Academic visitors

Find out about the visitors from collaborating universities and institutions that are currently being hosted by the School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Below is a list of all current and expected visitors. If you would like more information about a visitor, please talk to the Local Contact. If any details are incorrect, inform the School Office.

  • Lindsay Groves
    21/02/2020 to 20/12/2026
    Research Field: Formal Software Development, Computational Logic, Programming Language Theory, Concurrency
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • James Noble
    22/02/2022 to 31/07/2027
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Mansoor Shafi
    10/03/2023 to 05/07/2027
    Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Peter Andreae
    15/04/2023 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field: Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Ajay Kapur
    13/11/2023 to 16/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

  • Damien O'Neill
    08/08/2024 to 31/08/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

  • Tao Shi
    23/01/2025 to 31/01/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Wan-Duo Ma
    20/02/2025 to 20/02/2028
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Paul Teal - AM221
    03/03/2025 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: Signal Processing and Communications
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Harisu Abdullahi Shehu - AM221
    05/03/2025 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Georgia Dix

  • Chen Wang - CO322
    31/03/2025 to 30/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Tianlei Ma - CO322
    17/04/2025 to 15/04/2026
    Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
    Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Mohammad Nekooei
    12/05/2025 to 11/05/2027
    Research Field: Wireless Communications and Networking, Health Informatics, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Body Area Network, Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution: GoldenSet Collective
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu

  • Rita Garcia
    18/06/2025 to 18/06/2027
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: NVIDIA
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • David Pearce
    30/06/2025 to 30/06/2028
    Research Field: Programming Languages, Compilers, Program Analysis, Software Verification
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Lizhong Zhang - CO322
    01/07/2025 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: He has been focused on energy management since September 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Lei Zhu, whose research centres on evaluation methods and decision optimisation for energy technologies
    Home Institution: Beihang University
    Local Contact: Dr Heitor Gomes

  • Elena Barbera Gregori - AM421
    01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025
    Research Field: Elena is researching online learning.
    Home Institution: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Local Contact: A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist

  • Haoran Gu - CO322
    09/07/2025 to 06/07/2026
    Research Field: Evolutionary computation and learning and generative AI for multi-objective optimisation and decision making
    Home Institution: Xidian University
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Shaolin Wang
    05/08/2025 to 31/07/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Timothy Hutchings
    26/08/2025 to 26/08/2028
    Research Field: game designer and educator.
    Home Institution: Central Michigan University
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Shengluo Yang - CO322
    02/09/2025 to 31/08/2026
    Research Field: Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation
    Home Institution: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Ying Xu - CO334
    03/10/2025 to 31/12/2025
    Research Field: Evolutionary Computation
    Home Institution: Hunan University
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Rong-Kai Xu - CO322
    15/10/2025 to 30/11/2026
    Research Field: Computer Graphics
    Home Institution: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Junhua Zhu - CO322
    01/11/2025 to 31/01/2026
    Research Field: AI, Evolutionary Computation,  renewable energy
    Home Institution: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
    Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

  • Yan Xing - CO322
    18/11/2025 to 18/11/2026
    Research Field: Deep learning application in 3D Reconstruction, Image Processing, Depression detection, and solving partial differential equations; Quaternion Algebra, etc.
    Home Institution: Department of Mathematics,  Hefei University of Technology
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Jianbin Ma - CO348
    05/01/2026 to 18/12/2026
    Research Field: Genetic Programming for Classification
    Home Institution: Agricultural University of Hebei, China
    Local Contact: A/Prof Xiaoying Sharon Gao

  • Arnold Berger - AM411
    06/01/2026 to 30/03/2026
    Research Field: Prof Berger's research is in embedded systems and renewable energy and will be working with EEEN staff and give talks. Home Institution: University of Washington, Bothell
    Home Institution: Bothell University of Washington
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu

  • Dirk Wilhelm - CO334
    26/01/2026 to 25/05/2026
    Research Field: AI for automated analysis of NMR spectra
    Home Institution: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Conghui Li - CO334
    26/01/2026 to 30/03/2026
    Research Field: machine learning, image analysis, Neural Architecture Search
    Home Institution: Monash University Malaysia
    Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

  • Guenther Raidl - CO361
    16/02/2026 to 13/03/2026
    Research Field: Machine learning for combinatorial optimisation
    Home Institution: TU Wien
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Ayellet Tal - CO334
    12/04/2026 to 16/05/2026
    Research Field: Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
    Home Institution: Technion
    Local Contact: Prof Neil Dodgson

  • Bing Jia - AM416
    01/07/2026 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: mobile edge computing, wireless localization, engineering education
    Home Institution: Inner Mongolia University
    Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah