Professor Po Yang
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
School of Computer Science
Professor of Pervasive Intelligence
Deputy Director of Research and Innovation
Head of the Pervasive Computing research group
+44 114 222 1861
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School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
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- Profile
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Professor Po Yang (PY) is Professor of Pervasive Intelligence in the School of Computer Science (COM) at the University of 91Ö±²¥ (UoS), and also the Deputy Director of Research and Innovation in COM. He obtained his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Wuhan University in China, MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, and PhD in Electronic Engineering from Staffordshire University. Since 2015, he has built a research team at Liverpool John Moores University (2015 - 2019) and then 91Ö±²¥ (2019 - now).
Po has extensive research experience in pervasive and mobile intelligence, where he conducted interdisciplinary research across machine learning, pervasive computing, smart sensing, and data science. Since 2019, he has been the Principal Investigator on £1.1 million of research funding, and the Project Coordinator on over £2.6 million of research funding from InnovateUK, BBSRC, STFC, EPSRC, Research Englangd, industrial funds, etc.
He has published 100+ journal papers and 80+ IEEE/ACM conference papers, with over 5000 citations (h-index 39). This includes 43 IEEE Trans/Journal, 10 top conferences (AAAI, KDD, and CIKM), 4 ESI Highly Cited Paper, and the 2022-Best Paper of IEEE IES Society TC-II. He serves as an Associate Editor in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Journal of Biomedical Informatics and Scientific Reports
- Research interests
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Pervasive data mining, machine learning, image analysis, and precision agriculture.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- . Sensors, 24(14).
- . Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 44(29).
- . IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 70(1), 2378-2381.
- . Aerospace Science and Technology, 142, 108668-108668.
- . Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 35, 100508-100508.
- . Complex & Intelligent Systems, 1-13.
- . Measurement, 113387-113387.
- . Frontiers in Plant Science, 14.
- . Agriculture, 12(8).
- . Fractals, 30(05).
- . Complex & Intelligent Systems.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1-1.
- . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1-8.
- . Future Generation Computer Systems, 125, 831-843.
- . Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 117.
- . Future Generation Computer Systems, 114, 209-218.
- . PLoS ONE, 15(8).
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(8), 5317-5326.
- . IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.
- . Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 106, 103430-103430.
- . IEEE Access, 8, 70969-70980.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 169.
- . EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019(1).
- . IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 8.
- . Scientific Reports, 9(1).
- . Scientific Reports, 9(1).
- . ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 10(6), 65.
- . Pattern Recognition Letters.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . Future Generation Computer Systems, 100, 952-981.
- . Information Fusion.
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(9), 1806-1819.
- . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(7), 1419-1434.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(7), 4099-4110.
- . World Wide Web.
- . IEEE Access, 7, 83888-83899.
- . IEEE Access, 7, 57678-57690.
- . IEEE Access, 7, 45301-45312.
- . International Journal of Information Management, 45, 328-336.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 1384-1393.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 2299-2308.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(3), 1798-1808.
- . IEEE Access, 7, 8048-8057.
- . IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5(4), 1174-1188.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(12), 5487-5495.
- . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22(6), 1796-1806.
- . Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 154-156.
- . Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 138-153.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(5), 3594-3605.
- . Future Generation Computer Systems, 82, 256-267.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(4), 1347-1360.
- . IEEE Access, 6, 10269-10278.
- . Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 242-249.
- . IEEE Access, 6, 15202-15211.
- . Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 305-315.
- . Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 332-341.
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(1), 50-64.
- . IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 6.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 4(6), 1978-1986.
- . IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853.
- . Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 41, 132-149.
- . Neurocomputing, 220, 199-209.
- . Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 31(5), 2685-2696.
- . IET Networks, 5(5), 107-113.
- . IET Networks, 5(5), 105-106.
- . Signal Processing: Image Communication, 47, 332-345.
- . Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 28(7), 2274-2294.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2(2), 159-167.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(10), 5641-5651.
- . Computers & Graphics, 41, 72-83.
- . IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 4(1), 17-26.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 60(12), 5914-5924.
- . IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2(4), 394-401.
- . International Journal of Automation and Computing, 5(2), 152-162.
- Enhanced Conditional GAN for High-Quality Synthetic Tabular Data Generation in Mobile-Based Cardiovascular Healthcare. Sensors.
- An Effective Farmer-Centred Mobile Intelligence Solution Using Lightweight Deep Learning for Integrated Wheat Pest Management. Journal of Industrial Information Integration.
- Precision Fertilisation via Spatio-temporal Tensor Multi-task Learning and One-shot Learning. IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.
- Selecting and Evaluating Key MDS-UPDRS Activities Using Wearable Devices for Parkinson’s Disease Self-Assessment. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors.
- EGDNet: an efficient glomercular detection network for multiple anomalous pathological feature in glomerulonephritis. Visual Computer.
- Informative Relationship Multi-task Learning: Exploring Pairwise Contribution across Tasks’ Sharing Knowledge. Knowledge-Based Systems.
- Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Feature Assessment Framework for Classification of Parkinson’s Disease State from Short-Term Motor Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
- . Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
- . The Visual Computer.
- Leveraging Large Language Models and IoT for Timely and Customised Recommendation Generation in Sustainable Pest Management. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
- Integrating Visualized Automatic Temporal Relation Graph into Multi-Task Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- Unsupervised Transfer Aided Lifelong Regression For Learning New Tasks without Target Output. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- . Sensors, 24(4), 1196-1196.
- Observer-based Adaptive Finite-Time Neural Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems With Actuator Saturation Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- Lifelong Learning Meets Dynamic Processes: An Emerging Streaming Process Prediction Framework with Delayed Process Output Measurement. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
- Observer-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Finite-Time Attitude Control for Quadrotor UAVs. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
- Efficient Adaptive Deep Gradient RBF Network For Multi-output Nonlinear and Nonstationary Industrial Processes. Journal of Process Control.
- Sustainable Fertilisation Management via Tensor Multi-task Learning using Multidimensional Agricultural Data. Journal of Industrial Information Integration.
- Efficient Multi-Task Learning with Adaptive Temporal Structure for Progression Prediction. Neural Computing and Applications.
- T 2L: Trans-transfer Learning for Few-shot Fine-grained Visual Categorization with Extended Adaptation. Knowledge-Based Systems.
- Explainable Tensor Multi-task Ensemble Learning Based on Brain Structure Variation for Alzheimer's Disease Dynamic Prediction. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.
- A Deep Graph Network with Multiple Similarity for User Clustering in Human–Computer Interaction. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
- Experimental Protocol Designed to Employ Nd:YAG Laser Surgery for Anterior Chamber Glaucoma Detection via UBM. IET Image Processing.
- . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
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- . Multimedia Tools and Applications.
- A Weighted Multi-Feature Transfer Learning Framework for Intelligent Medical Decision Making. Applied Soft Computing.
- Modified GAN-cAED to Minimize Risk of Unintentional Liver Major Vessels Cutting by Controlled Segmentation Using CTA/SPET-CT. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- Activity Graph based Convolutional Neural Network for Human Activity Recognition using Acceleration and Gyroscope Data. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- AgriPest: A Large-Scale Domain-Specific Benchmark Dataset for Practical Agricultural Pest Detection in the Wild. Sensors.
- Real-time Deep Reinforcement Learning based Vehicle Navigation. Applied Soft Computing.
- The effect of multiple interventions to balance healthcare demand for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks: a modelling study. Scientific Reports.
- Automatic Detection and Classification System of Domestic Waste via Multi-model Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- Effective Multilayer Hybrid Classification Approach for Automatic Bridge Health Assessment on Large-scale Uncertain Data. Journal of Industrial Information Integration.
