Artificial Intelligence

image of globe, with computer code patterns of countriesArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the design and use of computer systems to understand and generate human-level decision making. These systems represent, reason with, and learn from, different descriptions of knowledge and uncertainty. It is also the design and use of such computer systems, and their associated algorithms and architectures, to solve practical problems in different domains. AI research at Birmingham is organised into four themes:

 

Theme Lead

Professor Ata Kaban

Professor Ata Kaban

School of Computer Science

Ata Kaban is Professor in Computer Science working in statistical machine learning and data mining in high dimensional settings. The two major problems of her focus are the `curse of dimensionality’ and the gap between theory and practice.

 Ata Kaban is also an EPSRC Fellow (Jan 2017- Jan 2022) with the project “FORGING: Fortuitous Geometries and Compressed Learning”, and ...

Email
a.kaban@cs.bham.ac.uk

 

Theme Members

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr Ruchit Agrawal is an Assistant Professor and Head of CS Outreach at the University of Birmingham Dubai. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Oxford, where he worked on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare. He received his PhD in Computer Science under the prestigious Marie-Curie scholarship from the Queen Mary University of London. Dr Agrawal is an ...

Email
r.r.agrawal@bham.ac.uk

Dr Hyung Jin Chang

Dr Hyung Jin Chang

Associate Professor
Head of External Partnerships of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Dr Hyung Jin Chang is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He received a PhD in machine learning and computer vision at Perception and Intelligence Lab, Seoul National University, in 2013. As a post-doctoral researcher, he worked at Imperial College London and was involved in several EU projects (EU FP7 GRANT 612139 and EU H2020 GRANT 643783) ...

Email
h.j.chang@bham.ac.uk

Dr Jens Christian Claussen

Dr Jens Christian Claussen

Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science

Jens Christian Claussen is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research in nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of complex systems focuses on adaptive biological systems, especially evolution and the brain. Methods range from nonlinear dynamics and applied mathematics to statistical physics, control theory, delay equations, information theory, and ...

Email
j.c.claussen@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ahmad Ibrahim

Dr Ahmad Ibrahim

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Computer Science Programme Director

Dubai Campus

Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim currently serves as an Assistant Professor (Computer Science) and Undergraduate Programme Director at the University of Birmingham - Dubai, UAE. His research interests include the Internet of Things, Quality of Service (QoS) prediction, Web services, and Cloud and Fog computing. With regards to teaching, Dr. Ibrahim is interested in Object-oriented programming, Full ...

Email
a.ibrahim@bham.ac.uk

Dr Jianbo Jiao

Dr Jianbo Jiao

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Jianbo Jiao is an Assistant Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. Before joining Birmingham, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) group and the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the University of Oxford, working on the projects SeeBiByte and VisualAI.

His research is mainly about ...

Email
j.jiao@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sharu Jose

Dr Sharu Jose

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Sharu Jose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests lie broadly at the intersection of information theory, learning theory and machine learning. In particular, she is interested in information-theoretic generalization analysis of classical and quantum machine learning models, hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms ...

Email
s.t.jose@bham.ac.uk

Professor Mark Lee

Professor Mark Lee

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

School of Computer Science

Professor Mark Lee is a professor of artificial intelligence in the School of Computer Science. His research interests are focussed on Natural Language Processing. He is specifically interested in Sentiment Analysis of text, the automatic identification and understanding of metaphor and the effects of pragmatic inference in dialogue processing. More recently he has been investigating the ...

Email
m.g.lee@bham.ac.uk

Professor Per Kristian Lehre

Professor Per Kristian Lehre

Professor of Evolutionary Computation

School of Computer Science

Professor Per Kristian Lehre is a professor of evolutionary computation in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. For more information, please see Professor Per Kristian's homepage.

