Research Projects

Funded research projects:

NILAB: Northern Ireland Landscape Partnership in AI for Bioscience

  • Funder: UKRI BBSRC
  • Duration: 2024–2032
  • Summary: Interdisciplinary research training programme at the interface of AI and biological sciences.

Multimodal Video Search by Examples

  • Funder: EPSRC
  • Duration: 2021–2025
  • Summary: Developing multimodal video search models for efficient and accurate retrieval from large video archives using examples rather than keywords.

Regulatory Compliance Management

  • Funder: Invest Northern Ireland and PwC
  • Duration: 2021-2026
  • Summary: Developing AI models for regulatory compliance in finance using LLMs and knowledge graphs

VIPIRS - Virus Identification via Portable InfraRed Spectroscopy

  • Funder: EPSRC
  • Duration: 2020-2022
  • Summary: AI-driven spectroscopic detection of viruses using low-cost instruments

PhD projects:

Causality Discovery in Time Series

  • Student: Ben Redden
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Causality

Causal World Modelling

  • Student: Xiaoqian LIU (visiting)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Causality

Causal representation learning for decision support systems: non-communicable diseases management empowerment via interventions

  • Student: Tadiyos Hailemichael Mamo
  • Supervisor: Dr Mohammed Hasanuzzaman
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Causality

Food Authentication

  • Student: Lauren Gilman
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Signature

Medical Image Analysis

  • Student: Dongyue WANG (visiting)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Signature

Hypothesis Discovery for Healthy Ageing

  • Student: Levi Irvin
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – Hypothesis

Video Understanding and Retrieval

  • Student: Ji Huang
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – World Modelling

Cross-modal 3D object detection method of LiDAR-Camera fusion

  • Student: Ying Yang (visiting)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Discovery AI – World Modelling

Time Series Anomaly Detection

  • Student: Yongsheng DAI
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Regulatory Compliance Management

Question Answering for Compliance Testing

  • Student: Tianyu REN
  • Supervisor: Prof. Hui Wang
  • Research Focus: Regulatory Compliance Management