People | Prof. Hubert Shum's Research Team

2026 – Present	Jacob Walters PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2022 – Present	Jamie Stirling PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2025 – Present	Kaining Yao PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2026 – Present	Macauley Ward PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2021 – Present	Mridula Vijendran PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: computer vision, adaptive model bias, image generative models, image manipulation.
2025 – Present	Pranav Remesh PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Earth Observation.
2024 – Present	Ruisheng Han PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Computer Vision.
2022 – Present	Xiaotang Zhang PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Character Animation.
2025 – Present	Jin Meng PhD (Co-supervised with Dr George Alex Koulieris), Durham University .
2024 – Present	Jinyu Liu PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Effie Lai-Chong Law), Durham University .
2020 – Present	Jonathan Frawley PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Chris G. Willcocks), Durham University Research interests: Deep Learning.
2025 – Present	Michael Radin-Rutkowski PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Nikos Mavrakis), Durham University .
2022 – Present	Yasemin Bozdemir PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Effie Lai-Chong Law), Durham University Research interests: Virtual Reality, Digital Twin, Human-Computer Interaction, Educational Tecnology.
2024 – Present	Zikai Zhang PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Toby P. Breckon), Durham University .

Graduated PhD Students

2018 – 2022	Dr Daniel Organisciak PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Natural Language Generation, Multi-Agent Systems, Biological Sequence Modelling. Examiners: Dr Frederick W. B. Li, Prof. Yifeng Zeng Funded by Northumbria University.
2021 – 2024	Dr Francis Xiatian Zhang PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision, Digital Health, Health Informatics. Examiners: Dr Hansung Kim, Dr Stamos Katsigiannis Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh.
2020 – 2024	Dr Haozheng Zhang PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University . Examiners: Dr Hyung Jin Chang, Dr Frederick W. B. Li
2015 – 2019	Dr Jingtian Zhang PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: computer vision, computer graphics, motion analysis. Examiners: Prof. Tae-Kyun Kim, Martyn Amos Funded by Northumbria University Became a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham.
2020 – 2024	Dr Manli Zhu PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Computer Vision, Human Motion Analysis, Interaction Modelling. Examiners: Prof. Honghai Liu, Dr Ossama Alshabrawy Funded by Northumbria University.
2021 – 2025	Dr Ruochen Li PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University . Examiners: Mark Jones, Robert Lieck, Frederick W. B. Li Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University.
2016 – 2019	Dr Shanfeng Hu PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: machine learning, spectral methods, geometry, data mining. Examiners: Prof. Taku Komura, Prof. Longzhi Yang Funded by my 2015 Erasmus Mundus project Became a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University.
2021 – 2025	Dr Shuang Chen PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Image Restoration, Large Language Model. Examiners: Pui Anantrasirichai, Daniele Ravì, Junyan Hu Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University.
2021 – 2024	Dr Tanqiu Qiao PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University . Examiners: Michael Wray, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Kings College London.
2015 – 2018	Dr Yijun Shen PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Computer graphics, Animation, Artificial intelligence. Examiners: Prof. Adrian Hilton, Prof. Shaun Lawson Funded by Northumbria University Became a Research Engineer at Cambricon in China.
2021 – 2025	Dr Ziyi Chang PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Character Animation, Diffusion Model, Multi-Agent Modelling, Crowd Simulation. Examiners: Kianoush Nazarpour, Stuart James
2021 – 2024	Dr Abril Corona-Figueroa PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Chris G. Willcocks), Durham University Research interests: Computer Vision, Generative Modelling, Medical Imaging. Examiners: Prof. Tim Cootes, Dr Stamos Katsigiannis
2021 – 2026	Dr Jiaxu Liu PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Toby P. Breckon), Durham University Research interests: Computer Vision, Point Cloud. Examiners: Dr Bailin Deng, Dr Yang Long
2015 – 2018	Dr Jie Li PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Longzhi Yang), Northumbria University Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber Security and Forensics, Fuzzy System. Examiners: Prof. Daniel Neagu,Prof. Huseyin Seker, Funded by Northumbria University Became a Lecturer at Teesside University.
2011 – 2016	Dr Joseph Henry PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Taku Komura), University of Edinburgh .
2018 – 2022	Dr Kevin D. McCay PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Edmond S. L. Ho), Northumbria University Research interests: Motion Analysis, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Technology. Examiners: Prof. Yonghong Peng, Dr Kamlesh Mistry Funded by Northumbria University Collaborated with Royal Victoria Infirmary on a motion analysis research project.
2020 – 2024	Dr Li Li PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Toby P. Breckon), Durham University Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Analog In-Memory Computing, Deep Learning, Robotics. Examiners: Dr Oisin Mac Aodha, Dr Amir Atapour-Abarghouei Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Kings College London.
2010 – 2014	Dr Liuyang Zhou PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Howard Leung), City University of Hong Kong .
2020 – 2024	Dr Luca Crosato PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Chongfeng Wei), Northumbria University Research interests: Machine Learning, General Artificial Intelligence. Funded by the ERDF Intensive Industrial Innovation Programme.
2013 – 2017	Dr Naoya Iwamoto PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Shigeo Morishima), Waseda University Research interests: Computer Graphics. Became a Senior Researcher at Huawei Japan (see the video about his work).
2014 – 2017	Dr Pierre Plantard PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Franck Multon), Rennes 2 University Research interests: Biomechanics, Ergonomics, Virtual Human, Motion Capture, Virtual Reality. Collaborated with Faurecia, a French car production company, in ergonomic monitoring Founded a start-up company Moovency that commercialised his PhD project.
2019 – 2022	Dr Qi Feng PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Shigeo Morishima), Waseda University Research interests: computer graphics, computer vision, deep learning, mixed reality.
2015 – 2019	Dr Yao Tan PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Longzhi Yang), Northumbria University . Examiners: Prof. Zhaojie Ju, Dr Honglei Li
2013 – 2016	Dr Zhiguang Liu PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Howard Leung), City University of Hong Kong Research interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Became a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in INRIA, France.

