Industrial Connections | Prof. Hubert Shum's Research Team

2026 – Present	Amelia Space Technologies (Webpage)
2026 – Present	Johnson Matthey (Webpage)
2026 – Present	Wates Group (Webpage)
2026 – Present	SES Engineering Service (Webpage)
2025 – Present	OpenWorks Engineering (Webpage)
2025 – Present	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (Webpage) Represented the former City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust. A project partner in my 2025 EPSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts project on diabetic eye disease analysis.
2023 – Present	The Bowes Museum (Webpage) An art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. A project partnes in my cross-disciplinary eye-tracking project to evaluate visitor experience.
2022 – Present	Sunderland Software City (Webpage) A Sunderland Council funded organisation to support and host North East tech companies. A project partner in my EPSRC CDT proposal.
2022 – 2025	Evergreen Life (Webpage) A UK company hosting a nationwide health and wellbeing platform that spans primary and secondary care. Developing solutions for healthcare providers. Primary care solutions include Evergreen Connect for information sharing between providers and patients, and askmyGP for patient caseload management. Secondary care solutions include Casper for secondary to tertiary referral management, and ePROMS for patients engagement. A project partner in my 2022 Knowledge Transfer Partnership project on skin lesion classification.
2021 – 2023	Art UK (Webpage) A cultural education charity to make the art in UK public collections accessible to everyone. Published over 280,000 artworks by 50,000 artists to date, through collaboration with over 3,400 public art collections. A project partner in my EPSRC proposal on painting analysis.
2020 – 2021	Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Webpage) An international consultancy company with expertise in defence technology. Submitted a joint proposal to Defence and Security Accelerator.
2020 – 2021	General Autonomy Ltd. (Webpage) A Loughborough-based start-up company on drone applications. Submitted a joint proposal to Defence and Security Accelerator. A project contractor in my 2020 Security Technology Research Innovation Grants Programme (S-TRIG) project on tracking drones on different platforms.
2019 – 2020	DroneLab (Webpage) A Gateshead-based company focusing on sensing and analysis with drones. A project partner in my 2019 Defence and Security Accelerator project.
2019 – 2020	Pocket Money Games (Webpage) Co-supervised a PhD under a European Union funded project.
2018 – Present	PROTO (Webpage) A Gateshead Council founded research and development facility worth of £8 million-pound for advanced media productions. I was one of the academic consultants during the initial development of the facility. Provided support letters for my EPSRC and Levelhulme mixed reality proposals.
2018 – 2020	Sunderland City Council (Webpage) Co-organized a seminar series titled Advanced Technology for Health and Care Services (see speaker list). Submitted a joint proposal for the NHS Social Care Digital Pathfinders programme.
2018 – 2020	Moovency (Webpage) A start-up company for automatic ergonomics monitoring. Founded by my graduated PhD Dr Pierre Plantard.
2017 – 2023	Royal Victoria Infirmary (Webpage) From Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Collaborated on a vision-based facial analysis project for cleft lips surgeries. Produced multiple joint research papers, including A Feasibility Study on Image Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation from Patients with Cleft Lip, INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network, and Patient Assessment Assistant Using Augmented Reality. Submitted two project proposals to Action Medical Research.
2017 – 2020	City Hospitals Sunderland (Webpage) From NHS Foundation Trust.
2017 – 2020	NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG (Webpage) NHS clinical commissioning groups in the North East UK. A project partner in my EPSRC healthcare proposal.
2017 – 2019	NVIDIA (Webpage) One of the largest graphics processing unit manufacturers in the world. A project partner in my project Durham University Space Research Centre. A project partner in my EPSRC cross-disciplinarity funding proposal.
2017 – 2019	NHS Innovation North (Webpage) A not-for-profit organization delivering a range of services for knowledge transfer. A project partner in my EPSRC healthcare proposal.
2017 – 2018	Lenovo (Webpage) A multinational public listed technology company and the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. A project partner in my EPSRC healthcare proposal.
2017 – 2018	Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (Webpage) One of the 52 fire rescue service in the UK, serving on Northeast England. A project partner in my EPSRC cross-disciplinarity funding proposal.
2017 – 2018	Dräger UK (Webpage) An international leader in the fields of medical and safety technology. A project partner in my EPSRC cross-disciplinarity funding proposal.
2016 – 2020	Indigo Multimedia (Webpage) Software development company focusing on healthcare products. The industry partner of my 2019 GX Project Grants Scheme project. Submitted a collaborative funding proposal for Biomedical Catalyst 2017. Submitted a collaborative funding proposal for Digital Health Technology Catalyst 2017.
2015 – 2016	ADL Smartcare Limited (Webpage) A Sheffield-based company providing healthcare software and hardware systems. Worked with my co-supervised MSc student (Xi Chen) to generate an industrial software application.
2014 – 2017	Faurecia (Webpage) A listed French global automotive supplier. Worked with my co-supervised PhD Pierre Plantard in ergonomic monitoring.
2013 – 2018	Kinesio UK (Webpage) An international healthcare and sports product company. A project partner in my 2014 EPSRC First Grant Scheme project.
2013 – 2016	Nine Health CIC (Webpage) A Sheffield-based consultant company in the healthcare sector. A project partner in my 2014 EPSRC First Grant Scheme project.
2013 – 2016	Cadence Performance (Webpage) A cycling training company in London. A project partner in my 2014 EPSRC First Grant Scheme project.