Professor Po Yang
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
School of Computer Science
Professor of Pervasive Intelligence
Research Innovation Impact Lead
Head of the Pervasive Computing research group
po.yang@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (CS)
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Professor Po Yang
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Professor Po Yang is Professor of Pervasive Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he also serves as Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. He obtained his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Wuhan University, China, an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Staffordshire University. Since 2015, Professor Yang has established and led successful research teams at Liverpool John Moores University (2015–2019) and subsequently at the University of Sheffield (2019–present). He also serves as an Independent Scientific Advisor for the BridgeAI programme at the Alan Turing Institute.
Professor Yang has extensive research expertise in pervasive and mobile intelligence, conducting interdisciplinary research across machine learning, pervasive computing, smart sensing, and data science. Since 2019, he has secured over £2.5 million as Principal Investigator and coordinated research projects worth more than £6 million, funded by organisations including Innovate UK, BBSRC, STFC, EPSRC, Research England, and industry partners. He has published more than 100 journal papers and over 80 IEEE/ACM conference papers, with more than 9,600 citations and an h-index of 47. His publications include 43 IEEE Transactions and journal papers, contributions to leading conferences such as AAAI, KDD, and CIKM, and four ESI Highly Cited Papers. His work has received several recognitions, including the 2022 Best Paper Award from the IEEE IES Society TC-II and the 2025 Best Paper Award at IEEE INDIN 2025.Professor Yang has successfully supervised more than 20 PhD students as Director of Studies, many of whom have progressed to careers in academia and industry. Professor Yang currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Array (Elsevier) and Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Scientific Reports.
- Research interests
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Pervasive data mining, machine learning, image analysis, and precision agriculture.
- Publications
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Books
- Advances in Understanding Insect Pests Affecting Wheat and Other Cereals.
Journal articles
- Adapting to dissimilar tasks for continual learning via gradient norm regularisation. Neurocomputing. View this article in WRRO
- The Need for Demonstrated Clinical Translational Evidence in Submissions to the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 14, vi-xi.
- Aphid-YOLO: A lightweight detection model for real-time identification and counting of aphids in complex field environments. IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics. View this article in WRRO
- SPOT: An efficient training-free task similarity quantification method for continual learning. Pattern Recognition Letters. View this article in WRRO
- PEZEGO: A precision agriculture system based
on large language models and internet of things
for pest management. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Joint image synthesis and fusion with converted features for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 156(Part B). View this article in WRRO
- An interpretable deep learning approach for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using gene expression data. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. View this article in WRRO
- Secured cost-effective anonymous federated learning with proxied privacy enhancement for personal devices. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-scale and multi-level feature assessment framework for classification of Parkinson’s disease state from short-term motor tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 72(4), 1211-1224. View this article in WRRO
- PestGPT: Leveraging large language models and IoT for timely and customized recommendation generation in sustainable pest management. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 8(1), 26-33. View this article in WRRO
- Precision fertilisation via spatio-temporal tensor multi-task learning and one-shot learning. IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics, 3(1), 190-199. View this article in WRRO
- EGDNet: an efficient glomerular detection network for multiple anomalous pathological feature in glomerulonephritis. The Visual Computer, 41(4), 2817-2834.
- Can artificial intelligence be integrated into pest monitoring schemes to help achieve sustainable agriculture? An entomological, management and computational perspective. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 27(1), 8-17. View this article in WRRO
- Multimodal wearable intelligence for dementia care in Healthcare 4.0: a survey. Information Systems Frontiers, 27(1), 197-214. View this article in WRRO
- Enhanced conditional GAN for high-quality synthetic tabular data generation in mobile-based cardiovascular healthcare. Sensors, 24(23). View this article in WRRO
- An effective farmer-centred mobile intelligence solution using lightweight deep learning for integrated wheat pest management. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 42. View this article in WRRO
- Informative relationship multi-task learning: exploring pairwise contribution across tasks’ sharing knowledge. Knowledge-Based Systems, 301. View this article in WRRO
- Selecting and evaluating key MDS-UPDRS activities using wearable devices for Parkinson’s disease self-assessment. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, 1, 177-189. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-scale feature and multi-channel selection toward Parkinson’s disease diagnosis with EEG. Sensors, 24(14). View this article in WRRO
- AI-enhanced digital technologies for myopia management: advancements, challenges, and future prospects. The Visual Computer, 40(6), 3871-3887.