Email
p.k.lehre@cs.bham.ac.uk

Professor Ales Leonardis

Professor Ales Leonardis

Chair of Robotics at the School of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Ales Leonardis is Chair of Robotics at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre at the University of Birmingham. He is also Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljanaand an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology. He was a ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 8556
Email
a.leonardis@cs.bham.ac.uk

Dr Miqing Li

Dr Miqing Li

Lecturer

School of Computer Science

Dr Miqing Li is a lecturer at School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research is principally on multi-objective optimisation, where he focuses on developing population-based randomised algorithms (mainly evolutionary algorithms) for both general challenging problems (e.g. many-objective optimisation, constrained optimisation, robust optimisation, expensive optimisation) ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3712
Email
m.li.8@bham.ac.uk

Dr Masoumeh Mansouri

Dr Masoumeh Mansouri

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri is an Associate Professorof in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research is primarily related to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) for Robotics. She has focused on hybrid methods that integrate automated task and motion planning, scheduling, as well as temporal and spatial reasoning.

Her goal is ...

Email
m.mansouri@bham.ac.uk

Dr Leandro L. Minku

Dr Leandro L. Minku

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Leandro L. Minku is a Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Systems.

He has over 70 publications in scientific venues, book chapters, columns for practitioners and articles to the general public. His research has been funded by EPSRC.

Leandro is enthusiastic about discussing and teaching artificial intelligence, and has strong research interests in the field of machine learning, including its ...

Email
l.l.minku@bham.ac.uk

Professor Volker Sorge

Professor Volker Sorge

Chair in Document Analysis and Accessibility

School of Computer Science

Professor Volker Sorge is a Reader in Document Analysis and Accessibility for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham.

Volker has played a pivotal role in the transformation of developing web technology standards, the common practices by STEM publishers and accessibility support workers for visually impaired readers. The work by Dr Sorge has led to the implementation of ...

Email
v.sorge@cs.bham.ac.uk

Professor Mohan Sridharan

Professor Mohan Sridharan

Honorary Professor in Robot Systems

School of Computer Science

Professor Mohan Sridharan is an Honorary Professor in Robot Systems in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. Prior to that, he was a Reader in Cognitive Robot Systems in the School. He designs and algorithms and architectures to address challenges in knowledge representation and reasoning, cognitive systems, machine learning, and computational vision, as ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2793
Email
m.sridharan@bham.ac.uk

Dr Leonardo Stella

Dr Leonardo Stella

Lecturer in Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Dr Leonardo Stella is a Lecturer in Computer Science.

His research interests are on the area of Game Theory, Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality (VR), Optimisation and Control. Specifically, his research investigates approaches at the intersection of game theory and machine learning with applications to opinion dynamics, bio-inspired collective decision-making, material ...

Email
l.stella@bham.ac.uk

Professor Peter Tino

Professor Peter Tino

Professor of Complex and Adaptive Systems

School of Computer Science

Peter Tiňo is a Professor of Complex and Adaptive Systems at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of over 160 research articles in the areas of dynamical systems, machine learning, natural computation and fractal geometry. Peter has been awarded three outstanding Journal Paper of the Year awards and the Head of School's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 8558
Email
p.tino@cs.bham.ac.uk

Dr Shuo Wang

Dr Shuo Wang

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Shuo Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include data stream classification, class imbalance learning and ensemble learning approaches in machine learning, and their applications in social media analysis, software engineering and fault detection.

As the leading researcher in these areas, she proposed and ...

Email
s.wang.2@bham.ac.uk

Professor Xin Yao

Professor of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Professor Xin Yao is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. 

Professor Yao also operates ECOLE, an Innovative Training Network (ITN) for early stage researchers (ESRs) funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.766186. It is based on novel synergies between nature ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3747
Email
x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk

Dr Anis Zarrad

Dr Anis Zarrad

Associate Professor in Computer Science

Dubai Campus

Dr. Anis Zarrad is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, Dubai. He holds a BSc and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, as well as an MSc in Computer Science from Concordia University. Dr. Zarrad's research primarily revolves around mobile Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) and Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE). ...

Email
a.zarrad@bham.ac.uk