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NOTE: Several PhD scholarships are open for nomination for 2024/2025 (including CSC-UoM, Manchester-Melbourne Call for Jointly PhD Awarded, A*Star/PDS/DDS/PGRTA scholarships). Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you are interested in pursuing a PhD at the University of Manchester. 

[Jan-25]: Our collaborative paper, 'ELF autoencoder for unsupervised exploration of flat-band materials using electronic band structure fingerprints,' has been accepted by Communications Physics. Special thanks to the lead authors, Dr. Qian Yang and Prof. Artem Mishchenko, for this great collaboration!

[Jan-25]: A paper authored by my visiting PhD student, Xue Liu, "Hierarchical Physics-Informed Neural Network for Rotor System Health Assessment", has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Well done, Xue!

[Dec-24]: Receive Manchester-Melbourne Call for Jointly PhD Awarded, looking forward to the exciting future collaboration with Dr Magda Montgomery from The University of Melbourne. 

[Dec-24]: Receive grant RAEng Google Deepmind placements funded by The Royal Academy of Engineering (PI: Dr. Omar Rivasplata)

[Dec-24]: Receive EPSRC Core Equipment Award funded by EPSCR as a Co-I (PI: Richard Curry).

[Dec-24]: Receive grant Developing targeted strategies for precision breast cancer prevention funded by Cancer Research UK as a Co-I (PI: Dr Andrew Gilmore).

[Dec-24]: Our lab's first group seminar took place on December 3rd, featuring a high-quality talk by Dr. Shengzhong Mao titled "Learning Visibility Attention Graph Representation for Time Series Forecasting". 

[Nov-24]: Three fully-funded (worldwide) Bicentenary PhD projects are accepted: 1)  Multimodal AI methods for spatial omics data to characterise tumour microenvironments; 2) Understanding ethnic differences in breast biology to improve prevention and early detection of cancer in Black women; 3) Investigate signalling dysregulation in diabetic heart and provide insight into precision diagnosis and treatment of HFpEF.

[Nov-24]: Welcome to apply for our fully-funded PhD project - UKRI AI Center for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD funding - "Employing Spiking Neural Networks to Unravel Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks using Spatial Transcriptomics Data" 

[Nov-24]: Our paper "Machine Learning Prediction of GAT201-Regulated Gene Expression in Cryptococcus Neoformans Using Minimal Motifs" has been accepted at the 3rd IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Online Conference (ONCON24). Great collaboration with Mr Yiwen Xing from the University of Edinburgh. 

[Oct-24]: Received two research grants funded by Innovate UK

[Sep-24]: A paper authored by my visiting PhD student, Xue Liu, has been accepted by the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification SYSID 2024. Well done, Xue!

[Sep-24]: Received funding support from ID Manchester

[Sep-24]: A paper authored by my PhD student, Haiping Liu, has been accepted by the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Well done, Haiping!

[Aug-24]: Our paper 'RobotSDF: Implicit Morphology Modeling for the Robotic Arm,' co-authored with Dr. Yusheng Yang, has been accepted by Sensors.

[Apr-24]:  Received the Reviewer Award from the Journal of Computing Open

[Mar-24]: A PhD studentship Funded by EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

[Feb-24]: A PhD studentship Funded by A*STAR PhD Programme

[Feb-24]: Funded by School of Engineering Summer Internships Programme

[Nov-23]: Manchester Cancer Research Centre Event Support Award