- Thresholds and prediction models to support the sustainable management of herbivorous insects in wheat. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 44(29). View this article in WRRO
- Integrating visualised automatic temporal relation graph into multi-task learning for Alzheimer's disease progression prediction. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(10), 5206-5220. View this article in WRRO
- Unsupervised transfer aided lifelong regression for learning new tasks without target output. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(9), 4981-4995. View this article in WRRO
- Observer-based adaptive finite-time neural control for constrained nonlinear systems with actuator saturation compensation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73. View this article in WRRO
- Wearable-sensor-based weakly supervised Parkinson’s disease assessment with data augmentation. Sensors, 24(4). View this article in WRRO
- Guest Editorial of the Special section on Emerging Technologies and Applications of Consumer Electronics for Healthy and Sustainable Life. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 70(1), 2378-2381.
- Lifelong learning meets dynamic processes: an emerging streaming process prediction framework with delayed process output measurement. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 32(2), 384-398. View this article in WRRO
- A holistic multi-source transfer learning approach using wearable sensors for personalized daily activity recognition. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 10(1), 1459-1471. View this article in WRRO
- A deep graph network with multiple similarity for user clustering in human–computer interaction. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 20(2), 1-20. View this article in WRRO
- Antisaturation fixed-time attitude tracking control based low-computation learning for uncertain quadrotor UAVs with external disturbances. Aerospace Science and Technology, 142, 108668-108668.
- Corrigendum to ’Sustainable fertilisation management via tensor multi-task learning using multi-dimensional agricultural data’. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 35, 100508-100508.
- Observer-based adaptive fuzzy finite-time attitude control for quadrotor UAVs. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 59(6), 8637-8654. View this article in WRRO
- Self-supervised knowledge mining from unlabeled data for bearing fault diagnosis under limited annotations. Measurement, 220. View this article in WRRO
- Sustainable fertilisation management via tensor multi-task learning using multi-dimensional agricultural data. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 34. View this article in WRRO
- Efficient adaptive deep gradient RBF network for multi-output nonlinear and nonstationary industrial processes. Journal of Process Control, 126, 1-11. View this article in WRRO
- Efficient multi-task learning with adaptive temporal structure for progression prediction. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23), 16305-16320. View this article in WRRO
- Editorial: deep learning in crop diseases and insect pests. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14.
- T2L: Trans-transfer Learning for few-shot fine-grained visual categorization with extended adaptation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 264. View this article in WRRO
- A novel feature relearning method for automatic sleep staging based on single-channel EEG. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 9(1), 41-50. View this article in WRRO
- Privacy-Preserving-Enabled Lightweight COVID-19 Simulation Model for Mobile Intelligent Application. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(8), 6742-6755.
- Explainable tensor multi-task ensemble learning based on brain structure variation for Alzheimer's disease dynamic prediction. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 11, 1-12. View this article in WRRO
- A multi-classification accessment framework for reproducible evaluation of multimodal learning in Alzheimer's disease. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 21(4), 559-572. View this article in WRRO
- Pest region detection in complex backgrounds via contextual information and multi-scale mixed attention mechanism. Agriculture, 12(8).
- Video-based table tennis tracking and trajectory prediction using convolutional neural networks. Fractals, 30(05). View this article in WRRO
- Controllable model compression for roadside camera depth estimation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Experimental protocol designed to employ Nd:YAG laser surgery for anterior chamber glaucoma detection via UBM. IET Image Processing, 16(8), 2171-2179. View this article in WRRO
- Mixed-weight neural bagging for detecting m6A modifications in SARS-CoV-2 RNA sequencing. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 69(8), 2557-2568. View this article in WRRO
- Activity graph based convolutional neural network for physical activity recognition using acceleration and gyroscope data. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(10), 6619-6630. View this article in WRRO
- Improving water pressure measurement using temperature-compensated wireless passive SAW bidirectional RDL pressure sensor. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 71. View this article in WRRO
- Automatic detection and classification system of domestic waste via multi-model cascaded convolutional neural network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(1), 163-173. View this article in WRRO
- Effective multilayer hybrid classification approach for automatic bridge health assessment on large-scale uncertain data. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 24. View this article in WRRO
- A novel sub-Kmeans based on co-training approach by transforming single-view into multi-view. Future Generation Computer Systems, 125, 831-843.
