Scalable AI : Research Themes

Stephen McGough
Amir Atapour Abarghouei
Stephen Bonner
Phil Jackson

Purpose of this page

This page lists the members of the Research sub-group Scalable AI and their associated research interests. These interests are not targeted at a particular level, and can be considered (with appropriate levelling) towards undergraduate, MSc and PhD level. Please make contact if you're interested.
Also listed here is a link to Google Scholar Profiles, which will give you some idea of the sorts of work were interested in.

Dr Andrew Stephen MCGough

Main focus: Machine Learning
Main interests within this focus: Deep Learning
Other areas of interest: Green Computing, Simulation, Security
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ZgtwW-0AAAAJ&hl=en
Personal web pages: Stephen McGough

Some keywords: Image Recognition (for science), Activity Recognition (for science), Applied Machine Learning, Computer Vision (for science), Data Science, Decision Making, Digital Twins, e-Science, Energy Efficient Computing, Graphs and AI, Modelling and Simulation, Scalability of AI, Computer Security (AI4Security)

Some potential ideas for Undergraduate / MSc projects:
  • Skin vision AI: Machine learning for the diagnosis of skin cancer
  • Deep Learning Diagram to Code
  • Does dimensional reduction affect clustering?
  • GANs and tracking of Larva
  • Identification of Similar Images using Autoencoders
  • Identifying defects in 3D printings using GANs
  • Using Deep Learning to identify elements on a page

Dr Amir Atapour Abarghouei

Main focus: Machine Learning
Main interests within this focus: Deep Learning
Other areas of interest: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Monocular Depth Estimation, Semantic Segmentation, Style Transfer, Autonomous Driving, Robotic Navigation, Natural Language Processing, Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Natural language generation, Anomaly Detection, Domain Adaptation and Data Augmentation
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1PuXgDoAAAAJ&hl=en
Personal web pages: https://northerncloudcrimecentre.org/2019/04/amir-atapour-abarghouei/

Some keywords:

Stephen Bonner

Main focus: Machine Learning
Main interests within this focus: Deep Learning
Other areas of interest:
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NhwYLnUAAAAJ&hl=en
Personal web pages:

Some keywords:

Phil Jackson

Main focus: Machine Learning
Main interests within this focus: Deep Learning
Other areas of interest:
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=PJIQyL8AAAAJ&hl=en
Personal web pages:

Some keywords: