Dr Richard Jiang
Senior LecturerProfile
Dr. Richard Jiang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing & Communications at Lancaster University, UK. He currently holds a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of HEA, an Associate Member of EPSRC College, and an EPSRC RISE Connector.
Current Research
Dr Jiang's research interest mainly resides in the fields of Biometrics, Privacy & Security, Intelligent Systems, and Biomedical Image Analysis. His recent research has been supported by grants from EPSRC (EP/P009727/1), Leverhulme Trust (RF-2019-492), Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP No.8–140-2–065) and other industry/international funders. He has supervised and co-supervised over 10 PhD students. He authored over 60 publications and is the lead editor of three Springer books. He served as a TPC member and a reviewer for various international conferences and journals.
Research Grants
Face2Gene: Genetic Identity behind Deep Facial Features, PI, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2019-10 to 2020-09|Grant (GRANT_NUMBER: RF-2019-492)
Privacy-Protected Human Identification in Encrypted/Transformed Domains, PI, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon) 2017-05 to 2019-10|Grant (GRANT_NUMBER: EP/P009727/1)
A Biologically-inspired Multi-sensor and Multi-modal System for Public Security, Co-I, Qatar National Research Fund (Doha) 2016-09 to 2019-08|Grant (GRANT_NUMBER: NPRP No.8–140-2–065)
Career Details
Mar 2019 ~ now: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Lancaster University;
Aug 2015 ~ Mar 2019: Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University;
May 2013 ~ July 2015: Lecturer, Northumbria University;
Oct 2012 ~ May 2013: Research Associate, Sheffield University;
Oct 2011 ~ Sept 2012: Research Associate, Bath University;
Professional Role
A recognized EPSRC RISE Connector, 2018-2019;
Associate Member of EPSRC College, 2017~Now;
Fellow of Higer Education Assocation, 2015~Now;
Current Teaching
SCC-361 Artificial Intelligence
SCC-300 Third Year Projects
DSS-591 MSc Data Science Projects
PhD Supervisions Completed
1) Gary Storey, PhD, 2015-2018; Research Fellow, Loughborough University, 2019-2020.
2) Ranjith Kumar Dinakaran, PhD, 2016-2019; KTP Researcher, Teeside Univ, 2019-2020.
PhD Supervision Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Biomedical Image Analysis
Selected Publications
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
Social Behavioral Phenotyping of Drosophila with a 2D-3D Hybrid CNN Framework
Jiang, Z., Chazot, P.L., Celebi, M.E., Crookes, D., Jiang, R. 15/05/2019 In: IEEE Access. 7, p. 67972 - 67982. 11 p.
Journal article
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
Role for 2D image generated 3D face models in the rehabilitation of facial palsy
Storey, G., Jiang, R., Bouridane, A. 10/08/2017 In: HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY LETTERS. 4, 4, p. 145-148. 4 p.
Journal article
All Publications
Target-Aware High-Quality Video Generation via 3D CNN based Adversary Learning for Self-Driving Vehicles
01/03/2020 → 28/02/2021
Research
Face2Gene: Genetic Identity behind Deep Facial Features
01/08/2019 → 31/07/2020
Research
Privacy-Protected Human Identification in Encrypted/Transformed Domains
24/05/2019 → 23/12/2019
Research
Privacy-Protected Human Identification in Encrypted/Transformed Domains
14/05/2017 → 28/02/2019
Research
Deep Biometrics for Medical Applications
Invited talk
- DSI - Foundations
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- SCC (Data Science)