- Deep learning based automatic multi-class wild pest monitoring approach using hybrid global and local activated features. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(11), 7589-7598. View this article in WRRO
- Optic disc and cup segmentation through fuzzy broad learning system for glaucoma screening. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(4), 2476-2487. View this article in WRRO
- Reservoir hosts prediction for COVID-19 by hybrid transfer learning model. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 117.
- Modified GAN-cAED to minimize risk of unintentional liver major vessels cutting by controlled segmentation using CTA/SPET-CT. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(12), 7991-8002. View this article in WRRO
- A weighted multi-feature transfer learning framework for intelligent medical decision making. Applied Soft Computing, 105. View this article in WRRO
- AgriPest: A large-scale domain-specific benchmark dataset for practical agricultural pest detection in the wild. Sensors, 21(5). View this article in WRRO
- The effect of multiple interventions to balance healthcare demand for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks: a modelling study. Scientific Reports, 11. View this article in WRRO
- A novel word similarity measure method for IoT-enabled Healthcare applications. Future Generation Computer Systems, 114, 209-218.
- Cost-effective broad learning-based ultrasound biomicroscopy with 3D reconstruction for ocular anterior segmentation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80(28-29), 35105-35122.
- Automated decision support system for lung cancer detection and classification via enhanced RFCN with multilayer fusion RPN. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(12), 7791-7801. View this article in WRRO
- Real-time deep reinforcement learning based vehicle routing and navigation. Applied Soft Computing, 96. View this article in WRRO
- Quantum-enhanced multiobjective large-scale optimization via parallelism. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 57. View this article in WRRO
- Feasibility study of mitigation and suppression strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in London and Wuhan. PLoS ONE, 15(8). View this article in WRRO
- OFF-eNET: An optimally fused fully end-to-end network for automatic dense volumetric 3D intracranial blood vessels segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29, 7192-7202. View this article in WRRO
- The effect of multiple interventions to balance healthcare demand for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks: a modelling study.
- SPST-CNN: Spatial pyramid based searching and tagging of liver’s intraoperative live views via CNN for minimal invasive surgery. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 106, 103430-103430.
- Multi-objective 3D topology optimization of next generation wireless data center network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(5), 3597-3605. View this article in WRRO
- VoxRec : hybrid convolutional neural network for active 3D object recognition. IEEE Access, 8, 70969-70980.
- Feasibility of Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK by Rolling Interventions.
- Feasibility Study of Mitigation and Suppression Strategies for Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in London and Wuhan.
- A dimension-reduction based multilayer perception method for supporting the medical decision making. Pattern Recognition Letters, 131, 15-22. View this article in WRRO
- An accurate multi-modal biometric identification system for person identification via fusion of face and finger print. World Wide Web, 23(2), 1299-1317.
- An overview of data fusion techniques for internet of things enabled physical activity recognition and measure. Information Fusion, 55, 269-280.
- Fusing multi-scale context-aware information representation for automatic in-field pest detection and recognition. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 169.
- Epilepsy seizure prediction on EEG using common spatial pattern and convolutional neural network. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 24(2), 465-474.
- DUAPM: An Effective Dynamic Micro-Blogging User Activity Prediction Model Towards Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(8), 5317-5326.
- Experimental analysis and evaluation of wide residual networks based agricultural disease identification in smart agriculture system. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019(1).
- Comparison and Modelling of Country-level Microblog User and Activity in Cyber-physical-social Systems Using Weibo and Twitter Data. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 10(6), 1-24.
- Cloud-Based Automated Clinical Decision Support System for Detection and Diagnosis of Lung Cancer in Chest CT. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 8, ---.
