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Staff Profile

Dr Zhuang Shao

Lecturer in Data Engineering & AI

Background

Dr. Zhuang Shao is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Data Engineering and AI with the School of Engineering, Newcastle University. His research interests are computer vision and machine learning, specifically vision-language learning, hallucination reducing, multimedia data captioning, and scalable machine learning. He has published many high-quality research outcomes, including ACM MM, T-NNLS, T-MM, T-CSVT and T-ITS.


Qualifications

Ph. D of engineering, University of Warwick, UK

 

Work Experience

  • 2023-present: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Data Engineering and AI, Newcastle University.
  • 2021-2023: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant and Project Engineer, University of Warwick.

 

Selected Awards and Honours

  • Academic Excellence 2022, Star Award, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK (Winner of 250+ PGRs).
  • The Early Career Researcher Award of the 3rd Annual Conference of Association of British Chinese Professors, 2022 (Winner out of 400+ participants).
  • Contribution to Research 2023, Star Award, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK (Winner of all 900+ PGRs and academic staff).

 

Professional Services

  • Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Independent Reviewers of impactful peer-reviewed journals: IEEE T-IP, T-MM, T-CSVT, Information Fusion, Knowledge-based Systems, IET Computer Vision, etc.
Research

Dr. Zhuang Shao is a member of Microsystems Research Group. Please view my Google Scholar research profile.

 

Research Interests

  • Applied and multi-modal AI
  • Computer Vision and Machine Learning
  • Vision-Language Learning
  • Image and Video Captioning

 

 

PGR Supervision

I always actively seek excellent and self-motivated PhD students who are passionate with computer vision and machine learning. Please feel free to send me your CV and statement via email if you’re interested. Projects (not limited to these):

Recognise, Localise, and Comment: Evaluate Written Texts in Digital Images with Vision- Language Deep Learning Models

 

 Improving Reliability in Vision-Language Models: Reducing Hallucination in Multimodal AI Systems.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • EEE2021: Computer Programming and Organisation

 

Postgraduate (MSc)

  • EEE8166 Robotics and AI (module leader)
  • EEE8097 Individual Project
  • EEE8165 Research Skills and Development for Engineers
Publications