I am an Associate Professor (Reader) in Computer Science at Northumbria University, as well as the Director of Research and Innovation of the Computer and Information Sciences Department. I lead the Computational Intelligence and Visual Computing Research Team, which consists of 9 faculty members, 2 post-doctoral researchers and 22 PhDs. Before this, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, a Lecturer at the University of Worcester, a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN Japan, and a research assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. I received my PhD degree from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, as well as my Master and Bachelor degrees from the City University of Hong Kong.
As for the research funding to support my team, I am the PI of a £124,000 EPSRC grant on human motion analysis, and a £11,800 Royal Society grant on smart environments. I have also been the funding management officer of a €3.03 million Erasmus Mundus project. In addition to these, I have received more than £300,000 from Northumbria University to hire PhD students and purchase research equipment.
I have organized conferences such as the British Machine Vision Conference, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games and the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. I have served as a member of Program Committee more than 30 times in 9 conferences, including the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG), and the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). I am an Associate Editor of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and have been a Guest Editor of Computers and Graphics. I have collaborated with industrial partners especially from the healthcare sector, such as NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG, NHS Innovation North, Kinesio UK and Your Homes Newcastle (City Council). I have established an international academic network with institutes such as Waseda University, INRIA, the University of Edinburgh and the University of East Anglia.
For more information, please check out my  YouTube channel,  Google Scholar profile and other pages.
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Recent News
- 06/18 - Sunderland City Council visited my research team to explore collaborations.
- 06/18 - Matangini Chattopadhyay and Samiran Chattopadhyay from Jadavpur University, India have visited our research team.
- 05/18 - I organized a demo session and gave a seminar in Innovation Showcase at City Hospitals Sunderland.
- 04/18 - I gave a research seminar at Jadavpur University in India.
- 03/18 - I gave a research seminar at the University of Portsmouth.
- 03/18 - I became the Programme Chair of SKIMA 2018.
- 03/18 - I became the Local Chair of CloudComp 2018, which will be held in Northumbria University.
- 02/18 - Our project proposal was accepted by Creative Fuse North East and was awarded with a £24,000 seed fund.
- 02/18 - I became a member of Program Committee in SCA 2018, MIG 2018 and CGVC 2018.
- 02/18 - Our ACE 2017 paper has been selected as the best paper award.
- 01/18 - Katerina Jaandova and Ayano Kaneda joined our research team as an internship MSc and visiting MSc respectively.
- 12/17 - I gave a research seminar in Waseda Univeristy and Huawei Japan on machine learning for human motion understanding.
- 12/17 - Naoki Nozawa joined our research team as an internship PhD.
- 12/17 - I visited Takashi Miyaki and his students from Tokyo University, and saw with some very cool AR demos..
- 12/17 - I was invited by Prof. Shigeo Morishima from Waseda University to visit in his laboratory for some collaborative research projects.
- 11/17 - Ly Le, an Associate Professor from Ho Chi Minh City International University, visited my research team.
- 11/17 - Ying Huang became a Post-doc researcher in my team.
- 10/17 - I was invited to be an Associate Editor for the journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds.
- 09/17 - My team visited Royal Victoria Infirmary from NHS Foundation Trust to start a research project.
- 09/17 - I was awarded with £40,000 from Northumbria University for purchasing augmented reality equipment in 2017/18.
- 09/17 - Pengpeng Hu became a Post-doc researcher in my team.
- 09/17 - Prof. Shigeo Morishima visited my research team for the discussion in organizing VRST 2018.
- 09/17 - I visited City Hospitals Sunderland to initialize a new research project.
- 08/17 - I became the Program Chair of BMVC 2018, which will be host at Northumbria University.
- 08/17 - I became the International Chair of VRST 2018.
- 08/17 - I became a member of Program Committee in CASA 2018.
- 07/17 - Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital has visited my research team.
- 07/17 - I became a member of Program Committee in PG 2017, SCA 2017, BMVC 2017, CASA 2017, VRST 2017, MIG 2017, SKIMA 2017, and ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Data-Driven Animation Techniques 2017.
- 06/17 - City Hospitals Sunderland from NHS Foundation Trust has visited my research team.
- 06/17 - I was invited to be the external examiner of a PhD at the University of the West Scotland and 2 PhDs at Sheffield University.
- 05/17 - I became a Guest Editor for a special issue in the Elsevier journal Computers and Graphics.
- 05/17 - Alex Ono,
Ranti Endeley and
Matin Salali have joined our team as Part-time Research Assistants.
- 04/17 - I gave research seminars at Seoul National University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Hokkaido University.
- 04/17 - I received £11,841 from the Royal Society International Exchanges fund.
- 03/17 - I represented Northumbria to attend the annual meeting of gLink, a €3.03 million Erasmus Mundus project, in Vietnam.
- 03/17 - I gave a research seminar at Waseda University.