- Publisher Correction: Automatic Choroid Layer Segmentation from Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Deep Learning. Scientific Reports, 9(1).
- Automatic choroid layer segmentation from optical coherence tomography images using deep learning. Scientific Reports, 9(1).
- Multiobjective feature selection for microarray data via distributed parallel algorithms. Future Generation Computer Systems, 100, 952-981.
- Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition Using Depth Maps and Postures. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(9), 1806-1819.
- Efficient deep CNN-based fire detection and localization in video surveillance applications. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(7), 1419-1434.
- Fast and accurate retinal identification system : using retinal blood vasculature landmarks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(7), 4099-4110.
- A stacked multi-granularity convolution denoising auto-encoder. IEEE Access, 7, 83888-83899.
- Knowledge graph-based image classification refinement. IEEE Access, 7, 57678-57690.
- PestNet : an end-to-end deep learning approach for large-scale multi-class pest detection and classification. IEEE Access, 7, 45301-45312.
- Deep gesture interaction for augmented anatomy learning. International Journal of Information Management, 45, 328-336.
- A hybrid hierarchical framework for gym physical activity recognition and measurement using wearable sensors. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 1384-1393.
- Distributed consensus algorithm for events detection in cyber-physical systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 2299-2308.
- 3-D deployment optimization for heterogeneous wireless directional sensor networks on smart city. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(3), 1798-1808.
- GAN-based semi-supervised learning approach for clinical decision support in health-IoT platform. IEEE Access, 7, 8048-8057.
- A 3-D security modeling platform for social IoT environments. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5(4), 1174-1188.
- 3-D multiobjective deployment of an industrial wireless sensor network for maritime applications utilizing a distributed parallel algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(12), 5487-5495.
- User profiling in elderly healthcare services in China : scalper detection. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22(6), 1796-1806.
- The Internet of Things (IoT) : informatics methods for IoT-enabled health care. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 154-156.
- Examining sensor-based physical activity recognition and monitoring for healthcare using Internet of Things : a systematic review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 138-153.
- Differential evolution-based 3-D directional wireless sensor network deployment optimization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(5), 3594-3605.
- Distributed parallel cooperative coevolutionary multi-objective large-scale immune algorithm for deployment of wireless sensor networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 82, 256-267.
- Improving utility of GPU in accelerating industrial applications with user-centered automatic code translation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(4), 1347-1360.
- Secure and robust fragile watermarking scheme for medical images. IEEE Access, 6, 10269-10278.
- Speed control of mobile chargers serving wireless rechargeable networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 242-249.
- Open knowledge accessing method in IoT-based hospital information system for medical record enrichment. IEEE Access, 6, 15202-15211.
- Measuring web service security in the era of Internet of Things. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 305-315.
- Video delivery networks : challenges, solutions and future directions. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 332-341.
- Lifelogging data validation model for Internet of Things enabled personalized healthcare. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(1), 50-64.
- Effectively measuring respiratory flow with portable pressure data using back propagation neural network. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 6.
- PMU placement in electric transmission networks for reliable state estimation against false data injection attacks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 4(6), 1978-1986.
- Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical document for large-scale digitisation. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853.
- Advanced internet of things for personalised healthcare systems : a survey. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 41, 132-149.
- Multiple density maps information fusion for effectively assessing intensity pattern of lifelogging physical activity. Neurocomputing, 220, 199-209.
- Topologies for combining the internet of things and serious games. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 31(5), 2685-2696.
- Ellipse fitting model for improving the effectiveness of life‐logging physical activity measures in an Internet of Things environment. IET Networks, 5(5), 107-113.
- Guest Editorial. IET Networks, 5(5), 105-106.
- GSWO : a programming model for GPU-enabled parallelization of sliding window operations in image processing. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 47, 332-345.
- Evaluating automatically parallelized versions of the support vector machine. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 28(7), 2274-2294.
- PRLS-INVES : a general experimental investigation strategy for high accuracy and precision in passive RFID location systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2(2), 159-167.
- Efficient particle filter localization algorithm in dense passive RFID tag environment. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(10), 5641-5651.
