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 topic: Neural attention mechanisms for robust and interpretable feature representation learning. 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 topic: Clinical Video Analysis with Geometric Feature Enhanced Deep Learning. 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 Research topic: Human Movement Disorders Analysis with Graph Neural Networks. Examiners: Dr Hyung Jin Chang, Dr Frederick W. B. Li
2015 – 2019	Dr Jingtian Zhang, PhD (Co-supervised with ), Northumbria University Research topic: Learning discriminative features for human motion understanding. 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 topic: Spatial representation learning for human-centric image and video understanding. Examiners: Prof. Honghai Liu, Dr Ossama Alshabrawy Funded by Northumbria University.
2021 – 2025	Dr Ruochen Li, PhD (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research topic: Spatial-Temporal Graph Representation Learning for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction. 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 topic: Metric representations for shape analysis and synthesis. 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 topic: Advancing Representation Learning and Generative Models for Deep Learning-Based Image Inpainting. 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 Research topic: Geometry-informed graph neural networks for multi-person human-object interaction recognition in videos. 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 topic: Human motion analysis and synthesis in computer graphics. 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 topic: Learning Styles in 3D Data for Reconstruction and Synthesis. Examiners: Kianoush Nazarpour, Stuart James
2021 – 2024	Dr Abril Corona-Figueroa, PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Chris G. Willcocks), Durham University Research topic: 2D to 3D Translation with Medical Image Applications. Examiners: Prof. Tim Cootes, Dr Stamos Katsigiannis
2021 – 2026	Dr Jiaxu Liu, PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Toby P. Breckon), Durham University Research topic: Understanding 3D Point Cloud via Unsupervised Learning, Diffusion-based and Frequency-guided Generative Deep Learning Architectures. Examiners: Dr Bailin Deng, Dr Yang Long
2015 – 2018	Dr Jie Li, PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Longzhi Yang), Northumbria University Research topic: Fuzzy interpolation systems with knowledge extraction and adaptation. 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 Research topic: Interactive control of multi-agent motion in virtual environments.
2018 – 2022	Dr Kevin D. McCay, PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Edmond S. L. Ho), Northumbria University Research topic: Automated early prediction of cerebral palsy: interpretable pose-based assessment for the identification of abnormal infant movements. 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 topic: On Deep Learning for Geometric and Semantic Scene Understanding using On-Vehicle 3D LiDAR. 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 Research topic: Modeling of Single Character Motions with Temporal Sparse Representation and Gaussian Processes for Human Motion Retrieval and Synthesis.
2020 – 2024	Dr Luca Crosato, PhD (Co-supervised with Dr Chongfeng Wei), Northumbria University Research topic: Deep learning for social-aware autonomous vehicle-pedestrian interaction. Funded by the ERDF Intensive Industrial Innovation Programme.
2013 – 2017	Dr Naoya Iwamoto, PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Shigeo Morishima), Waseda University Research topic: Physics-based animation beyond capture data. 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 topic: Posture reconstruction for ergonomics applications. 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 topic: Improving mixed reality with multi-task scene understanding and data augmentation.
2015 – 2019	Dr Yao Tan, PhD (Co-supervised with Prof. Longzhi Yang), Northumbria University Research topic: Curvature-based sparse rule base generation for fuzzy rule interpolation. 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 topic: High Quality Compatible Triangulations with Inconsistent Rotation and Shape Self-Occlusion Enhancement for Planar Shape Morphing. 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 Research topic: Automatic dance generation with sign language.
2015 – 2016	Xi Chen, MSc (Co-supervised with Prof. Kianoush Nazarpour), Newcastle University Research topic: Dimensions estimation with depth images provided by Kinect. 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 Research interests: Computer Vision. Became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University.
2025 – 2025	Ziyi Chang, Research Assistant (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research topic: Learning styles in 3D data for reconstruction and synthesis.
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 .
2025 – 2026	Dr Yuxin Zhang, Associate Professor (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Jilin University Research interests: Automated Driving, Systems Safety, FuSa & SOTIF, AI Safety.
2016 – 2016	Chayuti Mekurai, PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Mae Fah Luang University Research topic: Balance analysis for stroke patients.
2018 – 2018	Hindol Bhattacharya, PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Jadavpur University Research topic: Emotion analysis with RGBD-camera for e-learning. 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 Research topic: Car shape reconstruction from 2D sketches.
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 Research topic: Vision-based locoalization for robots.
2020 – 2020	Vicente Roman, PhD (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Miguel Hernández University of Elche Research topic: Localization with deep learning.
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 topic: Physical simulations of snow.
2021 – 2022	Yoshiki Kubotani, MSc (Visiting) (Co-supervised with ), Waseda University .
2018 – 2018	Alexandre Bonneau, MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), ENS Rennes Research topic: Crowd analysis with LSTM.
2021 – 2021	Chenyu Tim Zhang, MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Durham University Research topic: 3D face shape analysis for cleft lips surgeries.
2018 – 2019	Katerina Jandova, MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Czech Technical University in Prague Research topic: Multi-cameras person re-identification.
2016 – 2017	Maxim Bouchee, MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), University of Toulon Research topic: Fall detection with motion classification techniques.
2018 – 2018	Yo Murakami, MSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Hokkaido University Research topic: Creating shadow art with 3D objects by genertic algorithms.
2018 – 2019	Marco Marchetti, BSc (Internship) (Co-supervised with ), Marche Polytechnic University .

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Graduated Masters Students

Completed Research Staff

Completed Visiting/Internship Students