Dr Richard Jiang

Senior Lecturer

Profile

Dr. Richard Jiang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing & Communications at Lancaster University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Member of EPSRC Review College. Dr. Jiang has served as an invited Expert and Panel Member on EPSRC panels. His research interests primarily lie in the fields of Machine Learning and Neural Computation. Recently, he has been focusing on specific areas such as Artificial General Intelligence, Privacy Computing, Quantum AI, Biomedical AI, and Remote Sensing.

Dr. Jiang's research has been supported by grants from EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust, and other industry and international funds, involving over £1 million in research funding. He has supervised and co-supervised over 20 PhD students, including 9 who have successfully defended their PhDs. Additionally, Dr. Jiang has authored over 100 refereed publications and has served as the editor of several books and special issues. He actively contributes to the academic community by serving as a Program Committee member, Editorial Board member, and reviewer for various international conferences and research journals.

Selected Publications

Quantum Face Recognition with Multi-Gate Quantum Convolutional Neural Network
Zhu, Y., Bouridane, A., Celebi, M.E., Konar, D., Angelov, P., Ni, Q., Jiang, R. 28/06/2024 In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 13 p.
Journal article

Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding
Easom-Mccaldin, P., Belatreche, A., Bouridane, A., Jiang, R., Almaadeed, S. 29/02/2024 In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35, 2, p. 1-15. 15 p.
Journal article

3-D Quantum-Inspired Self-Supervised Tensor Network for Volumetric Segmentation of Medical Images
Konar, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Gandhi, T.K., Panigrahi, B.K., Jiang, R. 31/08/2024 In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35, 8, p. 10312-10325. 14 p.
Journal article

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions
Longo, L., Brcic, M., Cabitza, F., Choi, J., Confalonieri, R., Ser, J.D., Guidotti, R., Hayashi, Y., Herrera, F., Holzinger, A., Jiang, R., Khosravi, H., Lecue, F., Malgieri, G., Páez, A., Samek, W., Schneider, J., Speith, T., Stumpf, S. 30/06/2024 In: Information Fusion. 106
Journal article

User-Centric Democratization towards Social Value Aligned Medical AI Services
Zhang, Z., Jiang, R. 19/08/2023
Conference contribution/Paper

Delve into Neural Activations: Towards Understanding Dying Neurons
Jiang, Z., Wang, Y., Li, C., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 1/08/2023 In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 4, 4, p. 959-971. 13 p.
Journal article

Robust Brain Age Estimation based on sMRI via Nonlinear Age-Adaptive Ensemble Learning
Zhang, Z., Jiang, R., Zhang, C., Williams, B., Jiang, Z., Li, C., Chazot, P.L., Pavese, N., Bouridane, A., Baghdadi, A. 31/08/2022 In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering . 30, p. 2146 - 2156. 11 p.
Journal article

Private Facial Prediagnosis as an Edge Service for Parkinson's DBS Treatment Valuation
Jiang, R., Chazot, P.L., Pavese, N., Crookes, D., Bouridane, A., Celebi, M.E. 30/06/2022 In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 26, 6, p. 2703-2713. 11 p.
Journal article

Privacy-Protected Facial Biometric Verification Using Fuzzy Forest Learning
Jiang, R., Bouridane, A., Crookes, D., Celebi, M.E., Wei, H. 1/08/2016 In: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 24, 4, p. 779-790. 12 p.
Journal article

Shallow Unorganized Neural Networks Using Smart Neuron Model for Visual Perception
Jiang, R., Crookes, D. 31/10/2019 In: IEEE Access. 7, p. 152701-152714. 14 p.
Journal article

Marine Debris Detection in Satellite Surveillance using Attention Mechanisms
Shen, A., Zhu, Y., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 3/01/2024 In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17, p. 4320-4330. 11 p.
Journal article

Towards Robust Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Vision Self-attention Transformer
Mehboob, F., Rauf, A., Jiang, R., Saudagar, A., Malik, K.M., Khan, M.B., Hasnat, M.H.A., AlTameem, A., AlKhathami, M. 26/05/2022 In: Scientific Reports. 12, 12 p.
Journal article

Semantic Segmentation under Adverse Conditions: A Weather and Nighttime-aware Synthetic Data-based Approach
Kerim, A., Chamone, F., De Souza Ramos, W., Soriano Marcolino, L., Nascimento, E.R., Jiang, R. 30/09/2022
Conference contribution/Paper

Emotion recognition from scrambled facial images via many graph embedding
Jiang, R., Ho, A.T.S., Cheheb, I., Al-Maadeed, N., Al-Maadeed, S., Bouridane, A. 1/07/2017 In: Pattern Recognition. 67, p. 245-251. 7 p.
Journal article

Face Recognition in the Scrambled Domain via Salience-Aware Ensembles of Many Kernels
Jiang, R., Al-Maadeed, S., Bouridane, A., Crookes, D., Celebi, M.E. 1/08/2016 In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 11, 8, p. 1807-1817. 11 p.
Journal article

Multimodal Biometric Human Recognition for Perceptual Human-Computer Interaction
Jiang, R.M., Sadka, A.H., Crookes, D. 11/2010 In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews. 40, 6, p. 676-681. 6 p.
Journal article

Live-Cell Tracking Using SIFT Features in DIC Microscopic Videos
Jiang, R.M., Crookes, D., Luo, N., Davidson, M.W. 09/2010 In: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 57, 9, p. 2219-2228. 10 p.
Journal article

AI Democracy - Go Beyond the Clouds
15/06/2022 → 15/09/2022
Research

Target-Aware High-Quality Video Generation via 3D CNN based Self-Supervised Adversary Learning
01/03/2020 → 31/07/2023
Research

Face2Gene: Genetic Identity behind Deep Facial Features
01/08/2019 → 28/02/2021
Research

Privacy-Protected Human Identification in Encrypted/Transformed Domains
14/05/2017 → 28/02/2019
Research

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference (B2C' 2024)
Participation in conference - Academic

International Conference on AI in Healthcare
Participation in conference - Academic

The 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
Participation in conference - Academic

The Sixteenth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management
Participation in conference - Academic

IET Information Security (Journal)
Editorial activity

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (Journal)
Editorial activity

PLoS ONE (Journal)
Editorial activity

Journal of Information Security and Applications (Journal)
Editorial activity

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Journal)
Editorial activity

Sensors (Switzerland) (Journal)
Editorial activity

Electronics (Switzerland) (Journal)
Editorial activity

Deep Facial Diagnosis: Sense Deeper toward Genotypes and Phenotypes
Invited talk

Privacy issue in deep learning: a critical concern in medical data analysis
Invited talk

Journal of Information Security and Applications (Journal)
Editorial activity

The 9th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Journal)
Editorial activity

Deep Biometrics for Medical Applications
Invited talk

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (Journal)
Editorial activity

Goram Alshmrani

Goram Alshmrani

PhD student

Ziping Jiang

Ziping Jiang

PhD student

Jieyu Zhang

Jieyu Zhang

PhD student

Zhaonian Zhang

Zhaonian Zhang

PhD student

Ziyang Zhang

Ziyang Zhang

PhD student

Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals

Yongchen Zhou

Yongchen Zhou

PhD student

Yijie Zhu

Yijie Zhu

PhD student

  • Digital Health Group
  • DSI - Foundations
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • LIRA - Smart Cities and Mobility
  • SCC (Data Science)