Project ADA - Team and Appointments

Andrew's background is in computational cognitive science and he has previously held academic appointments in computer science, psychology and business. His research focus is on human-AI collaboration and on how the next generation of artificial intelligence technologies can be engineered so as to work with people.

Email: A.Howes2@exeter.ac.uk
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Aline is a Professor of Natural Language Processing and the Director of our Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) which brings together leading interdisciplinary researchers from across all of Exeter’s Departments, Colleges and Institutes, to drive exciting new research and education.

Email: a.villavicencio@exeter.ac.uk
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Tarje trained as a (geo-)physicist and his research interests span a wide range of wave phenomena, as related to earthquakes and other vibrational sources, planetary interiors, numerical methods and supercomputing, machine learning, inverse theory, data science, wildlife monitoring, complex ecosystems, soils and sustainable agriculture, the cryosphere, and solar system science.

Email: T.Nissen-Meyer@exeter.ac.uk
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Anne is the lead of the Privacy AnaLytics (PAL) Group. Her research interests include:

• Privacy Analytics
• Usable (Human-Centered) Security and Privacy
• Green-IT Security/Privacy
• Security Education

Email: A.V.Kayem@exeter.ac.uk
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Dr Khurram Bhatti specialises on information security with a particular focus on Microarchitectural security vulnerabilities.

Email: M.Bhatti3@exeter.ac.uk
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Lu's research focuses on:

• Trustworthy and explainable AI
• Self-learning digital twins
• Light-weighted AI - resource-constrained devices
• Edge Enhanced AI
• Federated learning for protecting data privacy, data security, data access rights and access to heterogeneous data
• Sustainable AI

Email: L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk
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Yunxiao's research interests focus on:

• Cyber ecurity
• Optimisation
• Game theory
• Information theory, with an extension into machine learning.

Email: Y.Zhang12@exeter.ac.uk
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David's research interests are on the interface between multi-objective optimisation, evolutionary computation, explainable AI, and hyper-heuristics.

Email: D.J.Walker2@exeter.ac.uk
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Saif's research interest is in the general area of Machine Learning, with a particular focus on Machine Learning applications to security.

Email: S.M.Y.Alzubi@exeter.ac.uk
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Mohammed's current research interests are concerned with the development of novel artificial intelligence (statistical machine learning and deep learning) solutions, with the overall ambition to assist human investigation in healthcare and data science applications. More precisely, he is most interested in carrying out research on different theoretical foundations in computer vision and machine learning such as:

• Deep learning and statistical machine learning.
• Explainable AI for healthcare.
• Energy functional optimisation for computer vision tasks.
• Machine teaching and active learning.
• Uncertainty quantification.
• Self-supervision and transfer learning.
• Static and dynamic deep ensemble.
• Multimodal learning.

Email: M.Abdelsamea@exeter.ac.uk
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Hang's research interests encompass the following areas:

• Integrating Large Language Models and knowledge structures (e.g., ontologies).
• Linking between natural language texts and ontologies using machine learning.
• Healthcare text analytics applications.

Email: H.Dong2@exeter.ac.uk
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Yanda's current reserch interest mainly focuses on:

• Medical Image Analysis (Cardiovascular, Neurodegenerative, Diabetes, Ophthalmology, etc.) - CT, MRI, Ultrasound, X-ray, OCT, Colour Fundus, etc.
• Vision Foundation Models, Multi-modality Models (LLM + Vision)
• Data-Efficient Deep Learning (Semi/Weakly)
• Trustworthy AI (Uncertainty Quantification, Federate Learning)
• Geometric Deep Learning (Graph Neural Network)

Email: Y.M.Meng@exeter.ac.uk
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