- Parallel centerline extraction on the GPU. Computers & Graphics, 41, 72-83.
- Improving passive radio-frequency identification localisation precision with moving direction estimation-based feature improvement. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 4(1), 17-26.
- Efficient object localization using sparsely distributed passive RFID tags. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 60(12), 5914-5924.
- Efficient particle filter algorithm for ultrasonic sensor-based 2D range-only simultaneous localisation and mapping application. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2(4), 394-401.
- A sensor-based SLAM algorithm for camera tracking in virtual studio. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 5(2), 152-162.
- TARAG: A Time-aware Retrieval-augmented Generation Framework for Supporting Precision Crop Pest and Disease Management through Large Language Models. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
- A Survey of Multimodal Fusion for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction: A New Taxonomy and Trends. Information Fusion.
- PDWearML: Leveraging Daily Activities for Fast Parkinson’s Disease Severity Assessment with Wearable Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
Book chapters
- Representative UPDRS Features of Single Wearable Sensor for Severity Classification of Parkinson’s Disease, Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 124-136). Springer Nature Switzerland
- Randomized Multi-task Feature Learning Approach for Modelling and Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression, Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 52-68). Springer Nature Switzerland
- GPU-based Grass Simulation with Accurate Blade Reconstruction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 288-300). Springer International Publishing
- Dynamic Shadow Rendering with Shadow Volume Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 96-106). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings
- Multivariate Time-Series Fusion for Parkinson's Disease Severity Classification. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 6110-6116), 15 December 2025 - 18 December 2025.
- TMTCIL-st: Spatio-Temporal Tensor Multi-Task Continuous Incremental Learning for Multi-Fertiliser Management. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) (pp 1-8), 26 March 2025 - 28 March 2025.
- Adaptive multi-cognitive objective temporal task approach for predicting AD progression. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 1933-1938). Lisbon, Portugal, 3 December 2024 - 3 December 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-Instance Learning for Parkinson’s Tremor Level Detection with Learnable Discriminative Pool. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 6008-6015), 3 December 2024 - 6 December 2024.
- Adaptive Domain-Adversarial Multi-Instance Learning for Wearable-Sensor-Based Parkinson’s Disease Severity Assessment. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 6028-6035), 3 December 2024 - 6 December 2024.
- Medical Signals Augmentation for Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis in Low-Resource Settings Across Time, Activity and Patients. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Vol. 00 (pp 5984-5991), 3 December 2024 - 3 December 2024.
- Learning Interpretable Continuous Representation for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 6545-6552), 3 December 2024 - 6 December 2024.
- Advancing Agricultural Decision-Making with a Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Large Language Models for Sustainable Pest Management. 2024 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1-6), 18 August 2024 - 20 August 2024.
- FLARES: A Framework for Large-Scale Agent-Based Rapid Epidemic Simulation. 2024 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1-6), 18 August 2024 - 20 August 2024.
- ParallelFarm: An AI-Enabled Sustainable Farming Management System for Carbon Neutrality. 2024 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1-6), 18 August 2024 - 20 August 2024.
- A multi-target multi-task approach based on correlated multiple cognitive scores for AD progression prediction. 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp 1-8), 30 June 2024 - 5 July 2024.
- Integrating Human Mobility Quantification into Epidemics Prediction for Effectively Assessing Impact of Transportation. 2024 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) (pp 1-6), 18 June 2024 - 21 June 2024.
