Team Members

Jianbo Jiao

Principle Investigator

Jianbo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, a Royal Society Short Industry Fellow, and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.

Isaac Akintaro

PhD Student (2024 -), MI v

Isaac is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on Visual Reasoning, with a background in AI and Machine Learning. He completed an MSc as a Google DeepMind Scholar, where he worked on diffusion models, specifically exploring both unconditional and conditional approaches to 2D image synthesis.

Hao Ai

PhD Student (2024 -), MI v

Hao is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on scene understanding, scene generation, and 3D geometry estimation, especially in the real-world scenarios.

Peixi Liu

PhD Student (2024 -), MI v/l/s

Peixi is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on multi-modal data analysis, integrating visual, audio, and text data. With a background in mathematics, she is also interested in applying mathematical spatial theory to improve human understanding of neural network.

Haotian Li

PhD Student (2024 -), MI v

Haotian is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on efficient representation learning from multi-modal data. He holds his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham.

Qiming Huang

PhD Student (2023 -), MI v/l

Qiming is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, working on open-world problems.

Han Hu

PhD Student (2023 -), MI v/a

Han is currently a Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Birmingham. Her research interest lies in self-supervised learning and audio-visual multi-modal learning. She received a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.

Daniel MacSwayne

PhD Student (2023 -), MI p/n

Daniel is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research focusses on self-supervised learning from multi-modal data to understand and predict the 3D physical world.

with Aleš Leonardis

Chenyuan Qu

PhD Student (2023 -), MI v

Chenyuan Qu is a Ph.D. student enrolled in the School of Computer Science, specializing in the fields of Computer Vision and Multi-model research. His primary focus centres on the development of a multifaceted generative artificial intelligence system geared towards the realms of design and advertising.

with Allsee Technologies Ltd.

Wenjin Wu

PhD Student (2023 -), MI c

Wenjin is a Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Birmingham. Her research interest is in using deep learning methods to analyze the chemical information contained in different spectra. She received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from ShanghaiTech University.

with Linjiang Chen and Aleš Leonardis

Jong Kwon

PhD Student (2021 -), MI h
@Oxford

Jong is a final year PhD student at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) at Oxford University, supervised by Jianbo Jiao and Alison Noble. He is currently working on automated quality assessment of fetal ultrasound.

with Alison Noble

Kangning Zhang

PhD Student (2020 -), MI h
@Oxford

Kangning completed a MMath degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Jesus College, Oxford. She enjoy technology, travelling, running and like to meet people that share the same interests. She is currently working on developing interpretability of self-supervised representation learning in medical image, with a focus on ultrasound image, at the IBME, Oxford.

with Alison Noble

Zareef Safdar

(BSE from University of Michigan → Master@Simon Fraser University, 2023 -), MI v

Zareef is a Master of Visual Computing student at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on synthetic data generation using game engines for training vision models.

Dongheng Lin

(Master from UIUC, 2023 -), MI v

Dongheng is currently a Master student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His primary focus lies in the realms of Feature Engineering and Representation Learning, specifically applied to Social Media Images.

Qiyue Sun

(PhD student from Shandong University, 2024 -), MI v

Qiyue is currently a visiting Ph.D. student in school of computer science at the University of Birmingham. Her research interest is video anomaly detection and understanding.