Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology. I have research interests in AI/ML, autonomous systems, digital healthcare, and robotics.
I have published over 90 papers in leading international journals and highly prestigious conferences. I am a member of BCS, IEEE, AAAI, ACM, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I have worked on many research projects from DARPA to H2020 and with businesses and organisations, and have secured funding from a number of funding agencies including BBSRC, Innovate UK, HORIZON2020, KTP, FCDO, BEIS, and the British Council. I have taken several key research and teaching leadership roles such as Deputy REF2021 Lead UoA11, PGT Champion, CS&T Transformation Lead, Programme Director, Data Science and AI Program Lead, and have worked with interdisciplinary teams and engaged in impactful, collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects and teaching initiatives.
Teaching and supervision
I am involved in the delivery of the following modules:
Undergraduate (BSc):
- CET351 – Research
- CET300 – Computing Project
- CETM26 – Machine Learning And Data Mining – Sunderland Online
Postgraduate (MSc):
- CETM47 – Machine Learning and Data Analytics (Module Leader)
- PROMO2 – Computing Master's Project (Supervisor)
Research interests for potential research students
I welcome PhD candidates in areas of AI/ML including but not limited to the following:
- Explainable AI in digital health
- AI/ML in Argoinformatics
- AI/ML in Emissions and Netzero
- Robotics Autonomy
- Multiagent Systems
Feel free to get in touch with me.
Research
- Ahmeed Suliman Farhan – Deep Learning, Brain MRI, and Explainability
- Hayley Hatton – Symmetry-Based Decomposition for optimised parallelisation
- Muneeb Anjum – Energy Analysis, Optimization and Harvesting to Improve Mobile Robot Autonomy
- Rob Adams –Smart and Intelligent Self-Configurable Robot
- Martin Davies –Enabling real-time learning & movement adoption in Quadruped Robots using reinforcement learning.
Publications:
- Explainable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Analytics and Visualization
- Digital Health
- Autonomous Systems
- Cognitive Agents