- Spatio-temporal similarity measure based multi-task learning for predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression using MRI data. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 940-943). Istanbul, Turkey, 5 December 2023 - 5 December 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Integrating automatic temporal relation graph into multi-task learning for Alzheimer’s disease progression prediction. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 3265-3272). Istanbul, Turkey, 5 December 2023 - 5 December 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Empirical analysis of regularized multi-task learning for modelling Alzheimer’s disease progression. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (pp 4444-4451). Istanbul and Turkey, 5 December 2023 - 5 December 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Lightweight Workloads in Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Few-shot Learning. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning (pp 21-26)
- Tabular Generative Adversarial Networks with an Enhanced Sampling Approach for High-Quality Cardiovascular Disease Dataset Generation. 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 2595-2600), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- Advanced Machine-Learning Technologies for Coronary Artery Disease Prediction Using Heterogeneous Data. 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 54-61), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- A Comparative Analysis of Federated Learning Techniques on On-Demand Platforms in Supporting Modern Web Browser Applications. 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 2601-2606), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- Quantifying Nematodes through Images: Datasets, Models, and Baselines of Deep Learning. 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 2448-2455), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- Weak regression enhanced lifelong learning for improved performance and reduced training data. CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp 1587-1596). Birmingham, United Kingdom, 21 October 2023 - 21 October 2023. View this article in WRRO
- IoTBDH-2023: The 5th International Workshop on Internet of Things of Big Data for Healthcare. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp 5285-5288)
- Communication Efficient on Symmetric and Asymmetric Encrypted Anonymous Federated Learning. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cryptography, Informatics, and Cybersecurity (ICoCICs) (pp 133-138), 22 August 2023 - 24 August 2023.
- Automatic Temporal Relation in Multi-Task Learning. Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Automatic Generation of Visual Concept-based Explanations for Pest Recognition. 2023 IEEE 21st International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1-6), 18 July 2023 - 20 July 2023.
- Robust temporal smoothness in multi-task learning. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, Vol. 37(9) (pp 11426-11434). Washington DC, USA View this article in WRRO
- PestDSS: An Integrated Decision Support System for Sustainable Pest Management in Agriculture. 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) (pp 1-6), 19 June 2023 - 21 June 2023.
- Adaptive Low-Computation Neural Network Control of Constrained Nonlinear Systems and Its Application to Agricultural Drones. 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) (pp 1-6), 19 June 2023 - 21 June 2023.
- Up-sampling active learning: an activity recognition method for Parkinson's disease patients. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Vol. 488(1). Thessaloniki, Greece, 12 December 2022 - 12 December 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Distributed Training for Speech Recognition using Local Knowledge Aggregation and Knowledge Distillation in Heterogeneous Systems. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (pp 64-70)
- Modeling Alzheimer's disease progression via amalgamated magnitude-direction brain structure variation quantification and tensor multi-task learning. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (pp 2735-2742). Las Vegas, NV, USA, 6 December 2022 - 6 December 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Spatio-temporal Tensor Multi-Task Learning for Precision Fertilisation with Real-world Agricultural Data. IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp 1-6), 17 October 2022 - 20 October 2022.
- Multi-task Learning with Adaptive Global Temporal Structure for Predicting Alzheimer's Disease Progression. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 2743-2752)
- Lightweight Object Detection Model with Data Augmentation for Tiny Pest Detection. 2022 IEEE 20th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 233-238), 25 July 2022 - 28 July 2022.
- Spatio-temporal Tensor Multi-Task Learning for Predicting Alzheimer's Disease in a Longitudinal study. 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 979-985), 11 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
- Analytic Correlation Penalty with Variable Window in Multi-task Learning Disease Progression Model. 2022 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp 687-691), 14 December 2022 - 16 December 2022.
- Analysing and Evaluating Complementarity of Multi-Modal Data Fusion in AD Diagnosis. 2022 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp 835-840), 14 December 2022 - 16 December 2022.
- Tensor Multi-Task Learning for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression using MRI data with Spatio-temporal Similarity Measurement. 2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1-8), 21 July 2021 - 23 July 2021.
- Modeling Disease Progression Flexibly with Nonlinear Disease Structure via Multi-task Learning. 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp 366-373), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- Activity Selection to Distinguish Healthy People from Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using I-DA. 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp 66-73), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- Spatio-temporal Tensor Multi- Task Learning for Precision fertilization. 2021 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC/CIT/DSCI/SmartCNS) (pp 398-405), 20 December 2021 - 22 December 2021.
- Examing and Evaluating Dimension Reduction Algorithms for Classifying Alzheimer’s Diseases using Gene Expression Data. 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp 687-693), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- Rolling interventions for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in the UK to reduce healthcare demand. Proceeding of 2020 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: HEALTH DAY. Online conference, 22 August 2020 - 22 August 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Human activity recognition based on triaxial accelerometer using multi-feature weighted ensemble. 2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 561-566), 20 July 2020 - 23 July 2020.
- Multi-source Ensemble Transfer Approach for Medical Text Auxiliary Diagnosis. 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) (pp 474-479), 28 October 2019 - 30 October 2019.
- Deep Learning based Automatic Approach using Hybrid Global and Local Activated Features towards Large-scale Multi-class Pest Monitoring. 2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1507-1510), 22 July 2019 - 25 July 2019.
- Automatic Computer Aided System for Lung Cancer in Chest CTs Using MD-RFCN Combined with Tri-Level Region Proposal Network. 2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp 1377-1380), 22 July 2019 - 25 July 2019.
- Experimental Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks Performance for Physical Activity Recognition Using Belt and Wristband Devices. 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 2492-2495), 23 July 2019 - 27 July 2019.
- A hybrid hierarchical framework for free weight exercise recognition and intensity measurement with accelerometer and ECG data fusion. 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Honolulu, HI, USA, 18 July 2018 - 21 July 2018.
- SAW Delay Line Based IoT Smart Sensing in Water Distribution System. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS) (pp 1474-1478), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- Experimental analysis of cost-effective mobile sensing technologies for activity analytics in elderly care. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS) (pp 1442-1448), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle Route Optimization in SUMO. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS) (pp 1468-1473), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- Effective Use of Data Science Toward Early Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS) (pp 1455-1461), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- Using parallel particle swarm optimization for RFID reader-to-reader anti-collision. 2018 13th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) (pp 1250-1254), 31 May 2018 - 2 June 2018.
- Comparison Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms to Rank Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factors by Importance. 2018 11th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) (pp 1-11), 2 September 2018 - 5 September 2018.
- Internet of Things Enabled Technologies for Behaviour Analytics in Elderly Person Care: A Survey. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) (pp 863-870), 21 June 2017 - 23 June 2017.
- A Survey on Urban Traffic Optimisation for Sustainable and Resilient Transportation Network. 2016 9th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) (pp 233-238), 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
- A Survey on Quantitative Evaluation of Web Service Security. 2016 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA (pp 715-721), 23 August 2016 - 26 August 2016.
- A Survey on Quantitative Evaluation of Web Service Security. 2016 IEEE TRUSTCOM/BIGDATASE/ISPA (pp 715-721)
- Improving the Validity of Lifelogging Physical Activity Measures in an Internet of Things Environment. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (pp 2309-2314), 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- A Survey of Physical Activity Monitoring and Assessment Using Internet of Things Technology. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (pp 2353-2358), 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- Life-Logging Data Aggregation Solution for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Research and Collaboration. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (pp 2315-2320), 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- Evaluation of Autoparallelization Toolkits for Commodity GPUs (pp 447-457)
- MyHealthAvatar: personalized and empowerment health services through Internet of Things technologies. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", 3 November 2014 - 5 November 2014.
- GPU-ASIFT: A fast fully affine-invariant feature extraction algorithm. 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS) (pp 474-481), 1 July 2013 - 5 July 2013.
- Accelerating colonic polyp detection using commodity graphics hardware. 2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA) (pp 1-6), 20 January 2013 - 22 January 2013.
- Grid-based modelling and correction of arbitrarily warped historical document images for large-scale digitisation. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (pp 106-111)
- SLAM Algorithm for 2D Object Trajectory Tracking based on RFID Passive Tags. 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID (pp 165-172), 16 April 2008 - 17 April 2008.
- A Localization Algorithm for Mobile Robots in RFID System. 2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 21 September 2007 - 25 September 2007.
- A Hybrid Marker-Based Camera Tracking Approach in Augmented Reality. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (pp 622-627), 15 April 2007 - 17 April 2007.
- RFID tag infrastructures for camera tracking in virtual studio environment. IET 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007), Vol. 2007 (pp 26-26)
- Privacy Enhanced Federated Learning in Encrypted Anonymous Personal Device Domain. Engineering Headway, Vol. 27 (pp 3-12), 23 October 2024 - 24 October 2024.
Posters
- Image Analysis and machine learning for diagnosis of Skeletal dysplasias. Child Health Technology March 2021.
Preprints
- Advances in Understanding Insect Pests Affecting Wheat and Other Cereals.
- Grants
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- SmartPest-Ghana: Exploring LLM-Driven Mobile Solutions for Climate-Smart Pest Management in Maize Farming, Innovate UK, 08/2025 - 01/2026, £29,637, as PI
- Transferring LLM-powered mobile crop protection intelligence to Argentina, RCUK, 09/2025 - 02/2026, as PI
- Knowledge Guided Multimodal AI for Automatic Quantification and Infestation Estimate of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes, Innovate UK, 06/2025 - 01/2026, £54,388, as PI
- XAI-PPN: Interpretable AI-enabled Automatic Identification Pipeline for Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures, RCUK, 06/2024 - 02/2025, £115,604, as PI
- ClimateSmart: AI-enhanced Climate-Smart Fertiliser Management for Sustainable and Resilient Farming, Innovate UK, 01/2024 - 06/2026, £338,515, as PI
- Dynamic Active Learning for Objective Qualification of Physical Activity Behaviour in Free-living Environments - Studentship, EPSRC/Industrial, 10/2021 - 09/2025, £112,892, as PI
- Development of an AI-driven Imaging Analysis System with Low-cost Equipment for Fast Onsite Quantification of Plant-parasitic Nematodes, Innovate UK, 09/2024 - 02/2025, £27,098, as PI
- PestGPT 2.0: Enhancing Mobile Intelligence with Knowledge Guided ChatGPT for Sustainable Pest Management, Innovate UK, 08/2024 - 03/2025, £42,018, as PI
- PPNMix: Knowledge Distillation empowered Automatic Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures, Innovate UK, 08/2024 - 03/2025, £42,018, as PI
- Investigating Deep Learning enabled UAV Image Analysis Models for Crop Disease Detection and Monitoring, RCUK, 07/2023 - 08/2024, £30,017, as PI
- Adaptive AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Climate-smart Pest Management to Optimise Sustainable and Resilient Farming, Innovate UK, 04/2023 – 03/2025, £160,000, as PI
- AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Sustainable Pest Management in Arable Crops, Research England, 03/2023 – 03/2024, £64,000, as PI
- AIPPN: Interpretable AI enabled Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant-parasitic Nematodes, Innovate UK, 09/2023 - 02/2023, £24,807, as PI
- PestGPT: Integrating Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT into a Mobile Solution for Sustainable Pest Management, Innovate UK, 09/2023 - 02/2023, £24,807, as PI
- Arable_ NemaRecognition: An AI- and moleuclar-driven pipeline for throughoput plant parasitic nematode recognition, BBSRC, 05/2023 – 10/2023, £75,000, as PI
- AI-AMMS: AI coupled with Aerial iMaging and Mobile Sensing, Innovate UK, 09/2022 - 09/2023, £24,954, as PI
- Investigating AI-enabled Mobility Network Models for Explaining Economic Inequities and Forecasting Recovery, Research England, 02/2022 - 07/2022, £24,900, as PI
- Integrating Visual and Context Information into a Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Wheat Pests and Soil Health, Innovate UK, 10/2021 - 03/2023, £52,377, as PI
- Farmer-centred Interoperable Mobile-Cloud System: Integrating Data from Farming Activities and Environmental Information for Sustainable Fertiliser Management, Innovate UK, 03/2021 - 02/2024, £165,681, as PI
- Isolation-Care Tele-Robotic System and its Efficient Utilization for the Prevention of Nosocomial Infection of the COVID-19, Worldwide Universities Network, 06/2020 - 06/2021, £3,333, as PI
- Clever-dREAMS: Using artificial intelligence to enhance the diagnosis of rare skeletal dysplasias in children, MRC, 12/2019 - 04/2021, £74,668, as Co-PI
- Distillation: Knowledge Distillation empowered Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Crop Pests and Soil Health, Innovate UK, 02/2024 - 01/2025 £103,214, as PI