Professor Longzhi Yang

Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

I am a Professor at Northumbria University. Prior to joining the University, I worked on an EU FP7 project Integrated In Silico Models for the Prediction of Human Repeated Dose Toxicity of COSMetics to Optimise Safety (COSMOS) at Bradford University. Before that, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) in 2011.

I am currently the Director of Education at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. My research focuses on Artificial/Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity/Digital Forensics, Robotics, Planning/Scheduling, Automatic Control, Additive/Responsive Manufacturing, Decision Making Support and their real-world applications especially under uncertain environment. My research has been founded by EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, RAEng, Newton Fund, Royal Society, and other industry partners.

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Key Publications

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Leveraging ensemble clustering for privacy-preserving data fusion: Analysis of big social-media data in tourism, Iam-On, N., Boongoen, T., Naik, N., Yang, L. 1 Jan 2025, In: Information Sciences
Optimisation of multiple clustering based undersampling using artificial bee colony: Application to improved detection of obfuscated patterns without adversarial training, Maneerat, T., Iam-On, N., Boongoen, T., Kirimasthong, K., Naik, N., Yang, L., Shen, Q. 1 Jan 2025, In: Information Sciences
Safe Reinforcement Learning for Power Allocation of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in Electric Vehicles using PPO and Predictive Safety Filter, Xu, X., Zhang, L., Lai, J., Yang, L., Xiao, J. 3 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
Self-Supervised Learning for Activity Recognition Based on Datasets With Imbalanced Classes, Hamad, R., Woo, W., Wei, B., Yang, L. 27 Jan 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Ultra-short-term mooring forces forecasting for floating wind turbines with response-frequency-informed deep learning and on-site data, Kang, Y., Cheng, Z., Chen, P., Yang, L., Erfort, G., Liu, L., Hu, Z. 20 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
A Preliminary Study of Viewpoints of the Learner-Earner Journey, Prickett, T., Walters, J., Yang, L. 8 Jul 2024, ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE)
Comprehensive Botnet Detection by Mitigating Adversarial Attacks, Navigating the Subtleties of Perturbation Distances and Fortifying Predictions with Conformal Layers, Yumlembam, R., Issac, B., Jacob, S., Yang, L. 1 Nov 2024, In: Information Fusion
Detect2Interact: Localizing Object Key Field in Visual Question Answering (VQA) with LLMs, Wang, J., Zhu, M., Li, Y., Li, H., Yang, L., Woo, W. 1 May 2024, In: IEEE Intelligent Systems
Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Generative Design for Construction, Zarghami, S., Kouchaki, H., Yang, L., Martinez Rodriguez, P. 14 Jul 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction, European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3)
Fuzzy Rule Interpolation with A General Representation of Fuzzy Sets, Qu, Y., Wu, J., Wu, Z., Yang, L. 30 Jun 2024, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2024 - Proceedings, Piscataway, USA, IEEE

Current and Recent Projects

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COVER - Cooperative and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for emergency response applications, Chen, X. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), European Commission, 01/07/23 - 30/06/27, £63,601.00
Help to Grow Management 2021-2024, Wales, J. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Chartered Association for Business Scholars, 01/09/21 - 31/07/25, £2,310,820.00
SportsAid Trust KTP, Sutherland, M. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/11/19 - 31/10/21, £171,567.00

Professional Activity

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Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 21th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 19th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2019
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 8th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: BMVC 2018 - British Machine Vision Conference 2018

PGR Supervision

Hao Xu Decision Making for Offshore Wind Development through AI Start Date: 01/10/2024

Qualifications

Computing Science PhD September 18 2011
HEA Senior Fellow 2018
IEEE Senior Member 2016
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

Links

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Research at Northumbria

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