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 is a Fellow of HEA and a Member of EPSRC College, and served as an invited Expert and Panel Member on EPSRC panels. His research interest in general resides in the fields of Machine Learning and Neural Computation. Particularly, his recent research focuses on the specific areas such as Ethical Machine Learning, Quantum AI, Digital Health, and Remote Sensing.
Dr Jiang's research has been supported by grants from EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust, and other industry & international funds. He has supervised and co-supervised 20 PhD students including 7 defended PhDs. He authored over 100 refereed publications and was the editor of a number of books and special issues. He has been serving as a PC/Editorial member and a reviewer for various international conferences and research journals.
Research Grants
Target-Aware High-Quality Video Generation via 3D CNN based Self-Supervised Adversary Learning, PI, Huawei HIRP Grant, 2020-04 to 2021-03 | GRANT_NUMBER: HO2019041002010P279.
Face2Gene: Genetic Identity behind Deep Facial Features, PI, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2019-10 to 2020-09 | 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_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_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
Leverhulme Research Fellow, 2019;
EPSRC RISE Connector, 2018;
Member of EPSRC College, 2017~Now;
Fellow of Higer Education Assocation, 2015~Now;
Current Teaching
SCC-300 Third Year Projects
DSS-591 MSc Data Science Projects
PhD Supervisions Completed
Philip Easom-McCaldin, 2021
Ranjith Dinakaran, 2020
Ismahane Cheheb, 2019
Gary Storey, 2018
Mohamed AE Abdalla, 2017
Resheed Almotaeryi, 2016
PhD Supervision Interests
Neural Computation, Quantum AI, Biomedical Informatics, Microsystems
Selected Publications
Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding
Easom-Mccaldin, P., Belatreche, A., Bouridane, A., Jiang, R., Almaadeed, S. 17/06/2022 In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 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. 6/02/2023 In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 14 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All Publications
AI Democracy - Go Beyond the Clouds
15/06/2022 → 15/09/2022
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
Journal of Information Security and Applications (Journal)
Editorial activity
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Journal)
Editorial activity
Sensors (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
Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals
- Digital Health Group
- DSI - Foundations
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- LIRA - Fundamentals
- LIRA - Smart Cities and Mobility
- SCC (Data Science)