interaction-based Human Motion Analysis
Project Title: Interaction-based Human Motion Analysis
- Received from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, 2014
- Official project report on UK Research and Innovation
- Supported 1 Post-doctoral Research Fellows (Dr Lining Zhang) for 18 months
- Researched on interaction features for modelling human-human and human-environment interactions
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment (Ref: 510536): £18,500, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2014
- Purchased a 3D scanner system for a geometric modelling research project
Postgraduate Research Scholarship: £65,000 x 2 = £130,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2014
- Supported two PhD students (Dr Yijun Shen, Dr Jingtian Zhang) for three years of study each
2013
Capital Expenditure for Research Equipment (Ref: 510227): £12,500, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2013
- Purchase high-performance workstations for a crowd simulation project
2012
New Academic Staff Support Grant (Ref: 100700-IO114845): £2,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, UK, 2012
- Facilitated a new research project and produced a paper on IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Vacation Research Assistantship: £1,000, Principal Investigator
- Received from the University of Worcester, UK, 2012
- Recruited an short-term Research Assistant and produced a conference paper
2009
Initiating Knowledge Transfer Fund (Ref: 7P-2414): £15,000, Contributing Researcher
(PI: Prof. Taku Komura, PhD Supervisor)
- Received from Edinburgh Research and Innovation Department, the University of Edinburgh, UK, 2009
- Based on my ACM Transactions on Graphics publication
- Produced software for crowd interaction simulation as a plugin of Autodesk Maya
- Resulted in a patent
Last update: 20 January 2021