Dr Richard Jiang
Senior LecturerProfile
Dr. Richard Jiang is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing & Communications at Lancaster University, UK. Previously, he was a senior lecturer (2013-2019) in the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is a Fellow of HEA, an Associate Member of EPSRC College, and a recognized 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 Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP No.8–140-2–065), EPSRC (EP/P009727/1), Leverhulme Trust (RF-2019-492) 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 TPC member and the reviewer for various 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-300 Third Year Projects
SCC-361 Artificial Intelligence
PhD Supervisions Completed
1) Ranjith Kumar Dinakaran, PhD, 2016-2019; KTP Researcher, Teeside Univ, 2019-2020.
2) Gary Storey, PhD, 2015-2018; Research Fellow, Northumbria University, 2018-2019.
PhD Supervision Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Biomedical Image Analysis
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
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- SCC (Data Science)