Professor Longzhi Yang

Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

I am a Professor at Northumbria University. Prior to joining the University, I worked on an EU FP7 project Integrated In Silico Models for the Prediction of Human Repeated Dose Toxicity of COSMetics to Optimise Safety (COSMOS) at Bradford University. Before that, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) in 2011.

I am currently the Director of Education at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. My research focuses on Artificial/Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity/Digital Forensics, Robotics, Planning/Scheduling, Automatic Control, Additive/Responsive Manufacturing, Decision Making Support and their real-world applications especially under uncertain environment. My research has been founded by EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, RAEng, Newton Fund, Royal Society, and other industry partners.

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Key Publications

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A Preliminary Study of Viewpoints of the Learner-Earner Journey, Prickett, T., Walters, J., Yang, L. 8 Jul 2024, ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE)
Comprehensive Botnet Detection by Mitigating Adversarial Attacks, Navigating the Subtleties of Perturbation Distances and Fortifying Predictions with Conformal Layers, Yumlembam, R., Issac, B., Jacob, S., Yang, L. 1 Nov 2024, In: Information Fusion
Detect2Interact: Localizing Object Key Field in Visual Question Answering (VQA) with LLMs, Wang, J., Zhu, M., Li, Y., Li, H., Yang, L., Woo, W. 1 May 2024, In: IEEE Intelligent Systems
Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Generative Design for Construction, Zarghami, S., Kouchaki, H., Yang, L., Martinez Rodriguez, P. 14 Jul 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction, European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3)
Fuzzy Rule Interpolation with A General Representation of Fuzzy Sets, Qu, Y., Wu, J., Wu, Z., Yang, L. 30 Jun 2024, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2024 - Proceedings, Piscataway, USA, IEEE
Geometric Features Enhanced Human-Object Interaction Detection, Zhu, M., Ho, E., Chen, S., Yang, L., Shum, H. 24 Jul 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Internal Model Control Structure Inspired Robotic Calligraphy System, Wu, R., Chao, F., Zhou, C., Chang, X., Yang, L., Shang, C., Zhang, Z., Shen, Q. 1 Feb 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Investigation on distributed rescheduling with cutting tool maintenance based on NSGA-III in large-scale panel furniture intelligent manufacturing, Wang, J., Wu, Z., Yang, L., Hu, W., Song, C., Zhu, Z., Guo, X., Cao, P. 28 Feb 2024, In: Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Investigation on distributed scheduling with lot-streaming considering setup time based on NSGA-II in a furniture intelligent manufacturing, Wang, J., Wu, Z., Yang, L., Hu, W., Song, C., Zhu, Z., Guo, X., Cao, P. 18 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
Leveraging ensemble clustering for privacy-preserving data fusion: Analysis of big social-media data in tourism, Iam-On, N., Boongoen, T., Naik, N., Yang, L. 14 Aug 2024, In: Information Sciences

Current and Recent Projects

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COVER - Cooperative and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for emergency response applications, Chen, X. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), European Commission, 01/07/23 - 30/06/27, £63,601.00
Help to Grow Management 2021-2024, Wales, J. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Chartered Association for Business Scholars, 01/09/21 - 31/07/25, £2,310,820.00
SportsAid Trust KTP, Sutherland, M. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/11/19 - 31/10/21, £171,567.00

Professional Activity

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Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 21th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 19th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2019
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 8th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: BMVC 2018 - British Machine Vision Conference 2018

PGR Supervision

Mansoureh Pezhman Pour Development of Medical Image/Video Segmentation Via Deep Learning Models Start Date: 21/02/2020 End Date: 19/07/2021
Philip Anderson Start Date: 01/03/2020 End Date: 18/11/2020
Manli Zhu Spatial Representation Learning for Human-centric Image and Video Understanding Start Date: 01/08/2022 End Date: 25/10/2024
Laura Pearson Start Date: 01/03/2020 End Date: 19/11/2020
Noe Nnko A Decentralised Secure and Privacy-Preserving E-Government System Start Date: 01/11/2017 End Date: 28/09/2021
Rebeen Hamad Sequential Learning and Shared Representation for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Start Date: 04/03/2022 End Date: 24/03/2023
Hao Xu Decision Making for Offshore Wind Development through AI Start Date: 01/10/2024
Zheming Zuo Feature Extraction and Encoding for Video Action Recognition Start Date: 06/06/2016 End Date: 17/12/2020
Yao Tan Curvature-Based Sparse Rule Base Generation for Fuzzy Rule Interpolation Start Date: 01/02/2015 End Date: 04/03/2020
Jie Li Fuzzy Interpolation Systems with Knowledge Extraction and Adaptation Start Date: 01/10/2014 End Date: 10/04/2019

Qualifications

Computing Science PhD September 18 2011
HEA Senior Fellow 2018
IEEE Senior Member 2016
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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