- . Information Systems Frontiers.
- Improving Water Pressure Measurement Using Temperature-Compensated Wireless Passive SAW Bidirectional RDL Pressure Sensor. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
Chapters
- , Internet of Things of Big Data for Healthcare (pp. 124-136). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Internet of Things of Big Data for Healthcare (pp. 52-68). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Advances in Computer Graphics (pp. 288-300). Springer International Publishing
- , Advances in Computer Graphics (pp. 96-106). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp 1-8), 30 June 2024 - 5 July 2024.
- . 2024 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) (pp 1-6), 18 June 2024 - 21 June 2024.
- . Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning
- . 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 2448-2455), 1 November 2023 - 3 November 2023.
- . Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- . 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cryptography, Informatics, and Cybersecurity (ICoCICs), 22 August 2023 - 24 August 2023.
- . Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- . 2023 IEEE 21st International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 18 July 2023 - 20 July 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 19 June 2023 - 21 June 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 19 June 2023 - 21 June 2023.
- . Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems
- . IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 17 October 2022 - 20 October 2022.
- . Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
- . 2022 IEEE 20th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 25 July 2022 - 28 July 2022.
- . 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 11 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
- . 2022 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 14 December 2022 - 16 December 2022.
- . 2022 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 14 December 2022 - 16 December 2022.
- . 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- . 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- . 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 13 December 2021 - 15 December 2021.
- . 2021 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC/CIT/DSCI/SmartCNS), 20 December 2021 - 22 December 2021.
- . 2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 20 July 2020 - 23 July 2020.
- . 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 28 October 2019 - 30 October 2019.
- Deep Learning based Automatic Approach using Hybrid Global and Local Activated Features towards Large-scale Multi-class Pest Monitoring. 2019 IEEE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (INDIN) (pp 1507-1510)
- Automatic Computer Aided System for Lung Cancer in Chest CTs Using MD-RFCN Combined with Tri-Level Region Proposal Network. 2019 IEEE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (INDIN) (pp 1377-1380)
- . 2018 11th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 2 September 2018 - 5 September 2018.
- . 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Honolulu, HI, USA, 18 July 2018 - 21 July 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
- . 2018 13th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 31 May 2018 - 2 June 2018.
- . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), 21 June 2017 - 23 June 2017.
- . 2016 9th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
- . 2016 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, 23 August 2016 - 26 August 2016.
- . 2016 IEEE TRUSTCOM/BIGDATASE/ISPA (pp 715-721)
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015.
- . Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", 3 November 2014 - 5 November 2014.
- , Vol. 8384 (pp 447-457)
- . 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 1 July 2013 - 5 July 2013.
- . 2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA), 20 January 2013 - 22 January 2013.
- . Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing - HIP '11, 16 September 2011 - 17 September 2011.
- . 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID, 16 April 2008 - 17 April 2008.
- . 2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 21 September 2007 - 25 September 2007.
- . 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 15 April 2007 - 17 April 2007.
- . IET 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007)
- Empirical Analysis of Regularized Multi-task Learning for Modelling Alzheimer’s Disease Progression. The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine
- Integrating automatic temporal relation graph into multi-task learning for Alzheimer’s disease progression prediction. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) proceedings. Istanbul, Turkey, 5 December 2023 - 5 December 2023.
- Spatio-temporal similarity measure based multi-task learning for predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression using MRI data. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine proceedings. Istanbul, Turkey, 5 December 2023 - 5 December 2023.
