Dr Richard Jiang

Senior Lecturer

Profile

Dr Richard Jiang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK, and a member of the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems (LIRA) Centre. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and serves on the EPSRC Peer Review College. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and novel computing paradigms, with particular interests in uncertainty-aware computing, quantum neural computing, post-quantum computing, brain-inspired computing, and trustworthy AI. His work focuses on developing intelligent systems that are not only accurate and efficient but also robust, interpretable, and reliable under uncertainty.

Dr Jiang has established an internationally recognised research portfolio supported by over £3 million in competitive funding from EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, international agencies, and industrial collaborators. His contributions include pioneering resource-efficient single-qubit and hybrid quantum neural models for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) systems, advancing scalable and practical approaches to quantum learning. He has also introduced Face2Brain, an innovative framework for non-invasive neurodegenerative assessment and explainable modelling of brain function and ageing.

Dr. Jiang has supervised and co-supervised more than 20 PhD researchers, with over 10 successfully completing their doctoral degrees, reflecting a sustained commitment to doctoral training and research capacity building. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading AI venues, including NeurIPS, CVPR, IJCAI, and AAAI, with approximately 1,500 citations per year in recent years. He also contributes actively to the international research community through editorial board memberships, programme committee service, and regular reviewing for major journals and conferences, demonstrating recognised expertise and academic leadership in artificial intelligence, novel computing and related fields.

Selected Publications

Enable Quantum Graph Neural Networks on a Single Qubit with Quantum Walk
Zhu, Y., Jiang, R., Ni, Q., Bouridane, A. 1/05/2026 In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 7, 5, p. 2496-2505. 10 p.
Journal article

Neural Differentiation in Deep Networks: A Theoretical Framework for Expressivity and Representational Diversity
Wang, B., Jiang, R. 21/02/2026
Conference contribution/Paper

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

Modeling Brain Aging with Explainable Triamese ViT: Towards Deeper Insights into Autism Disorder
Zhang, Z., Aggarwal, V., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 1/11/2025 In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29, 11, p. 8409-8422. 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

Energy Landscape-Aware Vision Transformers: Layerwise Dynamics and Adaptive Task-Specific Training via Hopfield States
Xia, R., Jiang, R. 7/12/2025 In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 38
Journal article

A Computational Model for Reputation and Ensemble-Based Learning Model for Prediction of Trustworthiness in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
Alharthi, A., Ni, Q., Jiang, R., Khan, M.A. 15/10/2023 In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10, 20, p. 18248-18258. 11 p.
Journal article

DNR-Pruning: Sparsity-Aware Pruning via Dying Neuron Reactivation in Convolutional Neural Networks
Wang, B., Jiang, R. 30/09/2025 In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 2025-September, 26 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

Alz-QNet: A Quantum Regression Network for Studying Alzheimer’s Gene Interactions
Konar, D., Sreekumar, N., Jiang, R., Aggarwal, V. 30/09/2025 In: Computers in Biology and Medicine. 196, Part C, 10 p.
Journal article

Toward Quantum Image Generation on Single Qubit Using Quantum Information Bottleneck
Zhu, Y., Aggarwal, V., Konar, D., Pashkin, Y., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 1/04/2026 In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 7, 4, p. 2321-2331. 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

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

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

British Machine Vision Conference 2026
Participation in conference - Academic

The 4th World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
Participation in conference - Academic

Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (Journal)
Editorial activity

Pattern Recognition (Journal)
Editorial activity

Fourty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26): Special Track on AI Alignment
Participation in conference - Public

The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
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

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

The 2016 6th EuropeanWorkshop on Visual Information Processing
Participation in conference - Academic

Outstanding Reviewer recognized by CVPR 2025
National/international honour

The 2025 Best Paper Award of the Year by the "Information Fusion" Journal (Elsevier)
Prize (including medals and awards)

Trad Albalawi

Trad Albalawi

PhD student

Abdulrahman Alsaluli

Abdulrahman Alsaluli

PhD student

Ali Aluthman

Ali Aluthman

PhD student

Wenyi Ge

Wenyi Ge

PhD student

Pankaj Goikar

Pankaj Goikar

PhD student

Jieyu Zhang

Jieyu Zhang

PhD student

Yongchen Zhou

Yongchen Zhou

PhD student

Yijie Zhu

Yijie Zhu

PhD student

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science
  • Digital Health Group
  • DSAIL - Foundations
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • SCC (Data Science)