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Dr Shanfeng Hu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He earned his PhD from the school in 2020 and joined as a Lecturer soon after. During his PhD from 2018 to 2020, Dr Hu gained practical industry experience as a Senior Data Scientist in the financial sector. His research interests include machine learning, spectral methods, geometry, and data mining, with funded projects in advanced manufacturing (Innovate UK KTP), supply chain (Digital Catapult, Innovate UK ISCF), and digital health (EU Erasmus+, EU MSCA).
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- Proc-to-Spec: A Functorial Map of Network Processes, Hu, S. 12 Feb 2026, In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research
- Stein-type Estimator Assisted by Dynamics, Hu, S., Aslam, N. 23 Nov 2025, Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1 (KDD ’26), New York, US, ACM
- The Cost of Blindness: Indirect Rate-Distortion of Anisotropic Sources, Hu, S., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. 18 Apr 2026, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
- TOPOMA: Time-Series Orthogonal Projection Operator with Moving Average for Interpretable and Training-Free Anomaly Detection, Hu, S., Huang, Y. 25 Apr 2024, The 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2024, Springer
- A Unified Deep Metric Representation for Mesh Saliency Detection and Non-rigid Shape Matching, Hu, S., Shum, H., Aslam, N., Li, F., Liang, X. 11 Sep 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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- KTP 3-D printed Models, Hackney, P. (Principal Investigator), Hu, S. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/12/21 - 31/03/24, £195,944.00
Adewumi Ojuolape Proposed project title: Causal Discovery Using Large Language Models and Data-Driven Graph Search Start Date: 01/10/2023
- Computer Science PhD March 18 2020
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