- Weak Regression Enhanced Lifelong Learning for Improved Performance and Reduced Training Data. Proceedings of The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2023
- Automatic Temporal Relation in Multi-Task Learning. 2023 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Robust Temporal Smoothness in Multi-task Learning. The Proceedings of Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Up-Sampling Active Learning: An Activity Recognition Method for Parkinson's Disease Patients. 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
- Modeling Alzheimer's Disease Progression via Amalgamated Magnitude-Direction Brain Structure Variation Quantification and Tensor Multi-task Learning. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
- Rolling Interventions for Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK to Reduce Healthcare Demand. Proceeding of 2020 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Tensor Multi-Task Learning for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression using MRI data with Spatio-temporal Similarity Measurement. Proceeding of 2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Industrial Informatics
Posters
- Image Analysis and machine learning for diagnosis of Skeletal dysplasias. Child Health Technology March 2021.
Preprints
- Grants
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Current Grants
- Development of an AI-driven Imaging Analysis System with Low-cost Equipment for Fast Onsite Quantification of Plant-parasitic Nematodes, Innovate UK, 09/2024 - 02/2025, £27,098, as PI
- PestGPT 2.0: Enhancing Mobile Intelligence with Knowledge Guided ChatGPT for Sustainable Pest Management, Innovate UK, 08/2024 - 03/2025, £42,018, as PI
- PPNMix: Knowledge Distillation empowered Automatic Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures, Innovate UK, 08/2024 - 03/2025, £42,018, as PI
- XAI-PPN: Interpretable AI-enabled Automatic Identification Pipeline for Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures, RCUK, 04/2024 - 03/2025, £115,604, as PI
- Distillation: Knowledge Distillation empowered Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Crop Pests and Soil Health, Innovate UK, 02/2024 - 01/2025 £103,214, as PI
- ClimateSmart: AI-enhanced Climate-Smart Fertiliser Management for Sustainable and Resilient Farming, Innovate UK, 01/2024 - 06/2026, £338,515, as PI
- Adaptive AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Climate-smart Pest Management to Optimise Sustainable and Resilient Farming, Innovate UK, 04/2023 – 03/2025, £160,000, as PI
- Dynamic Active Learning for Objective Qualification of Physical Activity Behaviour in Free-living Environments - Studentship, EPSRC/Industrial, 10/2021 - 09/2025, £112,892, as PI
Previous Grants
- Investigating Deep Learning enabled UAV Image Analysis Models for Crop Disease Detection and Monitoring, RCUK, 07/2023 - 08/2024, £30,017, as PI
- AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Sustainable Pest Management in Arable Crops, Research England, 03/2023 – 03/2024, £64,000, as PI
- AIPPN: Interpretable AI enabled Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant-parasitic Nematodes, Innovate UK, 09/2023 - 02/2023, £24,807, as PI
- PestGPT: Integrating Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT into a Mobile Solution for Sustainable Pest Management, Innovate UK, 09/2023 - 02/2023, £24,807, as PI
- Arable_ NemaRecognition: An AI- and moleuclar-driven pipeline for throughoput plant parasitic nematode recognition, BBSRC, 05/2023 – 10/2023, £75,000, as PI
- AI-AMMS: AI coupled with Aerial iMaging and Mobile Sensing, Innovate UK, 09/2022 - 09/2023, £24,954, as PI
- Investigating AI-enabled Mobility Network Models for Explaining Economic Inequities and Forecasting Recovery, Research England, 02/2022 - 07/2022, £24,900, as PI
- Integrating Visual and Context Information into a Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Wheat Pests and Soil Health, Innovate UK, 10/2021 - 03/2023, £52,377, as PI
- Farmer-centred Interoperable Mobile-Cloud System: Integrating Data from Farming Activities and Environmental Information for Sustainable Fertiliser Management, Innovate UK, 03/2021 - 02/2024, £165,681, as PI
- Isolation-Care Tele-Robotic System and its Efficient Utilization for the Prevention of Nosocomial Infection of the COVID-19, Worldwide Universities Network, 06/2020 - 06/2021, £3,333, as PI
- Clever-dREAMS: Using artificial intelligence to enhance the diagnosis of rare skeletal dysplasias in children, MRC, 12/2019 - 04/2021, £74,668, as Co-PI