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Dr Shanfeng Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He earned his PhD from the same department in 2020 and joined the faculty 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, causal reasoning, and mechanism design, 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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- Challenges of achieving digital transformation in manufacturing firms: the case of predictive maintenance and spare part inventory management, Skoumpopoulou, D., Toliyat, S., Ojra, A., Shokri, A., Hu, S. 2 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
- Honey authentication using AI-based pollen analysis: a UK review, Chippa, P., Hu, S., Pound, M., Yawar, S., Baniulis, D. 18 Nov 2025, In: British Food Journal
- Integrating spare part inventory management and predictive maintenance as a digital supply chain solution, Shokri, A., Toliyat, S., Hu, S., Skoumpopoulou, D. 3 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Modelling in Management
- MDC-Net: multimodal defect captioning network for surface steel defects: multimodal defect captioning network for surface steel defects, Chazhoor, A., Hu, S., Gao, B., Woo, W. 1 Oct 2025, In: The Visual Computer
- Personalized Exercise Plans for the Elderly Using KNN Based on FITT Principle, Wuttisetpaiboon, P., Wongsila, S., Sureephong, P., Aslam, N., Hu, S., Shahid, A. 9 Jul 2025, Product Lifecycle Management. Leveraging AI, Digital Twins, and Smart Technologies, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
- Up-to-Date Scoping Review of Object Detection Methods for Macro Marine Debris, Moorton, Z., Mistry, K., Strachan, R., Hu, S. 20 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
- Explainable Fault Diagnosis of Control Systems Using Large Language Models, Ojuolape, A., Hu, S. 21 Aug 2024, 2024 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Piscataway, US, IEEE
- MDC-Net: Multimodal Detection And Captioning Network For Steel Surface Defects, Chazhoor, A., Hu, S., Gao, B., Woo, W. 8 May 2024, Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
- MIMIC-Pose: Implicit Membership Discrimination of Body Joints for Human Pose Estimation, Huang, Y., Hu, S. 27 May 2024, 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Piscataway, NJ, US, IEEE
- 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
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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
- Fellowship of Higher Education Academy, UK FHEA 2022
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