Graduated Masters Students

2016 – 2017	Wakana Asahina MSc (Co-supervised with Prof. Shigeo Morishima), Waseda University .
2015 – 2016	Xi Chen MSc (Co-supervised with Prof. Kianoush Nazarpour), Newcastle University . Collaborated with ADL Smartcare Limited on developing a healthcare application.
2021 – 2021	Ben Rainbow MEng (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2022 – 2022	Edmund J. C. Findlay MEng (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .

Completed Research Staff

2019 – 2020	Dr John Hartley Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Machine Learning, AI, Privacy, Numerical modelling. Funded by my 2019 Ministry of Defence (DASA) project.
2015 – 2017	Dr Lining Zhang Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University . Funded by my 2014 EPSRC project.
2017 – 2018	Dr Pengpeng Hu Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Anthropometry, 3D body scanning, Textiles and Clothing, 3D point clouds, Wearables. Funded by my 2015 Erasmus Mundus project.
2023 – 2024	Dr Thomas Winterbottom Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Durham University . Funded by my 2023 Innovate UK project.
2016 – 2017	Dr Worasak Rueangsirarak Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Human Motion Analysis, Healthcare Technology, Machine Learning, Data Mining. Funded by my 2015 Erasmus Mundus project.
2017 – 2018	Dr Ying Huang Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Intelligent Optimization. Funded by my 2015 Erasmus Mundus project.
2018 – 2019	Dr Yuan Hu Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University . Funded by the China Scholarship Council.
2019 – 2019	Dr Bingzhang Hu Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Funded by my 2019 GX project Collaborated with Indigo Multimedia, a healthcare multimedia SME.
2012 – 2012	Chris Blythe Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), University of Worcester . Became a Lecturer at the University of Worcester.
2021 – 2021	Matthew Poyser Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Computer Vision, Neural Architecture Search, Image Compression, Detection. Funded by my 2020 Security Technology Research Innovation Grants Programme project Collaborated with General Autonomy Ltd., a start-up drone company.
2025 – 2025	Ruochen Li Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), Durham University . Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University.
2025 – 2025	Ziyi Chang Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research interests: Character Animation, Diffusion Model, Multi-Agent Modelling, Crowd Simulation.
2017 – 2018	Shoujiang Xu Researcher (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research interests: Machine Learning, Intelligent Algorithm, Robot Path Planning. Funded by the Jiangsu government in China.

Completed Visiting/Internship Students

2023 – 2024	Dr Juan Zhang Associate Professor (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Shaanxi Normal University .
2016 – 2016	Chayuti Mekurai PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Mae Fah Luang University Research interests: Applied Computing and AI, Datascience, Data analytics, Internet of Thing.
2018 – 2018	Hindol Bhattacharya PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Jadavpur University . Funded by my 2017 Royal Society project.
2024 – 2024	Kanglei Zhou PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Beihang University Research interests: Computer Vision, Virtual/Augmented Reality.
2017 – 2020	Naoki Nozawa PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Waseda University .
2019 – 2020	Qianhui Men PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), City University of Hong Kong Research interests: Motion Analysis, Multi-Modal Medical Imaging, Spatial-temporal Representation Learning.
2020 – 2020	Sergio Cebollada PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Miguel Hernández University of Elche .
2020 – 2020	Vicente Roman PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Miguel Hernández University of Elche .
2021 – 2023	Zhengzhi Lu PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Xi'an Jiaotong University Research interests: Computer Science.
2018 – 2019	Ayano Kaneda MSc (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Waseda University Research interests: Elastic Body simulation, Fluid simulation, Machine learning.
2021 – 2022	Yoshiki Kubotani MSc (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Waseda University .
2018 – 2018	Alexandre Bonneau MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), ENS Rennes .
2021 – 2021	Chenyu Tim Zhang MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Durham University .
2018 – 2019	Katerina Jandova MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Czech Technical University in Prague .
2016 – 2017	Maxim Bouchee MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), University of Toulon .
2018 – 2018	Yo Murakami MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Hokkaido University .
2018 – 2019	Marco Marchetti BSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Marche Polytechnic University .

Staff Members

Research Students

Graduated PhD Students

Graduated Masters Students

Completed Research Staff

Completed Visiting/Internship Students