- 01/17 - NHS Innovation North, NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG, Your Homes Newcastle (City Council), Lenovo and Kinesio UK signed the letters of support for my funding proposal.
- 01/17 - Shoujiang Xu joined our team as a Researcher.
- 12/16 - I gave a research seminar at Edinburgh University.
- 12/16 - Kaveen Perera joined our team as a PhD student.
- 11/16 - I gave a research seminar at INRIA in Rennes.
- 10/16 - Shanfeng Hu joined our team as a PhD student.
- 10/16 - I was promoted to Associate Professor (Reader) at Northumbria University.
- 10/16 - Our MIG poster was voted to receive the
Poster Award.
- 09/16 - I gave a research seminar at Moving Picture Company (MPC).
- 09/16 - Our UKCI paper received the Best Paper award.
- 09/16 - I received £28,500 from Northumbria University to purchase virtual reality equipment and GPU workstations..
- 08/16 - Worasak Rueangsirarak joined our team as a Post-doctoral Researcher.
- 07/16 - I received £6,700 from the Northumbira University under the Research and Enterprise Reward Scheme.
- 06/16 - I became the Program Chair of MIG 2016.
- 04/16 - My co-supervised PhDs have been awarded the IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants for two papers.
- 03/16 - I gave a research seminar at Waseda University.
- 02/16 - I became a member of Program Committee in PG 2016, SCA 2016, VRST 2016, MIG 2016, CASA 2016 and BMVC 2016.
- 01/16 - I gave two research seminars in the City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
- 11/15 - I received £18,000 from Northumbria University to purchase a 4K 3D production kit.
- 11/15 - I was invited by Aberystwyth University to be an External Eximinar for a PhD student.
- 11/15 - I received £3,000 from the Northumbira University under the Research and Enterprise Reward Scheme.
- 10/15 - Prof. Franck Multon and Dr. Ludovic Hoyet visited our research group and gave a departmental seminar.
- 09/15 - Naoya Iwamoto visited our research group again for a 4 month collaborative research project.
- 07/15 - I received £16,500 from Northumbria University to purchase an intertia-based motion capture system.
- 05/15 - I became a member of Program Committee in BMVC 2015, VRST 2015, CASA 2015, MIG 2015, ICWL 2015 and SKIMA 2015.
- 04/15 - My research outputs for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) were listed online: Paper 1, 2 and 3.
- 03/15 - Lining Zhang joined our team as a Post-doctoral Researcher.
- 02/15 - I was invited by Newcastle University to give a research seminar on motion analysis.
- 01/15 - I received £24,300 from Northumbria University to top-up my EPSRC project.
- 01/15 - Jingtian Zhang joined our team as a PhD student.
- 12/14 - I obtained the title Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
- 12/14 - I completed the Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Higher Education Practice.
- 11/14 - I was invited by Edinburgh University to be to be an External Eximinar for a MSc student.
- 11/14 - My EPSRC First Grant project was accepted. It is worth £124,000 and will be started in 2015.
- 11/14 - I chaired the computer animation session in the VRST 2014.
- 10/14 - I became the Local Chair of VRST 2014.
- 09/14 - I became an invited speaker in JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality.
- 07/14 - I visited the Hong Kong Baptist University for a research project.
- 04/14 - I received £18,500 to purchase a 3D scanner system from the Northumbria University.
- 04/14 - I became a member of Program Committee in SCA 2014, CASA 2014, VRST 2014, MIG 2014 and SKIMA 2014
- 04/14 - Naoya Iwamoto has joint our team as a visiting researcher.
- 03/14 - Journal paper accepted in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds as a special issue of CASA 2014.
- 03/14 - I was invited by the Technology Foundation STW to review a research funding proposal.
- 03/14 - Your Homes Newcastle from the City Council has provided me with a letter of support.
- 03/14 - I was invited to give a seminar at Rennes 2 University.
- 02/14 - Kinesio UK, Nine Health CIC, Lemon Moose Games and Cadence Performance signed the statements of support for my grant proposal.
- 01/14 - I became the Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Computer Animation and VFX
- 01/14 - Yijun Shen joined our team as a PhD student.
- 09/13 - I received £12,500 to purchase high performance workstations from the Northumbria University.
- 08/13 - I visited the Hong Kong Baptist University and the City University of Hong Kong for research projects
- 08/13 - Journal papers accepted in the IEEE TCyb, the IEEE TVCG, the CGF and the CAVW
- 07/13 - I received two PGR studentships from the Northumbria University to support two PhD students
- 05/13 - I became a member of Program Committee in SCA 2013, MIG 2013, CASA 2013 and SKIMA 2013
- 01/13 - I gave two research seminars in the University of Tokyo and the Waseda University
- 01/13 - My first robotics paper was accepted in the IEEE ICRA 2013
- 12/12 - I chaired a session in the ACM VRST 2012
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