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.

• Yanan Sun
  23/03/2019 to 25/03/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Lindsay Groves
  21/02/2020 to 31/03/2024
  Research Field: Formal Software Development, Computational Logic, Programming Language Theory, Concurrency
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Sue Chard
  01/03/2020 to 22/12/2023
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

• Will Browne
  30/04/2021 to 30/06/2024
  Research Field: Applied Cognitive Systems: Cognitive Robotics, Learning Classifier Systems (evolutionary computation) and Modern Heuristics.
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Robert Biddle
  02/08/2021 to 01/08/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• John Lewis
  01/11/2021 to 16/09/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• James Noble
  22/02/2022 to 23/02/2024
  Research Field: Object-Oriented Software Design
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Bryan Ng
  15/03/2022 to 28/03/2025
  Research Field: Software Defined Networking, Analytics, Big Data, Stochastic process, 802.11, SDN
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

• Rita Garcia
  18/07/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Engineering Education.
  Home Institution: Unity/WETA in NZ
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Nik Bielski
  25/07/2022 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field: AI, ML, PL
  Home Institution: University of Canterbury
  Local Contact: A/Prof Alex Potanin

• Alex Potanin
  16/08/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Cyber Security, Programming Languages
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Tony McLoughlin

• David Pearce
  01/10/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Programming Languages, Compilers, Program Analysis, Software Verification
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Frank-Peter Schilling
  01/11/2022 to 31/10/2025
  Research Field: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  Home Institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Shanshan Tang - CO322
  02/11/2022 to 01/10/2024
  Research Field: Machine Learning, Multi-task learning, Sparse learning, and Regularised regression.
  Home Institution: Northeastern University
  Local Contact: Dr Qi Chen

• Botao Jiao - CO322
  02/11/2022 to 30/11/2023
  Research Field: Stream Data Mining and Evolutionary Optimisation
  Home Institution: China University of Mining and Technology
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Huixiang Zhen - CO322
  03/11/2022 to 08/11/2023
  Research Field: Evolutionary Automated Deep Learning for Image Anlysis
  Home Institution: China University of Geosciences
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Nan Li - CO322
  14/11/2022 to 30/11/2024
  Research Field: Evolutionary Deep Learning, Neural Architecture Search
  Home Institution: North University of China
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Joaquim Jorge
  15/12/2022 to 31/12/2025
  Research Field: Computer graphics
  Home Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL)
  Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

• Zaixing Sun - CO322
  11/01/2023 to 10/01/2024
  Research Field: Every Scheduling and resource allocation
  Home Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Ken Anjyo - Overseas
  18/01/2023 to 31/12/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Edwin Singh - CO228
  26/01/2023 to 30/09/2027
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: ANU
  Local Contact: Dr Jennifer Ferreira

• Wan-Duo Ma
  01/02/2023 to 28/02/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

• Chen Wang - CO322
  06/02/2023 to 05/02/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

• Boxiong Tan - CO322
  20/02/2023 to 19/01/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

• Shihui Liu - CO322
  06/03/2023 to 17/03/2024
  Research Field: Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral image processing
  Home Institution: Dalian Maritime University
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Cheng Xie - CO322
  06/03/2023 to 05/03/2024
  Research Field: Intelligent modeling and control of dynamic systems
  Home Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Mansoor Shafi
  10/03/2023 to 09/03/2025
  Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

• Zhenshou Song - CO322
  20/03/2023 to 14/01/2024
  Research Field: Evolutionary Computation and Feature Selection
  Home Institution: Xidian University
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

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

• Tong Guo - CO348
  01/05/2023 to 30/04/2024
  Research Field: Large-Scale Global Optimization for 4D Trajectory-based Air Traffic Flow Control
  Home Institution: Beihang University, China
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Mohammad Mahdi Abdollahpour - CO335
  01/05/2023 to 31/12/2023
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Jens Dietrich

• Tim Anderson - AM422
  07/06/2023 to 28/02/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Alan Brent

• Johan Diaz Tovar - CO322
  01/07/2023 to 31/12/2023
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Alexander Doronin

• Sara Gonzalez
  01/07/2023 to 30/06/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

• Peter Lai
  03/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
  Research Field: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Stephen MacDonell
  24/07/2023 to 23/07/2026
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: AUT
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Harisu Abdullahi Shehu
  26/07/2023 to 24/06/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Georgia Dix

• Li Zhang - AM221
  01/08/2023 to 30/11/2023
  Research Field: Application of big data and artificial intelligence for IoT and computer vision
  Home Institution: Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

• Atiya Masood
  03/08/2023 to 30/11/2023
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Georgia Dix

• Wenlong Fu
  10/08/2023 to 30/03/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Martin Kropp - CO260
  21/08/2023 to 31/01/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Anslow

• Amir Narimani - CO228
  01/09/2023 to 31/10/2023
  Research Field: Learner analytics in e-Learning
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist

• Shaojin Geng - CO335
  01/09/2023 to 31/08/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Fei Ming - CO348
  01/09/2023 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field: Evolutionary computation
  Home Institution: China University of Geosciences
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Qinglan Fan
  25/09/2023 to 31/08/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Long Chen - CO348
  27/09/2023 to 30/09/2024
  Research Field: Developing multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for electric vehicle routing problems.
  Home Institution: Beijing Jiaotong University
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Xinming Shi - CO322
  01/10/2023 to 30/11/2023
  Research Field: Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning
  Home Institution: University of Birmingham
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Xinxin Xu - AM422
  01/10/2023 to 31/08/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Fangfang Zhang

• Gai-ge Wang - AM221
  16/10/2023 to 26/11/2023
  Research Field: Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, machine learning
  Home Institution: Ocean University of China
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Neal Glew - CO335
  16/10/2023 to 27/10/2023
  Research Field: Programming Languages, Software Engineering
  Home Institution: Google, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Anslow

• Yuquan Wang - CO335
  01/11/2023 to 31/01/2024
  Research Field: Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic, scheduling, combinatorial optimisation,
  Home Institution: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

• Wojciech Jarosz - AM422
  01/12/2023 to 31/07/2024
  Research Field: CMIC
  Home Institution: Dartmouth College
  Local Contact: Andrew Chalmers

• Guanqun Ai - AM221
  01/12/2023 to 30/11/2024
  Research Field: The purpose of this visit is to conduct research collaboration with ECS academics and jointly publish high-quality research papers in the area of deep reinforcement learning and combinatorial optimization.
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

• Qingshan Hou - CO348
  08/01/2024 to 07/06/2025
  Research Field: Machine learning for medical diagnosis
  Home Institution: Northeastern University
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Thomas Bensky - CO348
  13/01/2024 to 31/03/2024
  Research Field: Genetic algorithms, constraint programming, physics
  Home Institution: California Polytechnic State University
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Nuno Nunes - CO228
  29/01/2024 to 03/05/2024
  Research Field: Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
  Home Institution: University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Anslow

• Valentina Nisi - CO228
  29/01/2024 to 03/05/2024
  Research Field: Human Computer Interaction
  Home Institution: University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Anslow

• Yoonsang Lee - AM422
  01/02/2024 to 31/01/2025
  Research Field: Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Generative models for human motion synthesis Home Institution: Hanyang University
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Taehyun Rhee

• Bilian Cheng - AM422
  01/03/2024 to 31/03/2025
  Research Field: Virtual Reality, Computer-Aided Visual Design, Knitted fabric structure
  Home Institution: Jiangnan University
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

• Tianlei Ma - CO322
  01/03/2024 to 01/03/2025
  Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
  Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang